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Baybachklamm Caves – Tree trunk bench loop from Heyweiler

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Baybachklamm Caves – Tree trunk bench loop from Heyweiler

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4.8

(134)

385

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Baybachklamm Caves – Tree trunk bench loop from Heyweiler

04:56

16.1km

470m

Hiking

Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 16, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that may be dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 2.49 km for 21 m

After 14.3 km for 11 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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751 m

Viewpoint

1.50 km

Baybachklamm Caves

Highlight • Cave

Lead ore and slate were extracted in some of the tunnels. In the caves and old tunnels, the residents took shelter during the bombing of the Second World War. Peter Zeutzheim, who had escaped from Gestapo custody and who, with the support of the population, managed to stay hidden in the surrounding forests until the end of the war, also hid here for a time.

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1.52 km

Baybachtal Bat Cave (Slate Tunnel)

Highlight • Cave

In the past, several roof slate pits were operated in the Baybachtal, below the Schmausemühle you can still find spoil heaps and tunnel entrances that were driven a few hundred meters into the mountain. Up to 40 workers were employed there in 1921. The mighty slate slabs can still be seen in the earth outcrops.

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3.15 km

Klöckners Kaul slate mine tunnel and rest area

Highlight • Cave

A beautiful and totally lovingly designed rest area.

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14.1 km

Frankweiler Bach Waterfall

Highlight • Waterfall

The beautiful little waterfall is somewhat hidden. You have to be careful not to just walk past it.

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14.1 km

Climbing section in the Baybach Gorge

Highlight • Climb

Nice dream loop with individual short climbing passages.
Wire ropes are available to help where you have to "climb" a bit. Not a via ferrata in the sense that you need via ferrata equipment!

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14.5 km

Tree trunk bench

Highlight • Rest Area

The work of a creative forest worker:
Instead of processing a giant tree that had fallen victim to the storm into small wood, it was converted into an oversized bench in spring 2019 and is obviously also used with pleasure.
In the fall of 2018, this was not yet the case, as only the dead giant lay over the Baybach.

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14.7 km

Baybach Waterfall

Highlight • Waterfall

A beautiful waterfall in the Babachtal is as much a part of it as it is with ropes secured paths over rocks.

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14.8 km

Heyweiler Farmers' Mill

Highlight • Historical Site

The Heyweiler Bauernmühle functioned as the town's grain mill from 1893 to 1945.
After the business ceased, the building fell into disrepair and was sold in the early 1950s.
As the building fell into disrepair, renovation was no longer possible, so the formerly single-storey mill was now rebuilt on two storeys on the old foundations in 1971 using the old wooden beams.
Remarkable detail: An old millstone is built into the stairs leading past the building.

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15.3 km

Weiher

Lake

16.1 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.19 km

5.55 km

2.48 km

772 m

123 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

5.59 km

5.38 km

2.33 km

1.88 km

764 m

183 m

< 100 m

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Highest point (350 m)

Lowest point (200 m)

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Baybachklamm Caves – Tree trunk bench loop from Heyweiler

Baybachklamm Caves

Baybachtal Bat Cave (Slate Tunnel)

Klöckners Kaul slate mine tunnel and rest area

Frankweiler Bach Waterfall

Climbing section in the Baybach Gorge

Tree trunk bench

Baybach Waterfall

Heyweiler Farmers' Mill

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