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title: "X3 - Cheruskerweg"
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description: "After a short visit to the WALK hiking competence center and an ascent of the Hermann monument with its panoramic views, we start our hike down into the town of Detmold towards the LWL open-air museum, the largest open-air museum in Germany at around 90 hectares. Along the Friedrichstal Canal and the moat, we reach the Princely Residence Palace and pass the state theater (built in 1825 by"
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X3 - Cheruskerweg
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- 68.98 km long
- Difficulty: medium
- Condition: medium
- Great panorama
- Long-distance hiking trail

Hermannsdenkmal

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- 19:50 h
- 68.98 km
- 1,454 m
- 1,587 m
- 48 m
- 382 m
- 334 m
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- Start: Grotenburg 50, 32760 Detmold
- Destination: Wiehengebirgskamm - connection to European long-distance hiking trail 11, Wittekindsweg

The X3 - Cheruskerweg, a main hiking trail of the Teutoburg Forest Association, connects one of the most famous German monuments, the "Hermannsdenkmal" in Lippe, with the traditional spa town of Oeynhausen and leads up to the Wiehengebirg ridge. The Cheruskerweg connects the European long-distance hiking trails E 1 (North Cape-Sicily) and E 11 (The Hague-Talinn (Estonia).

 After a short visit to the WALK hiking competence center and an ascent of the Hermann monument with its panoramic views, we start our hike down into the town of Detmold towards the LWL open-air museum, the largest open-air museum in Germany at around 90 hectares. Along the Friedrichstal Canal and the moat, we reach the Princely Residence Palace and pass the state theater (built in 1825 by 

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Wanderzeichen des Cheruskerwegs X3, bekannt für wunderschöne Routen im Teutoburger Wald.

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Route markings

X3

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Tour information

- Culinary Interesting
- Cultural Interesting
- Labelling
- Multiday Tour
- Nature Highlight
- Summit

Directions & Parking facilities

**Parking**There are several free parking spaces for hikers below the Hermann monument:
- Denkmalstraße via the Heiligenkirchen bird park towards the Hermann monument
- near Haus des Gastes, Hiddesen, Hindenburgstraße

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License (master data)

Lippe Tourismus & Marketing GmbH

Contact

32760 Detmold

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