Graf-Engelbert-Weg

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The Graf-Engelbert-Weg is a main hiking trail marked for the first time in 1935 in the association area of ​​the Sauerland Mountain Association and, like all the other main hiking trails, has the white St. Andrew's cross X as a signpost , extended by the number 28 at intersections.

It leads with a total length of 111 kilometers from Hattingen an der Isenburg past Köllershof , the Felderbachtal , the half-timbered village of Alter Schee , Schwelm with Haus Martfeld and Schwelmequelle , the Spreeler Mühle , Remlingrade , Radevormwald , the Bevertalsperre , the Neyetalsperre , Wipperfürth , Fähnrichstüttem , Remshagen , Engelskirchen , Drabenderhöhe , Benroth , Berkenroth and Bladersbach to Schladern an der Sieg .

The last section of the Graf-Engelbert-Weg leads from Drabenderhöhe via Oberbach, Herftenrath, Kurtenbach , Niederbreidenbach , Grunewald , Lindscheid , Benroth and Berkenroth over the Nutscheid ridge and on via Geilenkausen and Bladersbach , on the Galgenberg and on the "Drei Eichen", the Windecker Hochgericht in the Middle Ages, past Höhnrath to Schladern (stop of the RE9 and S12). The route length is approx. 25 km.

The hiking trail is named after Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne and Count Engelbert II von Berg, who was murdered in 1225 by his nephew Friedrich von Isenberg (lord of Burg Isenberg and Burg Nienbrügge) next to a Gevelsberg ravine several kilometers away from the hiking trail .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '49.6 "  N , 7 ° 10' 50.1"  E