Hünenweg
Hünenweg is currently a 150 km long hiking trail from Osnabrück to Meppen . It should lead to Groningen in 2020 . The hiking trail is maintained by Emsland-Touristik and the Osnabrücker Land Tourist Association. It got its name from the numerous large stone graves along the way , which are colloquially known as "Hünenbett".
The path runs in the area of the Megalithic Culture Road . The planned extension to the Netherlands and the expansion of the Hünenweg follow the goals set by the project "Megalithic Routes", a cultural route of the Council of Europe . The “ TERRA.vita ” and “ De Hondsrug ” geoparks are cooperating on this project. Both institutions want to "enhance" their award by UNESCO through the "anchor project Hünenweg / Hondsrugpad". There is already a “Hünenweg connecting path”, which is the same route as the Fehnweg and runs from Meppen to Twist . The trail is supervised by the Wiehengebirgsverband Weser-Ems .
By shifting the emphasis from a connection for car traffic (which is the “ street of megalithic culture”) to a route for visiting monuments by bike or on foot, environmentally responsible tourism is promoted on the new Hünenweg.
Until 2017, the term Hünenweg referred to a 195 km long hiking trail that ran from Osnabrück to Papenburg in Emsland (see the lines on the photo on the right from 2010). A branch line of the Hünenweg (from Haselünne to Emmen ) already led to the Netherlands before 2017 .
The signet of the Hünenweg is a small “h” in blue on a yellow background. On sections of the route on which the Friesenweg also runs (see below), a large white "F" is often attached next to it.
course
The main route runs through the area of the former government district of Osnabrück in western Lower Saxony in a north-northwest direction. It starts in the valley of the rabbits in the center of the big city Osnabrück near the town hall . Stops are the Schleptruper Egge , Bramsche , Ankum , Berge , Stift Börstel , Herzlake and Haselünne . The path leads through the mountains of the Osnabrück region before reaching the North German Plain . Within this level the path leads back to the Hase several times and crosses the moor and geest landscapes of the Osnabrücker Land and the Emsland .
Hikers roam the Nettetal, the Wiehen Mountains and the moorlands of the Emsland .
Until 2017
From Haselünne, the Hünenweg ran until 2017 via Lähden , Sögel , Börger and Surwold to Papenburg . The route leading via Meppen to Emmen in the Netherlands (province of Drenthe ) was considered a secondary route until 2017.
Immediately behind Papenburg is the East Frisian district of Leer . The Ostfriesland hiking trail leads there and on to the North Sea coast near Bensersiel , which will be the extension of the Hünenweg until 2017. The Ostfriesland hiking trail is still looked after by the Wiehengebirgsverband Weser-Ems.
As of 2017
2016 decided the Emsland district , the co-financing of the megalithic path to adjust because his hope of Hünenweg could quickly into a predicate trail are converted, will initially disappointed needed because for this purpose, the proportion fixed distances of 35 to 15 percent would have to be reduced and not property owners (especially farmers) were prepared to make the appropriate areas available for re-routing to the extent required. From this, representatives of the Emsland district drew the conclusion in April 2016 that it would make more sense for the district to invest the money in the expansion of the Haselünne - Papenburg section of the Emsland route , a long-distance cycle route.
In 2018, the district of Emsland resumed its function as a cooperation partner of the district of Osnabrück, after it had succeeded in reducing the proportion of paved roads to 22 percent. The Hünenweg is to be connected to the " Hondsrugpad ", an existing long-distance hiking trail in the Netherlands that needs to be expanded. The entire route from Osnabrück to Groningen should be over 200 km long. However, since the TERRA.vita Geopark is not responsible for low-lying, flat areas according to the statutes, it is unclear who should plan and maintain the hiking trails in the river meadows and in the moorland areas of the Emsland (and possibly the northern section of the "old" Hünenweg), after the Wiehengebirgsverband is no longer responsible for it.
