Wollseifen and Ordensburg Vogelsang
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.24 mi
- Elevation gain
- 459 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 459 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,722 ft
- TrailRank
- 49
- Min elevation
- 1,280 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 42 minutes
- Time
- 2 hours 12 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1405
- Uploaded
- September 28, 2022
- Recorded
- September 2022
near Morsbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Deutschland)
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Itinerary description
Wollseifen and Ordensburg Vogelsang
An easy, interesting walk to Wollseifen, an abandoned ghost town and Ordensburg Vogelsang, a former nazi complex.
Free parking:, 50,56773° N, 6,43596° O
From the parking follow the signs towards Wollseifen. At every intersection there are signs provided!
Wollseifen is kind of a ghost town with abandoned baracks.
On big information boards you can read about the town’s history and transformations.
We walked around a bit, took a look in the church and continued towards Vogelsang.
First part goes downhill and passes by the former Vogelsang Dorf and the second part to Vogelsang, the nazi complex, goes back up through the forest
“Ordensburg Vogelsang is a former Nazi complex located within the former military training area of Vogelsang in the Eifel National Park in North Rhine-Westphalia. The landmarked and fully preserved complex was used by the Nazi Party between 1936 and 1939 as an educational centre for future leaders. Since 1 January 2006 the area has been open to visitors. It is one of the largest architectural relics of Nazi Germany. The total area of the listed buildings is 50,000 m2.”
-wikipedia
We took our time exploring the site, reading a bit about the history before walking back to our car.
Very interesting walk!
An easy, interesting walk to Wollseifen, an abandoned ghost town and Ordensburg Vogelsang, a former nazi complex.
Free parking:, 50,56773° N, 6,43596° O
From the parking follow the signs towards Wollseifen. At every intersection there are signs provided!
Wollseifen is kind of a ghost town with abandoned baracks.
On big information boards you can read about the town’s history and transformations.
We walked around a bit, took a look in the church and continued towards Vogelsang.
First part goes downhill and passes by the former Vogelsang Dorf and the second part to Vogelsang, the nazi complex, goes back up through the forest
“Ordensburg Vogelsang is a former Nazi complex located within the former military training area of Vogelsang in the Eifel National Park in North Rhine-Westphalia. The landmarked and fully preserved complex was used by the Nazi Party between 1936 and 1939 as an educational centre for future leaders. Since 1 January 2006 the area has been open to visitors. It is one of the largest architectural relics of Nazi Germany. The total area of the listed buildings is 50,000 m2.”
-wikipedia
We took our time exploring the site, reading a bit about the history before walking back to our car.
Very interesting walk!
Waypoints
Car park
1,673 ft
Information point
Intersection
Religious site
Waypoint
Photo
Monument
Picnic
River
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