The best walks and hikes around Hemslingen

A truly impressive tree! The three-trunked oak stands right by the path and, due to its size, almost seems like a small meeting point in the middle of nature. Of course, we immediately tried to see if we could embrace it together 😄

Old half-timbered house with barn and granary now serves as a community center and is surrounded by a farm garden that is always accessible.

Large, north German building and at the same time the center of village culture. Good resting place and also starting point of the village hiking trail.

The homestead grounds at "Brockwaschhus" represent the business card of the municipality of Hemslingen. It is by no means just a starting point with sufficient parking spaces for the relatively new "Ortsweg around Hemslingen" https://www.nordwaerts.de/aktiv-entspannt/tour/ortsweg- Rund-um-hemslingen-100283755/ , an addition to the range of northern paths, but a real highlight with historical buildings and lovingly maintained small gardens that make rural culture symbolically tangible.

This collection of old half-timbered buildings, which today serve as the home of the municipal administration and the TuS Hemslingen-Söhlingen, are already a beautiful eye-catcher. This is also the start of the local path around Hemslingen, which is part of the extended series of northern paths.

This three-trunk oak tree with a hemispherical crown, which has been listed as a natural monument since March 1, 2022, has a circumference of 4.65 m. How many people do you need to hold the tree once? Try it. The name Nelsonweg refers to the deserted village of Nelson, which was founded by the lords of Gut Prechel at the beginning of the 19th century. The name Nelson was chosen because the British admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) was also greatly revered as a naval hero in what was then the Kingdom of Hanover. The town of Nelson existed until the mid-19th century.

At 52.8 meters, the Holler is the highest elevation in the vicinity. According to a tale, the giant Holler passed by here on his way south. During his rest he emptied his big boots. The Hollerberg was created from the falling sand. Many smile at the holler and find the name. Mountain exaggerated, but in fact it ensures that many a rain cloud moves around the village and thus the one or the other thunderstorm spares the place. Incidentally, we are here on one of the largest natural gas fields in Germany, from which gas has been produced since 1980.

This plaque on the oak tree was erected in 1906 in honor of a loyal employee at the Barms farm, the Lütjens family. At that time he had been working there for 25 years. If you consider that this pedunculate oak was planted in 1906, you might guess how old some of the other trees you encounter on this trail must be. During the last weeks of the war, the villages were still heavily fought over. As a result, many trees were hit by projectiles or their parts. For this reason, farm oaks are not very popular with sawmills, despite their age and size, because the shrapnel that have grown into them can damage the saw blades.