Warstein trail of mining history

The Montan hiking trail leads from Warstein to the district of Belecke. The return journey can easily be made using the regional bus service. It starts in the street Am Hillenberg directly on the Wester (which is actually still called Wäster in Warstein, but we don't want to confuse the reader). We follow the Wester until shortly after the Maria Hilf hospital, cross the Wester on Müschederweg and stay on the main road until Rangestraße.Later, we take Suttrop Weg up to the Oberhagen nature reserve. The first ironworks in the Warstein area was built here in Oberhagen in the 14th century. Limestone was later quarried and today the area is protected and home to barberry and Turk's cap lily, among others.Oberhagen is home to one of the most important mining monuments in the Sauerland, the collapsed pits and shafts of the former Rom mine, which are up to ten meters deep and fenced off for safety reasons.Rewarded with some beautiful views of Warstein, you then return to the Wester valley. You head for the Kupferhammer. Haus Kupferhammer is a baroque building from the 18th century, which now houses the Warstein town museum. Here you can also learn a lot about the history of the mining industry in the northern Sauerland.You then hike through the Westertal valley, which is also a nature reserve here, up to Belecke, where the Wester flows into the Möhne and the Möhne forms a natural border separating the Sauerland from the Hellwegbörde in the north. The Montan hiking trail ends at Stütings Mühle, a pretty grain and saw mill that was operated as such from the 14th century until 1963.