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.