Via Adrina - Hiking Tour with Views Relations (1. Stage)

The first stage is 13 km and leads over the Eder bridge, along a headwater area with a group of trees. Then follows a steep ascent to the viewing platform, which offers a view over the entire hiking area.

The "Café Hainbach" is the next stop. We follow the tour around the basin of the Mühlbach Valley and get a view to the upper Hüttental up to  Schwarzenau.

You will pass rough meadows. White and blackthorn bushes are dominating the landscape.

We follow the traces of the mining industry, including an old charcoal pile place.

Afterwards we pass through a herding landscape (Hutelandschaft), as it used to belong to every village.

We can now follow the signs back to Arfeld.

Afterwards we pass the protestant church, which is open during the summer months for hikers and cyclists.

The Arfeld blacksmith museum is also worth a visit on every 3rd Saturday of the month from 10 to 12 o'clock.

The circular tour demands a certain level of fitness and surefootedness in places; sturdy shoes are recommended.

Sturdy shoes and probalby hiking sticks are recommended.

In 2009 the "Via Adrina" was awarded as the third most beautiful hiking trail in Germany.

Follow the L553 from Raumland to Arfeld. Immediately behind the Eder bridge turn left. The parking space is on the left side.

From Hatzfeld follwo the L553 through Arfeld. At the end of the village, to Dotzlar - turn right before the Eder bridge. The parking space is on the left side.

The parking space is free and offers enough space.

You can use the hiking Map "Wittgenstone" available at the Tourist Information Desk, Am Marktplatz 1a in Bad Berleburg.

Achtung! Wenn Sie die Arfelder Runde laufen, ändert sich kurz das Wanderzeichen. Folgen Sie dann dem weißen Dreieck auf schwarzem Grund.

Parking space , Arfelder Hauptstraße 1, Bad Berleburg-Arfeld

Parking space , Arfelder Hauptstraße 1, Bad Berleburg-Arfeld