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About 2500 years ago there was a Celtic urbanisation with pastures on the Dietzenley. The Celtic urbanisation was protected by ring walls of up to 9 meters high and 4 meters wide against attacks.During the volcanic activity around 600.000 years ago, the area around the Dietzenley was covered with volcanic rocks. These rocks are used by the Celtics to build the ring walls.

Discover a small natural monument of a special kind on the outskirts of Bad Bertrich: the “Elfengrotte”, also called “Käsegrotte”. It originated a thousand years ago, when hot basalt currents flowed through the Üssbach valley and gave the valley a new shape. Located not far from the rushing Elbesbach waterfall, the Elfengrotte has a fairy-tale magic that you should explore.

You will find the the geological field with "Geodrom" in the vulcano "Kasselburger Hahn". For families with children it offers the possibility to explore the four main rock types of the Vulkaneifel. Geo-bags can be purchased for €9.50 from the Gerolstein Tourist Information Centre.  

The Hochkelberg, is at 675 metres, one of the ten highest mountains in the Volcanic Eifel. It is a former layered volcano and the Mosbrucher pond lies at the south side . Below its summit, there is a transmitter tower now.

This Eifel view on the Mausauel, above the Obermaubach reservoir, is at an altitude of 250 m above sea level and offers you a view in a northern (western) direction beyond the reservoir to the last hills of the northern Eifel before the transition to the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde. Übersetzt mit DeepL Translate