Archaeological and natural history hiking trail Lübeck
The archaeological and natural history hiking trail in the Waldhusener Forest in the northeast of Lübeck is a 5.5 km long hiking trail that was established in the 1990s. 21 stations show archaeological and natural history evidence from the Neolithic Age to the first years after the Second World War .
Its highlights include the Pöppendorfer ring wall and the Pöppendorfer large stone grave . In addition, the path leads u. a. along early modern boundary stones and the foundations of a refugee camp set up there after the end of the Second World War. The individual stations are explained on boards from the Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation and the City Forestry Office.
As a note at the beginning of the hiking trail revealed, the maintenance of the hiking trail and its stations by the Hanseatic City of Lübeck had meanwhile been discontinued for cost reasons, but was resumed after a communication in the December 2018 meeting of the Lübeck citizenship's cultural committee.
Stations
The overview map at the beginning of the hiking trail refers to the following stations:
- Waldhusener forest history (with information about the forest protection and maintenance measures introduced in the 18th century to avoid wood shortages)
- Hohlweg - old path system (changed in the 19th century, a map shows the old and the new paths)
- Boundary stone no.29 (based on the contract signed in 1804 to mark the state border between the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg )
- Lübeck and Ostholstein - area history
- Deep wells of the waterworks
- Natural beech forest - forest management
- Nine barrows on the "Herrenberg" (from the younger Bronze Age )
- The Ovendorfer Fußsteig
- The Pöppendorfer Herrenmoor
- The stone grave in Steinhusen
- A "souvenir" from the end of the Ice Age - The Os (long, wall-like range of hills)
- The old farm road to Pöppendorf - Ein Redder
- The Pöppendorfer ring wall
- The settlement in front of the ring wall
- The Pöppendorfer Bauernmoor
- Slavic barrows on the Pöppendorfer Hals (from the 8th to 10th centuries)
- Three burial mounds from the Bronze Age (with information on weapons, tools, jewelry and musical instruments)
- Two barrows from the Bronze Age (with information on settlements, agriculture and trade in the younger Bronze Age)
- The border between Kücknitz and Pöppendorf (information about the history of the area and the small border walls and the gate passage)
- Philosophenweg and Philosophengrund (after the Lübeck poet Emanuel Geibel (1815-1884), who walked here a lot and is said to have written two of his poems here)
- The Pöppendorf camp (1945–1951)
