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View of Wildenburg – Kaisergarten Rest Area loop from Stipshausen

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Mountain biking trails

Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate

Landkreis Bad Kreuznach

Landkreis Birkenfeld

Stipshausen

View of Wildenburg – Kaisergarten Rest Area loop from Stipshausen

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View of Wildenburg – Kaisergarten Rest Area loop from Stipshausen

02:13

30.6km

440m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 30, 2026

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1.98 km

Romantic stream!

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Great view

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4.39 km

View of Wildenburg

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Nice view to enjoy

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12.9 km

The house with 15 rooms, built around 1895 by Richard Haniel (1865–1937) as a hunting lodge, moved in 1955 from the widow Ulla Haniel to the Protestant Church in Germany. However, this could not do anything with the premises, as they did not seem suitable for a children's home or an old people's home. It therefore granted the then Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, who had headed the aid organization of the Protestant Church from 1949 to 1954, a right of use. This gave him access to the house in the Idarwald and invited political friends to state hunts and other festivities. Helmut Kohl, Franz-Josef Strauss and other prominent politicians in the country came to the Hunsrück to hunt. At the end of the 1960s, the hunting lodge hit the headlines nationwide, as the transfer to the Protestant Church is said to have been in connection with tax evasion by the widow Haniel.
While newspapers close to the CDU called the house a "ski lodge" at the time, social democratic newspapers spoke of a "castle-like villa" or a "feudal hunting lodge with palatial dimensions," wrote Der Spiegel at the time. However, the tax offense of the widow Haniel was already statute-barred when it was discovered. In 1979 the house became the property of a board member of the jam manufacturer Schwartau. After it had belonged to an entrepreneur in the plastics industry for three years, the Belgian brothers Fruytier (wood industry) bought the building in 2001. The Belgian Fruytier Group, which also owns the sawmill in Hochscheid, manages the Vierherrenwald. In this context, the company hit the headlines in 2011 for the questionable clear-cutting of a large part of the forest.
Current condition (9/2021): The building seems to be inhabited from time to time. The outdoor facilities near the building are well maintained, but the adjacent park is overgrown.

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