Leininger Monastery Trail - Premium hiking trail with audio and video stations

Premium hiking with audio and video information

Along the path at a total of 9 locations, we have provided you with interesting information about the places and sights. You can follow the route using the description (here the links to the information on YouTube are marked as "stations") or you can use the official and free Rheinland-Pfalz experience app.

How it works on site: Start or install the Rheinland-Pfalz app, activate the GPS function of your smartphone, select the route, click on "open in app" and select the map view. Now you can start the route and at any symbol visible on the map, you can play the audio and video files. So you don’t have to look at your smartphone all the time and can enjoy the hike consciously with your head held high. As an introduction, we show you here in the video what awaits you on the Leininger Monastery Trail (Station 1).

The starting point of the Leininger Monastery Trail is the excursion restaurant and conference center of the Nature Friends, the Rahnenhof in Hertlingshausen (Station). We always follow the yellow marking with a stylized monastery: over quiet paths that make up most of the way, we reach the Old Sauhäuschen (Station). The shelter at a small forest spring originally served as a refuge for forest workers and hunters. Now we go up to the Kieskautberg (Station), the highest point of the hike. The mountain is 461 m high and lies two kilometers south of Carlsberg in the east of the Diemerstein Forest, as a part of the northern Palatinate Forest is called. On the further path, we circle around the Steinkopf; from here you have a nice view of the elevations of Mönchskappe, Ameisen-Kopf or Rahnfels. Past the Schlüsselstein (Station) and the Leuchtenberg, the route goes then towards Höningen. The Schlüsselstein (the Peter's key as a symbol of the clergy) marks the border of the monastery estate to the former Ganerbenwald (cooperative possession of several villages from the Rhine plain). Höningen (Station) (place to eat) with its former monastery and St. Jakobs Church (oldest Romanesque building in the Palatinate; restored medieval paintings) was once the cultural heart of Altleiningen. At the Neuhöfer spring (Station) the monastery trail crosses the Altleiningen Forest educational trail. Many stations explain tree species, grasses and shrubs, native birds, mushrooms and various wild species. We leave the Palatinate Forest, pass the former Neuhof monastery estate (Station) (today "Demeter" farm and nursery with a shop), continue through the Eckbach valley to the monastery village Hertlingshausen (Station) and from there back to the starting point of the route (place to eat) or back to the bus stop.

Places to eat:

Nature Friends House Rahnenhof (open daily continuously)

Klosterschänke Höningen (open continuously, closed Mon and Thu)

Zum Jagdschloss (open continuously, closed Tue)

(Author: Lutz Fütterling)