Diemelsee: Hiking and Swimming in Focus

The Diemelsteig trail runs through Heringhausen

The Diemelsteig trail runs right through Heringhausen and around Diemelsee. Its route therefore connects the village with a trail around the lake. If you enjoy walking, you can make the trail a focus of your stay; Heringhausen is a named place along its route. The trail offers a different perspective on Diemelsee from a stay centred mainly on a single swimming spot. This lets you include hiking in your holiday plans without committing the entire stay to just one activity.

Swimming at the Seebrücke/Hohes Rad beach

The Seebrücke/Hohes Rad beach is in Heringhausen; the swimming area of this name is right in the village. The facilities at Heringhausen beach include free use of a large water slide. Check local notices for temporary restrictions before your visit. As a swimming spot, the beach offers a clear contrast to the Diemelsteig: here, the focus is on one specific place, while the trail runs through Heringhausen and around the lake. This makes hiking and swimming two distinct priorities to consider when planning your trip.

When looking for a holiday apartment in Diemelsee, it helps to decide whether hiking or swimming should be the focus of your holiday. This priority gives your choice of location direction and lets you compare possible places to stay based on your interests. If several people are planning together, choosing between a trail and a swimming spot can be a useful starting point before you settle on a particular kind of holiday.

Waldeck-Frankenberg: more nature and culture to explore

The wider travel destination of Waldeck-Frankenberg offers more nature and culture to explore. The ancient beech forests of Kellerwald-Edersee National Park have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011. The 66-kilometre Urwaldsteig Edersee trail can be walked in eight stages or as part of a three-day ranger-guided hike; in the latter, each stage covers around 22 kilometres. This gives you a choice between spreading the walk over several stages and a three-day hiking format.

The GeoFoyer Kalkturm Korbach offers a different way to explore the area. It covers the landscape and wildlife around Korbach 250 million years ago, as well as the extraction and processing of limestone. The exhibition also covers its industrial use in the quarry for more than 100 years. The focus here is therefore on geological history and limestone, rather than on a hiking trail.

The Historic Town Hall in Frankenberg (Eder) also connects a specific building with local history: the half-timbered town hall dates from 1509 and has ten towers representing the town's ten guilds. The weekly farmers' market is held every Saturday at the Rathausschirn. Check the date before travelling. The building and the market offer two different reasons to visit Frankenberg (Eder): its historic town hall and a recurring market day.

The Allendorf (Eder) multigenerational park has 28 stations across an area of around 3,000 square metres for activities and communication between generations. The “Im Ried” dirt-bike facility in the park has trails of varying difficulty and a pump track; it opened in October 2017. The park therefore offers both stations for activities people can enjoy together and a dedicated dirt-bike facility.

Discover more places: Stormbruch, Heringhausen, Ottlar, Adorf and Schweinsbühl.

Discover more destinations: Hatzfeld, Diemelstadt and Volkmarsen.

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