Dream Loop "Köhlerpfad am Steinbach"

We start our hike at the entrance portal in the charcoal burner village Langweiler, where we can enjoy an impressive view of the Steinbach dam and the Wildenburg. The path initially follows the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig and the "Köhler-Liesels Nature Park Family Route." At the Garden of Biodiversity "Am Häselbure," there is an opportunity to pause and observe the nature on the flowering meadow.

Then we go down over the meadow landscape and cross the K52. Langweiler lies to our left, and to the right is the local community of Sensweiler.

Over a meadow and a wooden footbridge, we enter the forest and cross the Steinbach on a wooden bridge, which accompanies us with its bubbling over the following meters. We pass through an open landscape past the village of Sensweiler and finally reach the memorial plaque of the abandoned settlement Croppenhof. We continue our way over fields and meadows and enjoy the beautiful view of the Wildenburg from the Sensweiler viewpoint before we follow the “Köhlerpfad am Steinbach” downhill and finally enter the forest. The path leads on winding narrow trails through the forest until we reach the Steinbach dam waterworks in Kempfeld-Katzenloch with a nearby hiking parking lot.

We turn left into the forest and follow the stream, which we cross on a wooden footbridge. Our path continues along the forest edge until we can enjoy an impressive view of the Steinbach dam at a viewpoint. We continue the path through the forest and arrive again at a viewpoint with a sensory bench. On the following stretch, we can also enjoy the fantastic view of the Steinbach dam.

Then it goes again over the open landscape, where a beautiful view of the Wildenburg opens up to us. Uphill, on the right, lie the villages of Kempfeld and Bruchweiler. We follow the path along the forest edge and cross the L162. Then it goes into the forest, over a footbridge, until we reach the open landscape again and have another beautiful view of the Steinbach dam.

Shortly before Langweiler, we enter the forest again and walk past thick, moss-covered trees until we reach the first houses. In Langweiler, we keep to the right and after a few meters turn left. Passing the memorial of the local community, we follow the path, which on the last meters uphill runs again on the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig. We pass the former monastery Marienhöh and return to the starting point of our hike.