Werratal
Fantastic things:
The valley boasts charming half-timbered towns and districts such as Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Großalmerode, Eschwege, Witzenhausen, Wanfried, and many more. Numerous fortresses, castles, and fortified lookout towers (e.g. Burg Ludwigstein, Boyneburg Ringgau, Tannenburg Nentershausen)
Lookout towers at e.g. Bismarckturm Eschwege, Heldrastein, Plesseturm Wanfried, Bilsteinturm Großalmerode.
Unusual museums (e.g. featuring tin figures, tobacco, glass and ceramics, salt works, tropical greenhouse, visitor coal mine pit "Gustav", forest imp house, adventure park Ziegenhagen, and mining museum.
Traces of the former inner German border, for instance the border museum Schifflersgrund, and Wanfried museum.
Enchanting places:
The Hohe Meissner mountain massif is considered the home of Mother Hulda. The whole region is dotted with places referring to this well-known mythical figure of fairy tales and sagas. In the cities and various districts there are other sagas and legends which are frequently represented by a fairytale figure.
Up on the Hohe Meissner (see description at www.naturpark-mkw.de)
• Mother Hulda Pond with figure of Mother Hulda
• Bathing chamber
• Mother Hulda chair
• Kitzkammer ("Cat Cave")
• Calf
• Hohlstein/Hilgershäuser Höhle (cave)
• Hollesteine (Hulda rocks)
• Todstein/Abteröder Bär
• The fabled well ("Goldmarie-Brunnen") in Meissner-Vockerode
• Boyneburg ruin (Babarossa)
• Confirmation church of Wilhelm Grimm in Großalmerode
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