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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

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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

Highlight • Trail

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. Drainage ditches were dug to create suitable living conditions for the spruce. After the Second World War, parts of the area were cleared and converted into agricultural land. The core area of the Todtenbruch was reforested with Sitka spruce and red spruce. eifel.info/wandern/wanderwege/a-bodenlehrpfad-todtenbruch-1

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5.12 km

Bunker in the Todtenbruch

Highlight • Monument

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 the future. Which immediately reflects the suffering of the war. Because no matter what time we are in, in a war there are only losers.

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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

Ruins of Bunker 113

Highlight • Historical Site

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

Highlight • Historical Site

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 on both sides. Another victim: American private first class Robert Cahow. His body was found in 2000, and in 2004 relatives set up a memorial stone for her dead.
A few meters from this memorial is the place where Cahow was found. It is marked with stones as a reminder of the Irish ancestry of the American soldier. The member of the 78th US Division was probably died on December 13, 1944 in an attack on a bunker that no longer exists today.
Only 50 meters from the stone hill is 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.
At the last bunker, it is easy to determine how difficult it was to blow up the facilities, especially since the pioneers were initially inexperienced. The Americans also found it difficult to blow up the bunkers. Only when they filled the facilities with water to increase their explosive power did their efforts show success. (Source: Aachener Zeitung)

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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, and thus a testimony to the horror of war and tyranny. This culture of commemoration and remembrance has an essential and – for every generation anew – important goal: admonishing people to PEACE.

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