The best running trails around Enzklösterle

The Baumwipfelpfad Schwarzwald is a 1250 m long treetop path on the Sommerberg west of Bad Wildbad in the district of Calw, Baden-Württemberg, at an altitude of about 750 m above sea level. It was built according to plans by the Schönberg architect Josef Stöger. The facility, opened in 2014, offers knowledge about the forest and its wildlife at various information stations, as well as an observation tower. It is operated by the company Erlebnis Akademie AG. The entrance to the path can be reached from the mountain station of the Sommerbergbahn funicular via the Emmaweg or from the public car park via a zigzag path. The treetop path runs for a length of about 636 m and a height above ground between about 4 and 20 m. It follows the terrain with a constant gentle gradient and offers various didactic stations as well as experience stations such as balance beams or wobbly elements. In addition, there are 15 comic panels along the path, which are intended to provide excitement and convey knowledge, especially to children, as part of a treetop path comic rally. The entire path, including the ramp access in the observation tower, is barrier-free and reaches a maximum gradient of 6%. At the end of the path, you reach a 38.5 m high observation tower, which is mainly made of wood and, due to the arrangement of twelve doubly inclined, layer-glued main supports, looks like a large twisted cup. The supports are arranged rotationally symmetrically at the same distance from each other and are inclined both outwards and clockwise. They are connected to each other by steel tubes, cross-braced multiple times, and partly protected against the weather by sheet metal cladding. Access from the path into the tower is at a height of about five meters on the second turn of the 614 m long access ramp, which runs within the support columns, and which, after a total of nine turns, reaches the twelve-sided, approximately ring-shaped observation platform. This is attached to the outside of the supports with steel cantilevers and offers a view far into the Black Forest, the Rhine Valley, and the Swabian Jura. Orientation arrows to visual targets and to the other treetop paths of the operating company are attached to the parapet. At a height of 25 m, between the access ramp and a steel tube support standing in the middle of the tower, there is a triangular platform, from which a 55 m .....

The Wasserstube Vorderes Neubachstüble on the Kleine Enz is a historic weir from the era of timber rafting. It was used to impound water in order to generate sufficient surge water when needed for the transport of timber rafts. Today, there is a beautiful resting place here directly at the weir.

Historic boundary stone shortly before Aichelberg with the Württemberg coat of arms.

Beautiful spot on the Kälberbach with a small waterfall that can be reached by descending a path from the hiking trail.

View through a small forest clearing onto Sprollenhaus. There is also an information board for the Aichelberger Traumtour with a QR code for further information.

On several information boards, the water supply in the mountain villages is explained. In September 1897, the structures at Kälbermühle were built, and a short time later, the pressure pipeline to the main Hünerberg reservoir. In front of the historical, very beautifully designed building, there is also a resting bench.

Quite a tall giant sequoia directly on the forest path between Fautsburg and Hünerberg.

The Fautsburg is a small spur castle that served as a refuge several times. It dates back to the 12th century and originally consisted of a small tower castle on a rock. It is separated from the mountain by a mighty moat, which was hewn out of the rock. The stones obtained during the construction of the moat were used to erect the tower, which is the only building still existing today. The Fautsburg hides today in deep forests and, even as a ruin, does justice to its function as a refuge both in terms of its structure and its atmosphere.