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Roman, Middle Ages, modern times

Whole distance: 9.5 kilometres, 100 metres height
Pure walking time: two hours
Partly wet and for baby carriage inexpedient ways.

Our today's hike leads us on Roman and medieval tracks, but also to extremely modern buildings. The journey occurs about old town after grove Limes / Rommelhausen.

We park in the end of the town on the left in the sports field. In the club house of the sports field a path leads out us in parallel with the street from the place. Here we already see the first signs of a forest teaching path which will also accompany a piece of the way to us. We have run just once 300 metres, there we already meet the first attraction of our today's hike. The fact that the Romans have left her tracks in the Wetterau everywhere, this knows everybody. Nevertheless, mostly such legacies are only difficult to recognise and rather something for specialists, how archeologists. Here in Limeshain, the name already points to it, has run not only the Limes, here the Roman border embankment a small piece was reconstructed.

The Wetterau was even then a very much popular man-made landscape with the valuable farmlands which wanted to protect the Romans to themselves. Once the border embankment protected the Roman culture against the barbarian Teutons.

Now we turn away from the street and go a long way by a wonderful mixed forest. The Limes runs here to the right of the way in the form of an about 1 metre high elevation. We follow the comfortable forest way a good two kilometres and cross occasionally the border of a circle and go a piece in the area of the Main Kinzig Kreis.

Occasionally we can still admire a nice piece of art of the bet-rough of cultural prizewinner Jox shoemaker. He has installed here in the middle of the wood a Roman sword and sign in substantial size. Soon we come to the mighty Drususeiche which carries the name of the Roman general who has conducted several campaigns against Germanic trunks.

We follow our way still a small piece to us to us at the edge of the forest sharply to the left turn. The regional park RheinMain has furnished here a nice resting place. The first break offers here. Besides, one can nicely ponder the lines of Erasmus Alberus, the big son of the Wetterau. He sealed nearly 500 years ago about the transitoriness with the help of the Roman Limes and the time which eats, finally, everything. In case of the Roman Limes this is not, admittedly, in such a way. He is distinguished by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage. A big obligation, not only for the Wetterau, but for the whole of Europe to receive this valuable historic architectural monument also for the following generations.

Now we go a piece at the edge of the forest and experience a cultural contrast matchlessly: On the left the wood with his Limes which separated once Roman and Teutons. On the right in some distance we hear the highway which gives an understanding today of the people in Europe to each other. We still pass the paddock and then go a piece by the free field hall. Before ourselves we see the industrial area of Langen-Bergheim. In the hedge we go on the left up to the property enclosed with a wall. Here we turn on the right and go on a tarred way on which we soon cross the highway.

We still keep a small piece straight ahead and admire the marvellous view in the direction of the Büdinger hill country. After a small piece the asphalt way makes a link crease which we follow and go then in the direction of the Limeshainer district of brook Him. Here we bump into an other attraction of the way, namely the Bonifatius route. The distance on which the corpse of the patron saint of the Germans was transferred after his murder by the Frisians from Mainz to Fulda. Here we go to the left

Except the historical relation this part of the way offers for the pleasure traveller, admittedly, a little - one refrains of some weird architectural specific features which one meets here. Beside a spacious single-family dwelling in the style of a medieval castle Trutz we come to a piece of Great Wall of China with dragon and Far Eastern ornaments. Who loves the Chinese kitchen, should call in here.

We cross the second spot the highway and immediately behind it in the traffic light Landesstrasse. After few metres a cycle track sign shows us to the left in the direction of Langen-Bergheim. We follow this cycle track a good 1 kilometre long and come again to the wood. At the first crossroad in the wood we go in an amphibian pond on the right. Here can rest splendidly. If our small cotravellers still have energy, here they can let off steam once again so properly. The high Buchenwald is wonderfully suited for nice hide-and-seeks. We go for about 500 metres by this wood. At the second crossroad we go on the right and immediately again on the left on a small path which leads us after few metres to the car.

An earthwork, a two-metre-deep ditch and a 2.50-metre-high palisade fence made easier the defence of her area to the Romans and her reinforcements.

An earthwork, a two-metre-deep ditch and a 2.50-metre-high palisade fence made easier the defence of her area to the Romans and her reinforcements.  

Today a marvellous forrest is walked through