Kaiserplätzle – Clay pit on the Kleiner Bärenpfad loop from Nellingen
Kaiserplätzle – Clay pit on the Kleiner Bärenpfad loop from Nellingen
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Kaiserplätzle – Clay pit on the Kleiner Bärenpfad loop from Nellingen
02:00
7.74km
40m
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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 23, 2026
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4.67 km
Kaiserplätzle
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Schulwaldhütte Nellingen
Highlight • Mountain Hut
Biotopes and a very beautiful landscape.
Biotopes and water points are a rarity on the Alb plateau. They were sealed with clay by the land consolidation in 1985, unfortunately they could not withstand the severe frost and the roots of the grass and slowly began to leak.
Later several ponds from the Albverein-Nellingen were sealed with a foil. Four dry and wet biotopes are owned by the municipality of Nellingen and are looked after, nurtured and cared for with a lot of love by the Alb Association. They are a fascinating habitat and often the only spawning opportunity for amphibians, such as newts and various toad species, and many dragonflies can also be seen here.
In the Geggenbuch you can often find migratory birds and ducks.
But now to me, I am the heart of the Nellinger-Albverein, I live at Römerstrasse 500 on the edge of the school forest, they call me “Schulwaldhütte”. I've been standing here since 1971 and served the students as weather protection as long as they reforested the school forest. Later I was a tool shed for the forest workers and was then gradually converted into the "Albvereinshütte". In 2013 I even got a new toilet facility and it became much brighter, bigger and more beautiful.
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Clay pit on the Kleiner Bärenpfad
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only cattle graze in me.
There used to be a brick factory in almost every larger village. They made bricks for walls and tiles for roofs.
The brickworks was built around 1850 by an immigrant outside the village because of the risk of fire on the Roman road. Today the Wörz family.
In the brickworks, our valuable clay was tamped into molds, then dried and burned. The raw material clay, also known as Lixe, was dug out of the ground as close as possible to the brickworks. This is how we came to be, with our great deep pits.
We could still be seen in the landscape for a long time. Many of us were simply replenished during land consolidation in 1977-1992.
Only the field name Lixegrub or Lixhau still reminds us of our existence. Later we were often used as a garbage dump for all kinds of rubbish.
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Roman Road on the Kleiner Bärenpfad
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I was a Roman borderline in the 1st century AD on the Swabian Alb.
In the year 70-74 AD, the border line was higher than the landscape, built of stones, I was also called Hochstrasse. Without ditches and defensive walls, my path was 135 km in length, the northernmost border of the Roman Empire until about 122 AD.
I stretched from Rottweil to Heidenheim and was the fastest connection between the military camps for the Roman army.
Later a part of me was also called Mühlweg or Müllerweg. Because the farmers from Nellingen were legally obliged to only grind their grain in the Ditzenbacher mill until 1607.
Roman Road Info Center: Archaeological Landscape Park Today you can no longer see any stones from me, I was simply covered up and am still slumbering under the layer of tar.
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Start of the Nellingen Bear Trails
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Bus stop
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5.42 km
1.22 km
1.10 km
Surfaces
5.19 km
2.27 km
285 m
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