On May 1, 2018, the "completely renewed" Hünenweg on the Giersfeld stone grave path was officially opened.
Deviating from the definition of the Osnabrücker Land tourism association and the declaration of the Wiehengebirgsverband, according to some recent publications, the Haselünne - Papenburg section still belongs to the Hünenweg in 2018, according to fernwege.de now 184.5 km from Osnabrück to Papenburg, without taking into account the former branch line via Meppen is long. The state of Lower Saxony still defines the Hünenweg as a hiking trail from Osnabrück to Papenburg, but gives the distance as 215.64 km.
Hünenweg and Friesenweg
In 1937, the Friesenweg from Osnabrück to Papenburg was marked for the first time. The photo on the right shows the distance between Osnabrück and Papenburg, which hikers cover on the Friesenweg, as 182 km. The trail was brought into being by organized hikers with close ties to their homeland. It was named "Friesenweg" because it led from Osnabrück to the edge of the Frisian settlement area . Since the marketing of the Hünenweg began in 2006, according to Josef Grave, there has been “a very unusual 'displacement competition' on trees, on hiking boards and in the range of travel and hiking guides, tourist catalogs and leisure brochures, in the press and on the Internet” . The result is that the Friesenweg has never ceased to exist, but has "disappeared" in the minds of many people.
literature
- Hünenweg long-distance hiking trail . Esterbauer. 2009. ISBN 978-3-85000-503-6
- Josef Grave: From Friesenweg to Hünenweg - A main hiking trail through the ages . In: Emsland yearbook. Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund , vol. 55 (2009), pp. 291–322. ( online )
Web links
- Presentation of the Hünenweg (Osnabrück - Meppen 2018)
- Hünenweg in the Osnabrück region
- Description and GPX track to the Hünenweg (Osnabrück - Papenburg 2016)
- De Hondsrug. UNESCO Global Geopark: Master Plan 2017-2027 . Dutch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hünenweg . osnabruecker-land.de
- ^ Wiehengebirgsverband Weser-Ems eV: The Hünenweg
- ↑ TERRA.vita Nature and Geopark: Cooperation between the UNESCO Global Geoparks De Hondsrug (NL) and TERRA.vita (D) . 20th July 2018
- ↑ State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony (LGLN): Fehnweg: From Meppen to Twist .
- ↑ Alexandra Lüders: Opening in Giersfeld - the completely renewed "Hünenweg" leads via Ankum to Meppen . noz.de , May 1, 2018
- ↑ Recreatieschap Drenthe: Verkenning ontwikkeling Hünenweg-Hondsrugpad . 2017 (Dutch)
- ↑ TERRA.vita Nature Park: Short view of the trail . (Course of the Hünenweg in the city and in the district of Osnabrück)
- ↑ Georg Hiemann: Hünenweg planned for 2014 - 208 kilometers long hiking trail in the Emsland . noz.de , September 17, 2013
- ↑ Ludger Jungeblut: Emsland district no longer invests in Hünenweg . noz.de , April 14, 2016
- ↑ Day tour Papenburg - Haselünne . outdooractive.com
- ↑ Alexandra Lüders: Opening in Giersfeld - the completely renewed "Hünenweg" leads via Ankum to Meppen . noz.de , May 1, 2018
- ↑ De Hondsrug. UNESCO Global Geopark: The Hondsrugpad is a long distance walk to the Hondsrug Unesco Geopark
- ↑ Alexandra Lüders: The completely renewed "Hünenweg" leads via Ankum to Meppen . noz.de. 1st May 2018
- ↑ The Hünenweg - (Friesenweg): length and walking times . fernwege.de
- ^ State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony (LGLN): Hünenweg, from Osnabrück to Papenburg .
- ↑ Josef Grave: From Friesenweg to Hünenweg - A main hiking trail through the ages . In: Emsländisches Jahrbuch (Ed .: Emsländischer Heimatbund). Vol. 55 (2009), p. 291 (292) ( online )