The lumberjack round

The Torhaus is the starting point. Easily accessible by bus, bike and car. The large hiking parking lot is a gateway to the Sauerland-Waldroute, a 240 km long-distance hiking trail from Marsberg to Iserlohn. Follow the white W on a green mirror, initially on a path, then over the Heveseedamm dam to the idyllic valley of the Kleine Schmalenau. The Waldroute uses the narrow side strip between the dam (road) and the bank until the bank becomes wider and wider. The following forest path offers beautiful views of the Schmalenau, which alternates between fast and slow flowing. The Grüne Hoffnung, a lonely house, used to serve as a forester's lodge. Later, you briefly cross an asphalt road (forest path) and follow the forest path until you cross the B 229 at Breitenbruch and enter the village on the left, initially on an unsecured asphalt strip and later on a footpath. It developed from a forest workers' settlement. Later, we cross the main road with the white double line markings (we leave the Waldroute) and turn left into the street "Im Windlicht". We follow this road until we reach Altenbreitenbruch (the original site of the forest workers' settlement), where the path runs slightly uphill towards a crossroads on an asphalted forest path marked with a double horizontal line. The bench, under chestnut trees, bears the strange name Kastanienkeller (chestnut cellar). Continue straight ahead now with the A 2 markings, initially roughly gravelled, then the path format becomes increasingly natural. At the height of a medium-aged spruce forest on the left, the trail changes to a forest path into the forest and later back onto the forest path. There is a crossroads ahead of us. We cross the beautiful little stream of the Neue Schmalenau over the Jännis-Steg, a far too beautiful spot with dammed water and unearthly silence. Uphill on a path to a fork in the trail. Follow the forest path on the left with the familiar markings to the Kreuzeiche forest parking lot. The field cross is there, but the oaks are missing. It is said that the Kreuzeiche once marked a prominent waypoint on a historic trade route. We hike with the A 1 markings around the 370 m high Oerberg, which runs uphill on a path to the left in a valley incision and introduces one of the most beautiful passages of the tour. Now we follow the X 13, which comes from the left.High-stemmed spruce forest, then deciduous forest, then an almost endless passage of forest meadows of a special class. The meadow strip opens up narrowly, bordered by dense forest. The path runs through the middle of it almost to the gates of Neuhaus, another settlement that has its origins in lumberjack activity. On the left is a veritable estate that belonged to the former forest estate and castle of St. Meinolf. The castle itself is just under 1.2 km away in the Hevetal. We hike uphill on the X 13 (the Hanseweg of the SGV) and the Waldroute, initially on a roughly gravelled forest path, later on a typical forest path. Turn right at a refuge before the A 5 and X 26 join from the left and right respectively at a crossroads. We follow the A 5 straight ahead into a valley incision and experience in a short distance how a rivulet becomes a small stream through all kinds of tributaries, which flows into a bay of the Möhnesee. Shortly before the lakeside road, the route turns left onto asphalt and, at the height of a small sailing facility, takes another sharp left uphill on the A 5 (also M, X 13, rhombus etc.). A small stream valley accompanies us on the right. The path climbs steadily. At a bend, turn left onto the A5 and M paths to a refuge. Here we reach the good old acquaintance, the Waldroute, which we follow consistently to the Torhaus parking lot. Past passages that offer a glimpse of the Möhnesee, past several stations of the sound forest installation with forest instruments worth seeing.