Hiking home and riding home Bleckhausen - The HeimatSpur Wachholder-Kyll-Weg
The Wacholder-Kyll-Weg in Bleckhausen is one of the many traces of home in the Volcanic Eifel. If you take the word "Heimatspur" literally, you are actually looking for the traces of home. However, most hikers of the Wacholder-Kyll-Weg will not live in Bleckhausen or come from there. How then can this place on the Kleine Kyll be home? Well, in principle I am a great friend of the plural of homeland: Heimaten. Of course there is the original home, the place of birth. But we can also feel at home in our adopted country. For example, in vacation spots to which we are drawn again and again. And suddenly there is a second or third home.
Funnily enough, Bleckhausen is actually a kind of home for me. I have spent many shorter and longer vacations in Manderscheid. But I learned to ride with a horse whisperer in Bleckhausen on wonderful Arabian horses. Therefore I was very very often in Bleckhausen many moons ago.
So I learned to love the landscape around Bleckhausen and the Kleine Kyll early on. It's nice to be able to rediscover this soul landscape that is so familiar to me on the Wacholder-Kyll-Weg. We start our 12-kilometer-long tour at the community center and the village church of Bleckhausen. The village center is very well connected to the public transport system with the regional bus 300 between Daun and Wittlich. I suggest we walk the trail clockwise, okay? We hike downhill, soon leaving civilization behind us, and reach the Trombach Valley. This stream flows into the Lieser, which means the legendary Lieserpfad is not far away. I described the Lieserpfad in my first hiking book (and rightly so!) as the most beautiful hiking trail in the world. But before the Trombach joins the Lieser, we hike on our way right out of the valley up to a highlight that even the Lieserpfad doesn't have to offer.
The juniper heath near Bleckhausen is beautiful. Relax on a sensory lounger and simply enjoy this form of landscape. Juniper heaths usually developed near village sites, because that is where the community shepherds herded the sheep and goats of the villagers. Young trees and bushes had no chance on these pastures, they were bitten by the animals. But the prickly juniper plants, they remained untouched and could develop so. We have already reached a certain altitude, so I suggest we allow ourselves (on the Sinnenliege or in the small refuge) a nice summit schnapps. Either we drink ("To the juniper!") in style a gin, or the original juniper schnapps from Holland - a jenever.
On the plain behind the juniper heath, a certain dry stretch awaits us - an asphalted field path, then it goes briefly along the country road. But soon we hike down into the enchanting valley of the Kleine Kyll. The Kleine Kyll rises in Neroth and flows in the direction of Manderscheid. Behind the Heidsmühle, the valley of the Kleine Kyll becomes wild and romantic and finally flows into the Lieser. On our way there are always wonderful views into the valley, to the Bleckhausen mill and to lush green meadows. The Wacholder-Kyll-Weg runs very pleasantly on a half-height, so that we can enjoy the hike in a relaxed way.
At a seating area we can plan a picnic. The familiar marking with the "WK" on green finally leads us out of the valley of the Kleine Kyll and back to our starting point in Bleckhausen. I think you will have a lot of fun on this hiking tour through "my" homeland around Bleckhausen. See you again on the next Heimatspur!
Author: Manuel Andrack
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