Nello Hut Parking Area – Heldenstein Forester's Lodge loop from Kesselberg

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Nello Hut Parking Area – Heldenstein Forester's Lodge loop from Kesselberg

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Nello Hut Parking Area – Heldenstein Forester's Lodge loop from Kesselberg

01:32

12.4km

340m

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Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: September 25, 2026

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Your route passes through a protected area

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Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord

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23 m

Nello Hut Parking Area

Highlight • Parking

One of several free parking spaces here.

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3.50 km

Frankenfelsen and Frankenburg Ruins

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Natural monument and ruin of a rock castle. Only very little received.

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4.93 km

View of Burg Meistersel and the Palatinate Forest from Covered Picnic Area

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Here you will not get wet when resting in the rain.

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5.61 km

Ritterstein No. 241 – Friedrich Bender's gravestone at Benderplatz

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This is one of over 300 knight's stones of the Palatinate Forest Association.
However, at first glance it is hardly recognizable as a knight's stone (no golden yellow inscription, no PWV abbreviation), as this is the original gravestone of Friedrich Bender (1869 - 1932), who was moved here from the Edenkoben cemetery to the Bender stone in 1984. Placed and set up.
The inscription reads: "Friedrich Bender / senior teacher / born August 21, 1869 / died November 24, 1932 / founder of the Palatinate Forest Association Edenkoben".
Source: kuladig.de/Objectansicht/KLD-272306

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6.72 km

Monuments at Hauptschanze I and the Schänzel

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On the slopes of the riser head was the Battle of the Revolutionary Wars 1793-1797. Here at the riser head a Prussian contingent - unsuccessfully - opposed the French troops. Because the Prussians had built smaller fortifications on the mountain slope, there are nine knightly stones here, which are maintained and kept in order by the PWV Palatinate Forest Association.

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6.73 km

Ritterstein No. 62 – Main Redoubt I

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7.36 km

Ritterstein 66: Barricade in front of Redoubt I

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This is one of the over 300 Rittersteine (knight stones) of the Pfälzerwald-Verein. It is located at the end of a steep path and points to a fortification (= Verhau) that was built in front of a redoubt (here: "Hauptschanze I"). To the right in front of the Ritterstein is an old (boundary?) stone.

"During the First Coalition War, repeated fighting took place on the Steigerkopf in 1794 and 1795. During this time, the Steigerkopf was developed into a strong fortification. [...] The two rampart-like embankments and ditches are among the well-preserved redoubt relics on the Steigerkopf. They are traceable along the Schänzelstraße in an easterly direction (towards Edenkoben) almost continuously up to the Verhau of redoubt IV."
Source (literally quoted) and further information: kuladig.de/Objektansicht/KLD-276828

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7.59 km