Stamping point 212 / An der Queste

The „Queste“, an ancient symbol of the sun, stands on a ridge southwest of the small village of Questenberg.

From the Ques­ten­berg, which was declared a natu­re reser­ve in 1927, the­re is a fan­ta­stic view of the vil­la­ge, which lies around 100 meters below, and the sur­roun­ding moun­ta­ins and val­leys. A trunk was erec­ted on the top of the moun­tain, which bears a pecu­li­ar­ly craf­ted wreath. The Ques­te is at the cen­ter of a lar­ge folk fes­ti­val, which is cele­bra­ted every year at Whits­un with the par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on of the enti­re vil­la­ge. The fes­ti­val pro­ba­b­ly goes back to a pagan sun ritual. 

Pre­his­to­ric and ear­ly his­to­ri­cal sites, a medieval feu­dal cast­le, beau­tiful half-tim­be­red archi­tec­tu­re, monu­ments to legal histo­ry and the old tra­di­ti­on of the Ques­ten­fest cha­rac­te­ri­ze this place in many ways. Ques­ten­berg is char­mingly situa­ted in the midd­le of the Nas­se breakth­rough val­ley, which has cut through the stee­p­ly rising rocks to the right and left of the village. 

The high medieval Ques­ten­burg cast­le is loca­ted direct­ly north of the vil­la­ge on a spur of land. The first docu­men­ta­ry men­ti­on of a cast­le lord, the squi­re Fri­de­ri­cus de Ques­ten­berg, dates back to 1275. 

The so-cal­led „gla­cial pot­ho­les“ are loca­ted on the ascent. Con­tra­ry to the ori­gi­nal assump­ti­on, the­se are not gla­cial pot­ho­les from the Ice Age, but the for­mer river­bed of the Nas­se, which has chan­ged its cour­se over hundreds of years. From this point, the path leads up the moun­tain via steps and inclines. 

A good start­ing point is the par­king lot at the „Gast­haus zur Ques­te“, from which you always fol­low the Ques­te symbol.

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