Barefoot Path Bad Sobernheim

The Bad Sobernheim Barefoot Path is Germany's first barefoot path, about 3.5 km long. A 3500 m long unforgettable adventure for young and old. Pure experience – it will knock your socks off! The "mud pastor" Emanuel Felke already recommended barefoot walking to his patients. Like a foot reflexology massage, walking over grass, clay, sand, stones, and bark chippings stimulates the whole body. The path begins at the clay stamping basin, where you will also find lockers for shoes and towels, a changing room, and a foot washing station. Via a skill course and various ground materials, you reach the Nahe ford. Alternatively, a wooden bridge allows you to cross to the other side of the Nahe. Enjoy nature along the way and take a break or picnic at the rest benches. Over the 40 m long suspension bridge, you can cross like Indiana Jones to the other bank, or you can cross the Nahe by boat. Did you know that our feet carry us almost four times around the Earth in a lifetime? Treat them to a reflexology massage in a natural way. Off with your shoes and into the fun! The barefoot path in Bad Sobernheim offers ideal conditions for this. The path is checked and maintained daily. Please observe the safety instructions at the special attractions.

Geology

Barefoot through 300 million years of Earth history, an exciting experience! Discover and feel the diverse rocks of the Nahe mountain range barefoot and up close. The "geology path" runs along the barefoot path. Seven illustrated panels provide information about

the respective geological eras with their geological features as well as the fauna and flora of those times:

1. Geology on the Barefoot Path

2. The Nahe – a relic from the Ice Age

3. The gravels of the Nahe

4. Barefoot through Earth history

5. When Bad Sobernheim lay on the equator

6. Glowing lava and semi-deserts around Bad Sobernheim

7. The seaside of Bad Sobernheim

This makes geography lessons outside school especially exciting for children and teenagers.

The geological trail begins with a panorama of the landscape around Bad Sobernheim (Panel 1). The deposited rocks are an archive of Earth history. The landscape, climate, vegetation, fauna, and even water current directions of that time can be reconstructed. At the next station (Panel 2), the youngest era (Quaternary) is depicted, which began 2.6 million years ago and was characterized by several cold and warm periods. The gravels of the Nahe are displayed in wire baskets for illustration (Panel 3). They tell of their origin and the shaping processes on their journey with the Nahe. The Permian era, about 300 million years ago, shaped the region around the Nahe (Panel 4). Bad Sobernheim was then located near the equator; visitors experience river deposits from this time when walking over the gray and red sandstones (Panel 5). Walking barefoot over the solidified conglomerates also brings Earth history to life again. The volcanism during the Permian left basalt columns and other volcanic rocks whose hardness guests can feel firsthand (Panel 6). Laid-out, brick-fired clay stones illustrate the current usability and use of these rocks as raw material. Visitors conclude their geological barefoot path experience walking over the beach sand of a former seaside near Bad Sobernheim from the Tertiary era, 30 million years ago (Panel 7).