Vitaltour Geheimnisvoller Lemberg

Shortly before the entrance to the Lemberghütte's vineyard and beer garden, enter the Vital Tour on the right-hand side and after just a few meters you will reach the first vantage point. In the further course of the path you will repeatedly pass places that give you a wonderful view of the Nahe. After a zigzag path you will reach a crossroads. Countless paths meet here. Keep right at the lorry and follow "Werner Ingebrand Allee". Tunnel openings and air shafts are always hidden to the left and right in the forest. Please do not leave the paths! Keep to the right at the "Förster Wenz Eiche" and after a few meters you are in the middle of former vineyard terraces with a view of Feilbingert. A short, steep descent into the Wildenbach valley follows. The "Landhotel & Waldgasthaus Lembergblick" is right in front of you and invites you to take a break! Go in the direction of "Landhotel & Waldgasthaus Lembergblick" and cross the bridge over the Trombach, past a nice rest area with a wayside cross. Now walk below the hotel through the forest until you come to the main access road, where you keep to the left. Above the hotel you walk through a small forest and have another beautiful view of the Lemberg. You are now on the connecting piece of the Panoramaweg, which connects Bad Kreuznach with the Panoramaweg Feilbingert. At the next turn, keep left and go downhill onto the access road to Trombacher Hof. Keep to the left here. The path leads you to the historic Trombacher Hof (former monastery, now privately owned).

You bypass the farm via a narrow path and reach the wild and romantic Trombachklamm - always following the rushing Trombach. After a few hundred meters the path forks. Keep left if you want to continue the tour. Turn right if you want to see the Schinderhannesloch. According to legend, the famous robber from the Hunsrück hid here for some time. This is where the new "Vitaltour Ebernburg" branches off (as of June 2018). Back on the "Vital Tour Mysterious Lemberg" you follow the Trombach over bridges and through furrows and finally come to a crossroads. This is also where the next entry point into the circular route is (parking at the train station, Niederhausen/Nahe). Following the path to the right, after only 200 meters you will come to the dammed Nahe river in Niederhausen. On the reservoir there is a training course for Bad Kreuznach rowers and canoeists. However, we follow the signpost to the left "Schmittenstollen visitor mine" and after a short while we reach the "enchanted" Lemberggeisterweg with beautiful carvings and great views of the reservoir and Niederhausen. After a few minutes you have reached the Schmittenstollen visitor mine - the only mercury mine in Western Europe that has been expanded into a visitor mine. Here it is a good idea to take the next break. A tour of the mine and the small museum are highly recommended. After that, the children enjoy the pit playground and gem searching, while the adults enjoy a Nahe wine. It's hard to leave this beautiful place. But there are still many highlights waiting for you. After the mine site, it goes a few meters very steeply uphill until you turn sharp right onto a forest path. At the next crossroads, take the lower left path, which soon becomes a narrow path and takes you through an old quarry.

The path gets narrower and narrower - past the foundations of the old cable car that brought the ore to the Nahe loading station during the last mining period. The path meanders along the mountain and there are always magnificent views of the Nahe valley. Here at the latest your sure-footedness is required, because the path leads over rocky ground and through untouched nature! Please stay on the path! At a hairpin bend, a small bench in the middle of rocks invites you to stop. Enjoy the unobstructed view of the local communities of Niederhausen (right) and Oberhausen (left). The path is now so narrow that oncoming hikers can hardly avoid it. The path now leads back into the forest and after a few hundred meters you will come across the zigzag path that connects Oberhausen with the Lemberghütte. Up and after just three hairpin bends, turn right onto a path that will take you past other mining relics after a few hundred meters and give you a breathtaking panorama and nature experience. Wild orchids grow here, the almost extinct and therefore famous diptam; countless species of lizards and various species of snakes live here. A unique experience that has made Lemberg so famous with its nature reserve. Important: do not leave the paths: nature reserve and dangerous scree from the former quarries!

The path widens again and takes you to the place where the rocks from the open pit used to be cut and then loaded onto trucks. Relics such as spoil heaps, the "electricity distributor house" and the foundations of the loading ramp for the trucks are still clearly visible today. We cross the large parking lot and see the ruins of the old crusher sticking out of the trees on the left. Over a few steps we reach the old transport road that connected the quarries of the last mining period. Keep left after the steps and after 100 meters you will reach the turnoff to the Silbersee, which you should not miss. "Bathing is forbidden here!" - that's a good thing, because the lake is part of the nature reserve! Follow the course of the former transport road. Nature has long since taken back what is hers. Here and there are old bunkers and shelters that protected the miners from blasting. Before you hike into the forest, you have another chance to take a look at the Montfort castle ruins on the left. You pass more quarries (not accessible - nature reserve!). The path becomes narrower again and ends in a small path that takes you after a few minutes to the starting point of your hike - the Lemberghütte - with what is probably the most beautiful view of the Nahe Valley! The Romans already knew of the magical attraction of Lemberg and built a small Mercury temple here, which is commemorated by a stone stele. The Lemberghütte offers hearty cuisine and refreshing drinks for hikers. Insider tip: Come back here one evening and enjoy the sunset with a glass of Nahe wine on the viewing terrace!