Durch das Brakeler Bergland

Info about the tour: https://www.kulturland.org/Aktivitaeten/Wandern/Lieblingstouren-Wandern/Brakel-Rundwanderweg-Nr.-2/ I can only recommend the tour to a limited extent. 80% of the route runs over asphalt and is often accompanied by traffic noise.

Circular hiking trail from Rheder via Gehrden and Siddessen back to Rheder. It starts at the Rheder landscape park through the middle of fragrant wild garlic areas. Mainly on paved paths, the tour continues in the direction of Gehrden (maybe a bit tough because it only goes straight ahead, but the landscape and forest are still beautiful). Gehrden is exactly halfway through the tour and is ideal for a coffee break :-). We continue over the Öse, the Kreuzweg and a cattle pasture (locked? ... To be on the safe side, we then went next to the pasture) to Siddessen. Pretty place with great buildings. Back to Rheder it goes, inter alia. past a fish ladder. The path was only recently signposted, so orientation is not a problem. We only missed a few signs in the area of the landscape park. Or maybe overlooked.

Walk 19 from "The most beautiful walks in the Paderborner Land and Eggegebirge" by K. H. Schäfer and G. Kaiser

Once a year you can do the round 🥾😀. Now the wild garlic is nice and green and a little later in the year you can stop off at the Bräu Rheder Castle, now it's still winter break. The path from Gehrden goes up to the chapel and then over a cattle pasture down to Sidessen. There is a lot of asphalt but the landscape is simply beautiful and you can slow down so wonderfully 😌🧘 without constantly paying attention to where you step.

There is a lot to see in the towns, along the Öse and Nethe streams it is idyllic and beautiful. The way back from Rehder to Gehrden is rather unspectacular and you walk on a mostly brittle, old tar path. The path in the forest is shady and pleasant to walk in summer.

A somewhat adventurous tour took us from Gehrden Castle to Rheder Castle today. As it snowed last night (April 21st!), the trees with their fresh green leaves could not withstand the weight and broke in rows. Many branches and entire trees lay across the paths. We only heard the warnings that we should avoid forests today on the way home! 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's drizzling today, 3°, hazy and damp - the 2nd Brakel mountain trail is waiting: the start is again in Rheder at the castle. I change into my hiking boots - I certainly won't need them, but I have to wear them again, otherwise I keep having trouble breaking them in - but of course the sole doesn't give in - I miss my lighter Hoka hiking boots very soon... it goes directly past the castle brewery, or rather through the brewery buildings - past the Weidenpalais and into the Sieseberg Nature Park. Here you come directly to the beer cellar complex. In the historical-looking building complex the young beer is matured at a constant temperature of 6° C. On the right you can see the castle and a few meters further to the left is the "Pücklerschlag" line of sight - Hans Kordes placed his deer sculpture made of Corten steel here. There is still snow on the fields, the ground under the paths is frozen solid. A grazing forest lies along the path - the farmers could graze their cattle on the former community meadow. A water trail has been laid out along the Öse - the small river flows through the community of Gehrden and flows into the Nethe in Siddesen. Saint Nepomuk watches over the bridge over the Öse. Here I leave path No. 2 to look at the grounds of Gehrden Castle. I stop off in style at the castle cafe - sitting on a Biedermeier sofa, I look at a portrait of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and enjoy a piece of coconut cake with coffee, what more could you want? Droste was a frequent guest here, by the way... Gehrden Castle was a Benedictine monastery until secularization in 1810. I will describe the impressive Apostle Linden and the monastery church separately. Back on the path, past the bridge saint, we go up the Rosenberg via the Gehrden Way of the Cross. Every year, for the "Gehrden Cross Costume", thousands of believers line the path - an old cross is carried through the town on the shoulder. The path continues through fields along beech forest slopes - unfortunately almost all of the farm roads are asphalted and it stretches all the way to the next town: Siddensen. Shortly after Siddesen, the Öse flows into the Nethe, which now accompanies me the whole time on my right and currently carries a lot of water. The last stretch of the path through the forest has been completely ruined by logging work - I didn't need that anymore! The clay sticks to my shoes and without poles I would have ended up in the mud more often.

Endless wild garlic in the forest, I've never seen anything like it