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title: "Nature experience trails on the Trupbacher Heide"
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description: "The circular trails vary in length between five and nine kilometers. They run over large sections with slight elevation differences.The heath landscape, unusual for the forested Siegerland, is the result of decades of use as a military training area. From 1936 to 1993, first German and then Belgian tanks circled here after the war. At the same time, and still today, environmentally friendly grazing with sheep takes place. This ensures the openness of large areas and shapes the character of the poor meadows and rough grasslands. Thus, a variety of animal and plant species can be found here that are no longer present in the more intensively managed surrounding areas.More information about the biological special features of Trupbacher Heide"
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Nature experience trails on the Trupbacher Heide
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- 15.20 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: difficult
- Great panorama
- Hiking

- 4:00 h
- 15.20 km
- 350 m
- 350 m
- 292 m
- 404 m
- 112 m
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- Start: Hiking parking lot Trupbach
- Destination: Hiking parking lot Trupbach

Views of the Siegerland mountains and the city of Siegen, as well as nature unusual for the Siegerland, are offered by the former training area Trupbacher Heide.

The circular trails vary in length between five and nine kilometers. They run over large sections with slight elevation differences.

The heath landscape, unusual for the forested Siegerland, is the result of decades of use as a military training area. From 1936 to 1993, first German and then Belgian tanks circled here after the war. At the same time, and still today, environmentally friendly grazing with sheep takes place. This ensures the openness of large areas and shapes the character of the poor meadows and rough grasslands. Thus, a variety of animal and plant species can be found here that are no longer present in the more intensively managed surrounding areas.

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Tour information

- Loop Road
- Loop Road

Author

Stadtmarketing Siegen GmbH**Annika Oehler**

Organization

Touristikverband Siegen-Wittgenstein e.V.

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    3.43 km
    
    
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Contact

**Stadtmarketing Siegen GmbH**

Kornmarkt 2

57072 Siegen

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