Höhen- und Panoramaweg Kreuzweg Jakobsberg

The Way of the Cross runs along the steep slope of the Kiepenberg and continues along a path that leads across the Jakobsberg plateau with its unique views. The approximately 3 km long hiking route opens up a total area of almost 3,000 km². Apart from a short steep section, the trail is easy to walk.

While resting on the bench behind the eleventh station, your gaze falls straight ahead onto Dalhausen, situated deep in the Bever valley and literally girdled by steep mountain slopes with gorge-like side valleys. To the left - in a southerly direction: the 303 m high Kreihenberg, which is becoming more and more scrubby; to the right - in a northerly direction - the 328 m high Schnegelberg. If you look straight ahead to the west, you will see the approximately 262 m high Borgholzer Berg. It seems to block the Dalhausen basin like a bar.

A wonderful panoramic view awaits you approx. 50 m after the TV converter. The edge of the village of Haarbrück borders the field of view diagonally to the left, but the Haarbrücker Höhe is overlooked over the forest on the southern horizon by some basalt heads of the volcanic mountains of the Hessian highlands.

If you look further to the right, the Desenberg emerges from the plain of the Warburger Börde.

Over Dalhausen and the Borgholzer Berg, the Warburger Land expands further to the southwest and west, where the villages of Natzungen and Borgholz with their church towers catch the eye from left to right in the foreground. Even further to the west, the Eggegebirge mountain range stretches from south to north like a 300 to 450 m high bar.

If you look more to the southwest again, the horizon is bordered by the numerous individual mountains of the Sauerland, which then merge into a mighty mountain block in view of the distance of more than 60 km as the crow flies.

From your position almost in the middle, you can see over the village of Eissen (Eissen is easy to locate. Take another look at Borgholz. Natzungen opens up to the left and further diagonally to the left - but more in the background - Eissen can also be seen).

If you take another look to the right at the Eggegebirg ridge, you will also discover the approximately 150 m high television tower, at the foot of which lies the town of Willebadessen.

Towards the right - right in the foreground of the Egge - you can see Auenhausen with its striking round dome, under which radar screens rotate. Until 1993, the bunker below was still used by a radar guidance unit of the German Armed Forces; today, however, the data is fed electronically to a distant station.

The ruined tower - in front of the dome, so to speak - is a guard tower, also known by locals as the "Mäuseturm" (mouse tower), part of a 15th century land defense.

After following the asphalt path for around 200 m and turning right at the fork in the path, you will be presented with a new panorama: to the north, the Köterberg, the "Brocken of the Weserbergland", the highest elevation in the Höxter district at 497 m, appears on the horizon. The unwooded top of the Köterberg, which is built up in steps, is dominated by an 80 m high telecommunications tower. In the foreground of the Köterberg and to the right, the steep slopes of Brunsberg and Ziegenberg can be seen sloping down to the Weser valley near Höxter.

But now to the Weser valley, which opens up before you. Deep in the wide basin of the Weser lies the town of Beverungen, around 240 m lower than your location. Only the north-east of the town catches your eye, with the 42 m high grain silo, which has become a landmark of Beverungen, standing out directly on the Weser. Incidentally, the curve of the Weser can be seen particularly well, as it first flows eastwards and then northwards again.

The landscape beyond the Weser is dominated by the gently rising Solling massif, which is then replaced to the right by the heights of the more fragmented Reinhardswald forest. To the north-east of Beverungen, on the valley floor of the Weser, you will find the small village of Meinbrexen, above which you can discover the tranquil Solling village of Derental. Even further east, the white television tower near Neuhaus im Solling catches the eye on the horizon.