Urwaldsteig Edersee

Signposts - Urwaldsteig Edersee : white UE on a blue background on the steep slope of the Edersee

View from the Kahlen Hardt ( NSG ) to the Edersee with the campsite south of Basdorf on the reservoir and signposts and the like. a. from the Kellerwaldsteig

The Urwaldsteig Edersee is an approximately 68 km long circular hiking trail in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg , which leads on mostly narrow paths on steep slopes around the Edersee reservoir on the Eder . His signpost is a white UE on a blue background.

description

The Edersee Urwaldsteig is located in the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park and, in stages, also in the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park . It runs south of the Edersee through the national park with its red beech forests and north of the reservoir through dry oak forests. The trail is divided into six stages that can be hiked in three to six days; There are also ten short circular routes that branch off from the main path for day-trippers. In some sections it runs together with the Kellerwaldsteig and between Waldeck Castle and Uhrenkopf together with the Habichtswaldsteig .

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  Signposts for several hiking trails on the climb

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  Gnarled trees on a steep slope on the path

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  Oblique oak on the path

Stage overview

The six stages of the Urwaldsteig Edersee are:

1. Waldeck district Waldeck - Uhrenkopf - information center of the pumped storage power plant Waldeck near Hemfurth (approx. 8 km)
2. Information center of the pumped storage power plant Waldeck - Upper Waldeck II basin - Bringhausen (approx. 11 km)
3. Bringhausen - past Asel -Süd - Kirchlotheim (approx. 13 km)
4. Kirchlotheim - Kellerwald National Park Center - Herzhausen - Asel (approx. 11 km)
5. Asel - Hünselburg - Scheid peninsula (to Nieder-Werbe ) (approx. 11 km)
6. Scheid peninsula - past Nieder-Werbe - Waldeck district of Waldeck (approx. 14 km)

Panoramic view from Schöner Aussicht near Basdorf to the Edersee with love island (left) and Bringhausen (center) as well as the Kellerwald (back)

literature

• Thorsten Hoyer: Kellerwaldsteig with Urwaldsteig Edersee , OutdoorHandbuch, Volume 202, from the series The path is the goal , 2nd edition, Conrad Stein Verlag, Welver, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86686-449-8 .
• Edersee Touristic GmbH: Urwaldsteig Edersee brochure , hiking guide, 5th edition 2011, cognitio communication & planning, publishing house, Niedenstein, ISBN 3-932583-14-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage (urwaldsteig-edersee.de)

Web links

Commons : Urwaldsteig Edersee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Critical experience report . Archived from the original on November 19, 2012.
• GPX data for the Urwaldsteig and route guidance on OSM map