The best walks and hikes around Dambach

I thought this was the highest point 😂

At this beautiful spot, there's a bench of a different kind, where you can sit facing each other and enjoy the view in the same direction. An angle between the bench's legs makes this possible.

It is a memorial to an unpunished murder that occurred deep in the forest around 285 years ago. A large wooden cross stands on the base of the so-called Tirolerstein, located in the heart of the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park and directly on the border between the Birkenfeld and Trier-Saarburg districts. A seating area in front of it invites you to take a break in the greenery. Since the former chapel in the nearby Neuhütten district of Muhl was converted into the National Park Church a few years ago, and since then, star hikes have been held there, the Tirolerstein has also been a place where believers occasionally hold services.

A Tyrolean trader was murdered here ages ago and the cross is a reminder of this.

A memorial to a murdered Tyrolean trader.

Great pond with a nice place to stop

Traunen was first mentioned in documents in 1256, Brücken in 1374. Until the end of the 18th century, the current municipality was divided, Brücken belonged to the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim, Traunen to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. In 1794, the left bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops. From 1798 to 1814, Brücken and Traunen belonged to the canton of Birkenfeld in the Saar department. Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region became part of the Oldenburg principality of Birkenfeld in 1817. The municipality of Brücken was assigned to the mayoralty of Birkenfeld in the Birkenfeld district, the municipality of Traunen to the mayoralty of Achtelsbach in the Nohfelden district. From 1918 onwards, both places belonged to the Oldenburg "region of Birkenfeld". The current district of Traunen was incorporated into Brücken in 1934. The municipality of Brücken became part of the Prussian district of Birkenfeld in 1937, and has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946. Brücken is known for the legend of Hinzhausen. According to this legend, there was a village in the forest that was struck by the plague. After much deliberation, the surviving residents decided to lock their village from the inside and burn everything down. This way, the rest of the area was spared from the plague. Today, it is said that there are still some ruins in the middle of the forest around Brücken. These ruins do indeed exist, but it is not clear whether they are left over from the tragic plague in Hinzhausen.

The Dollberg is 695 m above sea level. NN is the highest mountain in Saarland and belongs to one of the prominent mountain ranges in the high forest. These stretch as ridges running from southwest to northeast from the Saar to the Rhine. The ridges consist of quartzite, which in turn has its origin in sandstone. This was finally transformed into quartzite by pressure and high temperatures during the folding of the mountains in the Devonian. Due to its hardness, it is comparatively weather-resistant. As the surrounding, softer rock was eroded, the quartzite deposits were preserved as ridges. A beautiful hiking destination and, as the highest "mountain" in Saarland, of course also a highlight here in the region. https://www.naturpark.org/natur-und-kultur/natur/geologie/geopunkte-devon-permokarbon-nonnweiler-und-zuesch/dollberg