The best walks and hikes around Groß-Rohrheim

Rottensteine delimit the area of responsibility of the inhabitants of certain places for dike monitoring.

On August 4, 2018, a new project area for the Auerrind project was inaugurated in the nature reserve „Hammer Aue“ in Groß-Rohrheim as part of a festive ceremony. With the support of private donors, the Bergstraße district, the higher nature conservation authority, the municipality and the local heritage association Heimatverein Groß-Rohrheim, as well as the Förderkreis Große Pflanzenfresser im Kreis Bergstraße e.V., a small breeding group of the Auerrind project will initially be established on ten hectares and will ensure an increase in biodiversity in the areas. As part of the inauguration ceremony, the first two heifers were moved to the project area; the number of animals is to be increased to a total of four over the next four weeks.

The little house is still well preserved, but unfortunately the bell is missing.

Myriameter stones were placed around 1870 during the Rhine survey every 10 km on the right and/or left bank. After the straightening of the Upper Rhine, the Rhine Central Commission of the Rhine riparian states decided in 1863 to survey the Rhine from the Mittlere Brücke in Basel to the mouth of the Rhine. Survey markers, the myriameter stones, were erected every 10,000 meters. -->Very good Wikipedia article. and Wikimedia Commons. Usually, they bore a continuous Roman numbering on the river side, below it the height above the Amsterdam gauge. The Hessian stones were an exception; on the river side, only the distance from Basel was given in kilometers (Arabic numerals). On the land side, the distances to Basel and Rotterdam can be read, and on the sides, the distances to or from the state border. There were inconsistencies: at the Baden-Hessian border near Lampertheim and at the Hessian-Prussian border near Bingen, kilometer marker 447 was counted with full kilometers, although about 340 m or 480 m were still missing to the full kilometer: the "short kilometers". In 1939, it was decided to start the Rhine kilometer marking at the middle of the Alte Brücke in Konstanz. The bridge in Basel has been at kilometer 166.66 since then. Each full river kilometer was marked with a large rectangular white sign with black numerals, the 500 m point with a smaller sign with a cross. Narrow signs with the numerals 1-4 and 6-9 denote the intermediate 100-meter points. Before or behind these signs, survey markers are often/mostly attached. These can be hectometer stones of various shapes, but also, for example, metal markers in the ground. According to the Bingen Water and Shipping Authority, the myriameter stones still serve as height control points today.

On foot, I recommend walking on the dam.

The Landdammschleuse is a historic hydraulic structure. It serves as part of the flood protection and drainage system in the Hessian Ried landscape to regulate the water level of the Langen Graben. The lock is sometimes mistakenly assumed in the literature to be the Rheinschleuse, but it is an important element of inland drainage (inland lock).

The new 12-kilometer long Geopark trail starts and ends in the municipality of Groß-Rohrheim at the town hall. The information board describes the history and the path. Then just follow the markings with the yellow L on a black background.

The new 12-kilometer-long Geopark Trail begins and ends in the municipality of Groß-Rohrheim at the town hall. An information board can also be found here.