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Jct. Circular Route 4 / At the upper end of the avenue, we briefly continue on solid ground before a signpost »Circular Route 4« or »Kyffhäuser Route« leads us half left into the forest. / Photo: A chestnut avenue accompanies the path above Bad Frankenhausen. © Bergverlag Rother GmbHPhoto: Sabine Gilcher, Rother Bergverlag
The southern Kyffhäuser edge consists of gypsum rocks from the Zechstein, which show numerous karst features such as sinkholes, leaching valleys, and caves, of which the Barbarossa Cave with its bizarre forms made of gypsum rock and its underground lakes is the best known. In addition, the Kyffhäuser edge is one of the driest areas in Germany: the site conditions of its steep southern slopes are too extreme for the settlement of woody plants, so the slopes belong to the naturally treeless areas. There is a steppe turf vegetation with numerous endangered species; especially noticeable in July and August are the feather grasses with their long, wind-swaying awns. The return route runs along the Kleine Wipper, an artificially created watercourse, which was used in the Middle Ages to supply water for the Frankenhausen mills and brine extraction and which today functions as an Eldorado for green frogs and dragonflies.
We walk back along Goethestraße to the junction and see the small street Am Hoheneck opposite, which we follow uphill. After a few meters, the "Green Horizontal Bar" leads us straight ahead onto a path. We initially hike through forest on it, then up the slope through a chestnut avenue. At the upper end of the avenue, we continue briefly on a paved surface before a signpost "Circular Route 4" or "Kyffhäuserweg" sends us half-left into the forest. Again to the left after 300 m. Now we are on a narrow path that first descends through beech forest and then passes open steppe turf below the Kattenburg. At the foot of the slope, we turn left on the forest road and take the next opportunity to the right (each "Green Horizontal Bar"). After 250 m, be careful: we must not miss the branch left. We then march straight ahead on a driving track (do not turn right). With a slight ascent, we reach a multiple junction that we cross straight ahead (observe markings). Shortly afterwards, the path
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Sabine Gilcher
Sabine Gilcher, Jahrgang 1962, wuchs im bayerischen Alpenvorland auf, mit einem Hochmoor direkt vor der Haustür, den Osterseen gleich um die Ecke und den Bergen immer in Sichtweite. Die Liebe zur Natur wurde daher früh geweckt und später im Studium der Landespflege vertieft. Heute lebt sie als Landschaftsplanerin in Freiburg im Breisgau. Ein Aufenthalt als Erntehelferin auf einem Bauernhof in Norwegen weckte die Liebe zu Skandinavien. Seit mehr als 30 Jahren bereist sie Europas Norden und Nordwesten und lässt sich jedes Mal von Neuem von den dortigen Landschaften faszinieren. Ihre Hobbys Wandern und Fotografieren sind die ideale Kombination zum Erstellen der Wanderführer für den Rother Bergverlag und das Wissen um ökologische Zusammenhänge kommt ihr sowohl im Gelände als auch beim Verfassen der Wanderführer sehr zustatten.
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