Buchholz (Westerwald): Trails, Chapels and Nature

Hiking trails with different levels of difficulty

The four Buchholz circular trails are easy to compare by length and difficulty. The A1 Basalt Trail is 10.0 km long and described as an easy loop. The B1 Barger Heck Trail, at 11.6 km, and the B2 Dreiherrenstein Trail, at 12.5 km, are also easy loops. The B3 Silberberg Trail is 10.7 km long and has a moderate difficulty rating. It is therefore longer than the A1, but shorter than the B1 and B2—and is also rated differently from the three easy loops. So here, length alone does not tell you the same thing as the difficulty rating.

These trails are part of the well-developed, waymarked network of hiking trails in the municipality of Buchholz. It includes trails A1 and B1–B3 and is about 45 km long. The Westerwald Association’s Hiking Trail I offers a different perspective: its 121.6 km route runs from Königswinter to Herborn through the municipality of Buchholz. This puts the local circular trails alongside a much longer route with specified endpoints.

If hiking is to be a key part of your stay, this comparison can also help you choose where to look for a holiday apartment: are you more interested in one of the local circular trails or in Hiking Trail I, which passes through Buchholz? Check the latest local route information before setting out; conditions and waymarking may change.

Chapels, the church tower and moorland

The Marienkapelle is in Sauerwiese, a district of the municipality of Buchholz, on a quiet meadow near the Weißenfels family’s property. It can only be discovered on foot. The Catholic chapel in Oberscheid, another district of Buchholz, has a different story: it was built in 1857 on private initiative and extensively renovated in 1980 by the Oberscheid village community, working on their own. These dates offer a specific point of reference if you are interested in the chapel’s construction and its later preservation.

The church tower of St. Pantaleon is considered a landmark of Buchholz; it is about 44 m high. A natural attraction nearby is the “Buchholzer Moor” nature reserve: it lies about 1 km west of the municipality of Buchholz, directly on the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia, and covers about 3.8 ha. Its core area is moorland. Downy birch, bog birch, eared willow, alder buckthorn and Scots pine predominate in its tree and shrub layer. The church tower and the moor thus represent two very different aspects of the town and its landscape.

More things to explore in Neuwied

The Neuwied destination offers further cultural and historical themes in their own right. The Roentgen-Museum Neuwied has a collection of Roentgen furniture and Kinzing clocks that is unique worldwide. The church in Neuwied-Feldkirchen is more than 800 years old. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Limes, with its watchtowers and forts, also runs through the entire municipal area of Neuwied. These themes range from furniture and clockmaking to church architecture and Roman history, complementing Buchholz’s hiking and local-history attractions with further interests to consider when planning your trip.

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