Black Powder Route Odenthal

2: 40 pm
9,13 km
213 m
213 m
102 m
229 m
127 m
Start: Reisegarten Schöllerhof
Destination: Schöllerhof Travel Garden

Following the trail of earlier gunpowder transports

Beautiful hiking trails wind through the Dhünn and Eifgenbach valleys. Few would suspect that this was once a center of the gunpowder industry. Where hikers now seek relaxation, factories stood until 1919, harnessing water power to produce gunpowder in their mills. The observant hiker can discover the remains of these mills, watercourses, and weirs from that era in the Helenental valley.

Powder Route marker

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Directions

The hike starts at the Schöllerhof farm. The route leads via Loosenau, at the foot of the Dhünn reservoir, to Groß Grimberg and back to the Schöllerhof. Follow the trail marker "P" along the entire route; this marker was formerly used to indicate powder transports.

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