The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Rehburger Berge

after a short hike, the destination with a view is reached

The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Trail in the Rehburg Mountains is a popular themed hiking trail that combines nature and fairy tale culture. Along the way, visitors encounter various stations that pick up on and vividly depict well-known stories by the Brothers Grimm. Figures, panels, and small installations invite you to rediscover the fairy tales in a playful way. At the same time, the trail leads through a varied landscape with forests and hills, which invites exploration and lingering. The fairy tale trail is therefore particularly suitable for families and combines nature experience with cultural education.

Swallows nest in the tower

The eagle hasn't been there for a long time?

The pavilion is named after Duke Frederick of York, 1763-1872. The naming of the building after the son of Princess Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and King George III of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover is further evidence of Bad Rehburg's special connection to the House of Welf. His brother Ernst August, King of Hanover, was also one of the noble spa guests. The Frederick Pavilion was first documented in the building inventory of Bad Rehburg in 1891. It was originally a well house and stood near the springs in the spa facilities. When these dried up, it was moved to the promenades that spa guests used for strolling. The Frederick Pavilion was renovated in 1997 and taken over by the Bad Rehburg Cultural Preservation Association. Today it is primarily used to hold cultural events.

A little girl, to whom her grandmother once gave a red cap, is called Little Red Riding Hood. Her mother sends her to her bedridden grandmother, who lives in a house in the forest, with a basket of treats (cake and wine). Her mother warns Little Red Riding Hood not to stray from the path. In the forest, she gets into a conversation with a wolf. The wolf listens to Little Red Riding Hood and draws her attention to the beautiful flowers in a nearby meadow, whereupon Little Red Riding Hood decides to pick another bouquet, despite her mother's warning. The wolf rushes straight to her grandmother and devours her. He lies down in her bed in her nightgown and waits for Little Red Riding Hood. Soon after, Little Red Riding Hood reaches the house, goes in, and goes to (in Perrault's version) or to (in the Brothers Grimm's version) her grandmother's bed. There, Little Red Riding Hood is surprised by her grandmother's appearance, but does not recognize the wolf before she too is devoured. In Perrault's version, the fairy tale ends here. In the Brothers Grimm, the hunter frees Grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood from the sleeping wolf's belly. Instead, stones are put into the wolf's belly. Because of the weight of the stones, the wolf cannot escape and dies. In an Italian version, The False Grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood frees herself through her own cunning and flees. The wolf then dies. Source: Wikipedia

A chain fairy tale: the story of the chicken that dreams that the sky is falling on its head - and that therefore has to run to Loccum as quickly as possible. It also tells this to the animals that it meets, one after the other, on its way there. And they all share its fear - one after the other - and run with it. Until they meet the fox. And end up in its cave... now it becomes dangerous. Source: https://hoerspiele.dra.de/detailansicht/4935988

The main motif of the fairy tale, the redemption of the enchanted brothers by their only sister, can be found in a whole series of fairy tales, including Basile's fairy tale The Seven Doves, the Grimm fairy tales The Six Swans and The Twelve Brothers, and The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. The birds here probably represent the damnation of souls, the long journey the girl has to go, the guilt that was burdened upon her at birth (see the search hike). The glass mountain stands on the one hand for insurmountability, and on the other hand for clarity (transparent): the girl knows "crystal clear" what she has to do, and by chopping off a finger she is a sacrifice. Source: https://www.maerchenatlas.de/deutsche-maerchen/grimms-marchen/die-sieben-raben/