Attractions and Places To See in Hameln-Pyrmont - Top 20

The Süntel Tower is temporarily closed. It may reopen on April 1st, 2026.

Good footwear and sure-footedness are required, especially when it is damp... But the journey is worth it.

A nice little highlight if you take the ferry across.😃

very useful and cheap, who wants to swim to the other side with their bike?

Small ferry across the Weser, the ferryman is an original and completely relaxed

Nice climb to the tower, great mountain training

A wooden lookout tower was first opened on the Hohe Egge in 1882 – the Augusta Tower. In 1899, after this tower had become dilapidated, work began on the construction of today's Süntelturm made of sandstone. The cornerstone was laid on September 24, 1899; Among others, the heath poet Hermann Löns was present. The construction costs were 7,000 marks. The tower was inaugurated on May 17, 1901. In 1910 the tower got a massive sandstone extension, in which there was a small kitchen, a counter and a guest room. In 1912 the tower received a telephone connection. In 1951, on the 50th anniversary of the tower, all damage caused by age and the effects of the war was repaired. In 1977 the tower was scaffolded to seal joints and cracks in the masonry. In 1985/86 the management was endangered because there were no connections for water, sewage and electricity. The district of Hamelin-Pyrmont and the cities of Hamelin, Bad Münder and Hessisch Oldendorf formed a financing community and began building electricity, water and sewage pipes as well as a sanitary area. The renovated restaurant was inaugurated in 1988. In the same year, the tower and restaurant became the responsibility of the town of Bad Münder. The tower was last renovated in 2010. In 2012, the ascent to the tower was blocked due to the risk of the stairs collapsing. The refurbishment of the staircase was completed in July 2012. The hiking restaurant remained open during this time. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCntelturm

It was the year 1284. As every year, there had been a series of festive days with boisterous activity in Hamelin around St. John's Day. Moving out and moving, especially of young people and children, were the order of the day. In the darkness, the St. John's fires blazed up on the heights of the surrounding mountains. Stimulated by the festivities of the preceding St. John's Day, a large group of children made their way to Ith, just under two miles away, on June 26th in the most beautiful summer weather. Massive and rugged, the massif of the Fahnenstein juts out into the plain on the northern Ith. According to ancient custom, a midsummer bonfire was burned at its height every year, and the youth of Hamelin wanted to be there. With happy playing and singing, we left Hamelin's Easter Gate. A minstrel, a piper, led the long procession of 130 children. The Cobbenberg, as this Ithhöhe is called in the oldest documents, was reached in good time towards evening. At the foot of the Fahnenstein, halfway up the Cobbenberg, lies the eerie devil's kitchen, a formerly swampy rock basin in the middle of steep cliffs. Tradition has it that this place was an old Germanic place of worship and sacrifice. The devil's kitchen at the foot of the flag stone now particularly attracted the leader of the children. Like all members of his guild, he was still excluded from the church and therefore stuck to the old beliefs. The devil's kitchen was dangerous terrain, due to the swamp basin and the steep cliffs from which large blocks had detached over time and today have completely filled the swamp hole. Mysterious mists rose from the bottom, will-o'-the-wisps floated to and fro. As dusk fell, the children feared spooks and ghosts. As if by magic, they pressed forward. As the foremost sank into the swamp, panic set in, and instead of realizing the danger and turning back, those who stayed behind became utterly shy. Partly driven by superstitions, partly in an effort to save their comrades, they pressed forward and thus to perdition. So the sump of the devil's kitchen on the slope of the Cobbenberg, just under two miles east of Hamelin, became the grave of the 130 Hamelin children. https://www.mystic-culture.de/kultplatz/ith/teufelskueche/rattenfaengersage.html