Schwaneyer Panoramaweg

A good 500 meters further on, you can then decide whether to first make a small detour to the right to the fisherman's hut to take a break or immediately follow the path to the left. After a short, steep climb up the Happenberg (approx. 60 meters in altitude), you will reach station 3 "Fluggelände auf dem Hoppen- oder Happenberg". The name is derived from the cultivation of hops for beer production. Hops thrived exceptionally well on the southern slope. In January 1828, Schwaney citizens tried for the last time to obtain permission to brew beer - in vain. In good summers, grapes also ripened on the climatically favorable slope. Due to the good thermals from the rising heat in the Ellertal valley, model pilots and paragliders have been using the Happenberg as a training ground since the 1990s.

Back downhill you reach station 4 "Kriegereichen" (approx. 20 m to the left). In 1930, Pastor Oberreuter planted 72 oak trees in memory of the dead and missing soldiers of the First World War. He placed a massive oak cross in the middle of the oak grove, which has already been renewed several times. Father Oberreuter caught a severe cold during the planting work, from which he died a short time later as a result of pneumonia.

A little later, you reach station 5 "Antoniusbildstock". After the old chapel from 1750 fell into disrepair, the community erected this wayside shrine on the same site in 1910 in honor of the popular saint Antonius. The stones of the chapel were used as the foundation. According to legend, a shepherd planted an elm tree on this spot around 1750, which had to be felled by the elm splint beetle in 1991. With a height of 32 meters and a trunk circumference of 5.82 meters, it was the mightiest mountain elm in the Paderborn district. St. Anthony of Padua, also known as Klüngelanton, is venerated here. Every year on 13 June, a procession leads here in honor of the saint.

After another 2 kilometers, you will reach station 6 "Limberg". The Limberg is a rapidly rising ridge that runs as far as Buke. It has a height of 321 m at the water reservoir. A cast-iron cross has stood on the hilltop, also known as Hexenplatz, since 1891. The name Hexenplatz (witches' square) is reminiscent of a pagan place of worship or sacrifice. In his book "Schwaney - Zur Geschichte eines tausendjährigen Siedlungsraumes", Schwaney's honorary citizen and author Heinz Küting derives the Latin word "Limes" from the name Limberg: Wall, border wall or also border path. He also writes: "What gives the almost barren Limberge its special character is its strange structure. This unusual stepping of the mountain is by no means a natural product, but the work of human hands.