X10 - Lönspfad

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45.42 km long

Difficulty: medium

condition: medium

Long-distance hiking trail

13:02 h
973 m
962 m
179 m
442 m
263 m
45.42 km
Start: Town Hall Square, 33813 Oerlinghausen
Destination: Leopoldstal train station, 32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg

The X10 - Lönspfad, named after the nature and local poet Hermann Löns, connects the mountain town of Oerlinghausen along the northern edge of the Sennerand through the Silberbachtal valley with the small village of Leopoldstal (Horn-Bad Meinberg) to the east of the Lippische Velmerstot.

The first athletic challenge is the 250 steps of the ladder to heaven.
Over the Tönsberg, past the archaeological open-air museum, through the area of the Senne large-scale nature conservation project, we hike north of the Stapelager Senne (military training area) towards Augustdorf.

Over a pass between the Grosser Ehberg and Allhornsberg, we descend to the Lopshorner Allee. The trail continues to the Teutoburg Forest transmitter on the Bielstein, past the Dreiflußstein (watershed Weser, Ems, Rhine) through an avenue of chestnut trees towards Hangstein. East of Detmold-Berlebeck, we turn south, crossing the second highest point north of the Winnfeld plateau at 412 m to reach the Kreuzkrug in Schlangen-Oesterholz.
We pass the former Starke watermill in Kohlstädt, first mentioned in 1036 as Colstidi, via the Oesterholz archaeological nature trail, past burial mounds from the Bronze Age. On the section of the trail south of the Hohlsteinhöhle cave, we reach the highest point of our hike at approx. 430 m. The last section of the trail leads us past the former Kattenmühle mill through the romantic Silberbachtal valley, a link to the Eggegebirge mountains, through Leopoldstal to the train station, the destination of our hike.