The best gravel rides around Suthfeld

On July 8, 1951, at the initiative of forest chief Otto Korn, a memorial was inaugurated at the Kreuzbuche for employees of the forestry administration who fell in World War II. The monument, financed by donations from employees of the forestry administration, consists of a 2.50-meter-high memorial stone and a 12-meter-high wooden cross, made from a 15-meter-long oak trunk that cost 344 German marks at the time. Carved into the crossbeams is In hoc signo vince (Latin for: "Conquer under this sign"). The Wealden sandstone, worked by the Egestorf stonemason Karl Sondershausen, bears 10 names of the fallen or missing on the front and another 6 names subsequently chiseled on its left side, and on its back a quote from the Gospel of John. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzbuche_(Barsinghausen)

You can eat very well 🥘 or just take a short break with coffee and cake 🍰 after hiking 🥾 in the Deister or cycling 🚴‍♂️

On a snowshoe hike, the Wallmannhütte in the Deister hills becomes a quiet, almost magical place. Surrounded by snow-covered forest, it offers a welcome break where you can pause for a moment and enjoy the winter tranquility.

Next to the construction sites for the State Garden Show is the idyllic NABU Oasis, worth a visit.

Originally, where the Mooshütte is today, there was a shelter made of sticks and moss, next to a small pond that was fed by the Hessian spring. As early as 1895, the innkeeper of the Königseiche in Bantorf, Fritz Hecht, had been running the restaurant at the spring with a horse and cart, and only when the weather was good. In 1924, Fritz Hecht had the building of today's Mooshütte built, but it only contained a bar and a kitchen and was only later converted to residential use. In 1940, an ice and storage cellar was built into the mountain behind the Mooshütte, which always had the same temperature in summer and winter. In 1951, the steel construction company Preussag began emergency mining facilities around the Mooshütte. In 1954, the hall was added to the left of the building. Five years later, the Mooshütte was taken over by the daughter of the innkeeper Friedolf Hecht and her family, the Watermann family, who continued to expand the Mooshütte. After mining ceased in 1960, the Watermann family had the washhouse converted into a guest house. In October 1998, the Mooshütte was purchased by the Flügge family from Schmarrie, who had been interested in the building for some time and were in negotiations with the previous owner. They immediately set about renovating the property. On May 1, 1999, the Mooshütte opened its doors as a restaurant for day trippers and hikers. Since then, the Mooshütte has once again enjoyed its traditionally lively popularity. In the 2000s, further extensive renovations took place. There were new extensions and further redesigns. Source: https://mooshuette.de/#hi

The Rodenberger Höhe rises west of the Heisterburg at 322 m above sea level. It is a trigonometric point for the national survey and the location for a tower with telecommunications equipment. About 600 meters northwest of this point you will find - still in the parcel of land of the same name - the Rodenberger Hütte, which is why many Deister hikers also call it the "Rodenberger Höhe". Source: https://guentherklapproth.hier-im-netz.de/nachtrag_5_rodenberger_hoehe.html

Trail to the mine

The Calenberger Land is a historical landscape that included Neustadt am Rübenberge, Hanover and Hameln. Today the name is mostly used as a regional name for the much smaller southwest of the Hanover region, where Calenberg Castle is located. It is separated to the east and north by the Leine and Mittelland Canal and bounded to the southwest by the Deister and to the south by the Kleiner Deister, both of which are largely still part of it. The Calenberger Land region community association does not consist of all of these communities. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calenberger_Land