Old Railway Track – Bridge over the Brühlbach loop from Holzbach

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Old Railway Track – Bridge over the Brühlbach loop from Holzbach

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Old Railway Track – Bridge over the Brühlbach loop from Holzbach

06:10

22.5km

360m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 23, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

Please check local regulations for:

Naturpark Soonwald-Nahe

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.38 km

Tiefenbacher Hof Restaurant

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Hotel with restaurant.
Prices very moderate:
Soups € 3.50
Schnitzel 12-14 €
Beef fillet steak 20 €

Rooms from 40 €

tiefenbach-hunsrueck.de/index.php/tourismus-menue/gastronomie-uebernachtungen
(Currently offline 12/2019)
Tel .: 06761/2759

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3.73 km

Wetland Biotope (Nature Discovery Area Schinderhannes)

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At the moment it is also quite dry in the wet biotope. There was no sign of the inhabitants of the pond, and nothing to hear either.

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3.85 km

Nature Experience Station Sargenroth/Tiefenbach

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The Sargenroth / Tiefenbach nature experience station not far from the Brühlbach offers forest visitors lots of interesting information and is used by the Forest Service for forest education activities. …

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7.84 km

Old Railway Track

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wonderful to walk through here

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8.28 km

Bridge over the Brühlbach

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The Brühlbach is crossed here in a fairly natural floodplain.

Note for discoverers: Less than 20m down the stream there is the entrance to a short tunnel, which is difficult to reach due to the dense and adverse vegetation.

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11.6 km

Eisengrube Märkerei Mine Entrance

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From the area of the Märkerei iron mine located slightly above, the former mine area is drained through this inheritance tunnel (“inherits” the water from the other mining tunnels). In …

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16.3 km

Pond with Three Islands

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Quite a large accessible pond with several birch-covered islets, two small near the path, a large one at the far end of the pond.

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17.6 km

Bee House Made of Tree Trunks

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The purpose of the house, which was built from two tribes, only becomes apparent when you explore it more closely.
There is a closed door on one side of the …

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22.5 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

20.1 km

1.76 km

358 m

249 m

Surfaces

7.01 km

6.03 km

5.79 km

2.26 km

1.35 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (560 m)

Lowest point (340 m)

Weather

Thursday 29 October

11°C

4°C

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Comments

August 16, 2025,2025-08-16 Rheinland-Pfalz_Hunsrück_DVV Tiefenbach

An organized hiking trail in the Soonewald Forest with a good climb, which we mastered confidently and quite quickly. However, we had the overall impression that the German Village Association (DVV) hike was just a side event, and the hikers were a bit of a nuisance due to the actual village association festival with the subsequent beer hike. The advertised …

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