EifelSchleife Frühstücksbuche (Municipality of Nettersheim)

Passing Roman temple complexes and former lime kilns, you reach the Frühstücksbuche, a beech tree group that showed remarkable resilience.

At the beginning of the hike, you pass relics of a lime kiln from the 19th century. Here you see two lime kilns, workshops, and a limestone quarry - a wonderful introduction to the Roman temple complexes of the Görresburg that await you. Here you can enjoy the magnificent Eifel panorama. The three approximately square buildings are surrounded by low walls. In the first century and until about 400 AD, protective and mother goddesses were worshiped here. The deities can be seen on the individual copies of the dedicatory stones. Even today, offerings such as crops and fruit are found in front of these stones.

The Frühstücksbuche was a mighty group of beech trees that withstood the storm Wiebke in 1990. The storm destroyed a large part of the surrounding forest areas. By 1993, a total of 23 hectares of mixed forest consisting of beech, oak, ash, alder, hornbeam, and Douglas fir were replanted. Unfortunately, the beech group had to be felled for safety reasons in 2017. A young copper beech was planted in its place as a replacement.