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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Kreis Düren

Hürtgenwald

Todtenbruch Soil Trail – Private First Class Robert Cahow Memorial Site loop from Vossenack

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Kreis Düren

Hürtgenwald

Todtenbruch Soil Trail – Private First Class Robert Cahow Memorial Site loop from Vossenack

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Todtenbruch Soil Trail – Private First Class Robert Cahow Memorial Site loop from Vossenack

04:10

15.1km

240m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 22, 2026

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4.58 km

Todtenbruch

Nature Reserve

4.87 km

Todtenbruch Soil Trail

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The Todtenbruch is the northeasternmost branch of the High Fens. These were old forest areas which - together with the surrounding areas - were planted with coniferous wood around 1830. …

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5.12 km

Bunker in the Todtenbruch

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It's really interesting how nature devours the past. And yet the past is so meaningful that it enables a journey into a past time in the present and even in …

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6.09 km

Memorial Stone for the First Settlers of Raffelsbrand

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The memorial stone commemorates the first settlers from Raffelsbrand, who found their home here after the devastating Second World War and the battle in the Hürtgenwald in 1952.

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7.84 km

The former bunker 113, which was probably blown up during the war. Bunker 113 is not the only legacy of the battle in the Hürtgenwald. Three other bunkers are on the edge of the path, blown up after the war.

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8.26 km

Bunker 113 and Memorial to PFC Robert Cahow

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Old positions and cover holes, as well as a memorial stone for two American and one German soldiers, whose skeletons were found during forest work in 1976, tell of killing …

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9.00 km

Memorial to Robert G. Canfield and Robert Cahow in the Hürtgen Forest

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It is important that places like the ones hiked here in the Hürtgenwald, illustrated and partly described, keep alive the memory of the hardship, misery and suffering of that time, …

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