Joining the Tiefental & the Langenberg Brook

Straight blue was the sky. We left before lunch and went to Dalhausen. From there we would slowly climb up through the Tiefestal. We had already found this narrow dale very charming. A little brook in the middle. Willows, grazing horses in the summertime. High forrested sides of the Steinberg. Following the stream as the dale mounts narrowing in. Suddenly changing the double track into a single footpath. And there we find the joint where coming out of the wilderness the lovely Langenberg brook flows into the Tiefental brook.


In the past as we climbed up along this foottrail we would visit the Eichenhagen Forest and its Recluse Chapel. Now we could clearly recognize where the Langenberger meadows coming from Haarbrück finally end down into the Tiefental. Here we crossed the border fences and started to climb the steep slope of the Haarbrücker Langenberg. And again we laid down in the grass to listen to this wonderfully murmuring brook. A bit in the shadow. The sun was blazing. You could have dreamed away. Memories came up. Laying in the moss near a stream in the Highlands, Strathconnon on the river Meig. More than fourty years ago.

We had to leave and then find a new way up and back down through the forest towards Dalhausen. Well, finally we did arrive back in the Tiefental. But how! Our map really was not accurate and we did a lot of triyng and erring. But what an adventure. As we could then slowly return towards the entrance of the village, the goats were there. Lying lazy in the shadow. In the morning they had been busy grazing under a tree. Quite a different program for the day. Next time we do the grazing and lazing and you do the climbing and erring, heh.