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The Black Forest Highlands Shepherd’s Trail [Hochschwarzwälder Hirtenpfad] is an 8 km long, topclass hiking trail that leads you along blooming meadows and airy forest outskirts all around the typical Black Forest hamlet of Raitenbuch.
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Children have kept cattle herds for centuries, including here in the Black Forest. As shepherds boys mainly boys came to the Black Forest farms, because their own, large families were happy for each eater less. They were 7 to 14 years old. They worked and studied for 12 to 15 hours a day, away from their families. In wind and weather they were on the move, mostly barefoot. Childhood, marked by privation and hard work, as we can no longer imagine today. The rural life on the "high forest" before 1960 was modest and hard and still no place "where others went on holiday". Particularly touching is the life of the children who managed to hunch around. Only with the arrival of the electric fence and a changed consciousness in Germany for the importance of childhood this form of child labor stopped here around 1965. The Black Forest Highlands Shepherd’s Trail follows the path of the shepherd boys along the high pastures. The stories of former shepherd boys leave their sign on the way. Other tracks in the terrain are more powerful: first, glaciers pushed rocks and formed valleys and lakes, then people worked on the ground: they cleared, plowed, planted, harvested, cultivated and set boundaries.
"Open your eyes" in the high black forests Premium hiking trails. Because on every way there is a stamp point in the form of a cuckoo clock. These offer the opportunity to document the hikes by stamp in the Hochschwarzwälder Wanderpass. Further information can be found at https:
For a subsequent retreat, the Köhlerei, which is beautifully situated on the Windgfällweiher in the direction to Altglashütten.
We recommend sturdy shoes!
Due to pasture farming, please take dogs on a leash.
Further pleasure walks in the Black Forest can be found at www.hochschwarzwald.de/geniesserpfade