Attractions and Places To See around Krickenbach - Top 20

The plaque is embedded in the rock in the Karlstall Gorge near Trippstadt.

In 1862 three majesties, today we would say statesmen, met here

It is a very beautiful and easy to walk tour. It is also suitable for children. (But be careful! There are a lot of small bridges and footbridges over the creek!) Appropriate footwear is recommended. Another tip: Dear hikers, take your used paper handkerchiefs home with you and dispose of them there! I always have a bag with me for my waste! Do it anyway. Thanks!!

Ludwig I. already left here. On August 9, 1862, the Bavarian King, who was enthusiastic about the Palatinate, walked through the Karlstal near Trippstadt together with His Royal Highness, Grand Duke Ludwig III. of Hesse and near the Rhine, and Her Imperial Highness Archduchess Hildegard of Austria. This is confirmed by a cast-iron commemorative plaque embedded in one of the large, green, moss-covered sandstone blocks that lie around in the ravine through which the Moosalb rippled like giant forgotten toys. Source: https://www.rheinpfalz.de/leo-freizeit-news_artikel,-kurztrip-nach-trippstadt-_arid,5133191.html

Historical plaque in the stone.

Impressive little gorge with a great forest and a nice inn.

Very impressive scenery, better on weekdays.

Location: „Tor“(7) 1994 - Works in sandstone and steel Note: This section can be very well combined with the section in Karlstal. The distance between the Alte Schmelze near Stelzenberg and Trippstadt is approx. 5 kilometers. Suitable footwear is recommended for hikers. The route is also very attractive as a bike tour. Description Seven sculptors participated in the 3rd Sculpture Symposium of the association Skulpturenweg Rheinland-Pfalz in late summer 1996. The association's guidelines were limited to formal criteria: the works were to be made of sandstone or steel and rise at least two meters above the ground. The focus of the artistic work of Krefeld professor Hans-Joachim Albrecht is the engagement with the human being. His "Doppelkopf" (1) can be imagined as an encounter between two people: a man and a woman meet at the intersection of several paths. At the edge of Stelzenberg, the eye is suddenly caught by the steel sculpture "Peilung" (2) by Joachim Koch. His sculpture marks the landscape and focuses the gaze as if through a camera viewfinder. Wiesbaden artist Heiner Thiel deals with the interplay of line, surface, and space. If you stand at the right angle in front of the steel sculpture, which weighs over four tons, the four plates standing one behind the other merge into an "Offenes Quadrat" (3). "Balzgeflüster" (4) is the name of Gereon Lepper's two steel tubes, each with a rotatable wing attached to its tip. In the wind, the two wings do not necessarily move synchronously; they "talk" to each other, they "court" each other. Completely different is the "Akkumulator" (5) by Otmar Sattel. The sculpture is a resting stone where the hiker can relax and enjoy a very unusual perspective of the sky. The inlaid copper sheet in the middle transfers the warmth of the sun's rays to the body. Hartmut Stielow describes his works as a search for a new, open order of unstable equilibrium. The materials stone and iron balance each other in his sculpture "O.T." (6): the stone hollows out the iron - the iron encloses the stone. Werner Ratering's sandstone sculpture is specially designed as a "Tor" (7) to a small beech grove. The blue curtain of mortar is gilded on its upper side, as well as the underside of the crossbar. Incident light is reflected, creating a light that does not otherwise occur in nature. (Excerpt from Kulturland.rip.de)