The best walks and hikes around Wölpinghausen

after a short hike, the destination with a view is reached

The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Trail in the Rehburg Mountains is a popular themed hiking trail that combines nature and fairy tale culture. Along the way, visitors encounter various stations that pick up on and vividly depict well-known stories by the Brothers Grimm. Figures, panels, and small installations invite you to rediscover the fairy tales in a playful way. At the same time, the trail leads through a varied landscape with forests and hills, which invites exploration and lingering. The fairy tale trail is therefore particularly suitable for families and combines nature experience with cultural education.

The former royal spa facilities of Bad Rehburg are a building and cultural monument from the Romantic period that is unique in Germany. With its healing springs, the place, then known as the "Madeira of the North", even attracted the Hanoverian royal family for recovery and pleasure. In the inviting ensemble of promenade hall, bathhouse with museum and the Friederiken Chapel, culture can be experienced in a royal atmosphere. It is also worth taking a look at the diverse events calendar, which offers a high-quality program from art and theater to classical and jazz concerts. The "World Classics at the Piano" series of events only features masters of this field - a must for all music lovers! The arts and crafts market opens its doors every year in mid-April with a high-quality and contemporary offering. The adjoining Carpe Diem restaurant invites you to round off a visit to Bad Rehburg with a culinary treat. Source: https://www.hannover.de/Kultur-Freizeit/Architektur-geschichte/Historische-Bauten/Historische-Kuranlagen-Romantik-Bad-Rehburg

A chain fairy tale: the story of the chicken that dreams that the sky is falling on its head - and that therefore has to run to Loccum as quickly as possible. It also tells this to the animals that it meets, one after the other, on its way there. And they all share its fear - one after the other - and run with it. Until they meet the fox. And end up in its cave... now it becomes dangerous. Source: https://hoerspiele.dra.de/detailansicht/4935988

The main motif of the fairy tale, the redemption of the enchanted brothers by their only sister, can be found in a whole series of fairy tales, including Basile's fairy tale The Seven Doves, the Grimm fairy tales The Six Swans and The Twelve Brothers, and The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. The birds here probably represent the damnation of souls, the long journey the girl has to go, the guilt that was burdened upon her at birth (see the search hike). The glass mountain stands on the one hand for insurmountability, and on the other hand for clarity (transparent): the girl knows "crystal clear" what she has to do, and by chopping off a finger she is a sacrifice. Source: https://www.maerchenatlas.de/deutsche-maerchen/grimms-marchen/die-sieben-raben/

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor woodcutter who lives with them and his wife in the forest. When their hardship becomes too great, she persuades her husband to abandon the two children in the forest. Although it is difficult for him, the woodcutter takes the children into the forest the next day and leaves them alone under a pretext. But Hansel has overheard the parents and on the way into the forest he has laid a trail of small white stones that the children can use to find their way back. This is how the mother's plan fails. But the second attempt to abandon the children is successful: this time Hansel and Gretel only have a slice of bread with them, which Hansel crumbles to leave a trail. However, it is picked up by birds. As a result, the children cannot find their way home and get lost. On the third day, the two come across a little house made entirely of bread, cake and sugar. First, they tear down parts of the house to satisfy their hunger. However, in this house lives a witch who is a cannibal. In both the original version of the fairy tale from 1812 and in the later editions up to the "final edition" from 1857, she calls out in a kind of onomatopoeia: "Knuper, knuper, kneischen, who is nibbling at my little house?" In Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book from 1856, the text, which differs from the Brothers Grimm, reads: "Knusper, knusper, kneischen! Who is nibbling at my little house?" The children's answer, however, is identical in Bechstein and in the extended version of the Brothers Grimm from 1819: "The wind, the wind, the heavenly child." The witch is not fooled, catches the two, turns Gretel into a maid and fattens Hansel in a cage to eat him later. However, Hansel uses a trick: to check whether the boy is fat enough, the half-blind witch feels his finger every day. But each time Hansel holds out a small bone to her. When she sees that the boy does not seem to be getting fat, she loses patience and wants to roast him immediately. The witch orders Gretel to look in the oven to see if it is hot. But Gretel claims that she is too small for it, so the witch has to look herself. When she opens the oven, Gretel pushes the evil witch in. The children take treasures from the witch's house and find their way back to their father. Their mother has since died. Now they live happily and no longer suffer from hunger.

One fine morning, the hare makes fun of the hedgehog's crooked legs, whereupon the hedgehog challenges him to a race for a golden "Lujedor" (Louis d'or) and a bottle of brandy. When the race begins in the field, the hedgehog only runs a few steps, but has placed his wife, who looks very similar to him, at the end of the furrow. As the hare, confident of victory, rushes towards him, the hedgehog's wife stands up and calls out to him: "Ick bün all hier!" ("I'm already here!"). The hare cannot understand his defeat, he demands revenge and completes a total of 73 races, always with the same result. During the 74th race, he collapses from exhaustion and dies.

Open weather shelter with a magnificent view.