The checky Bingen Waldmaus

In 1998 the experience path was created for the target group: families with children. The path is a circular tour of 5.5 kilometres in length. During this walk 24 individually designed topic tables explain the concrete local life in the wood on the slopes of the Rhine. An insight is provided into the daily lives and the history of people for whom the wood was a foundation of their lives, and still is, whereas other locations supply an insight and details of a lively and cultural life. There are also 13 signs showing the different kinds of trees, which supply unusual information about the sorts of trees seen in the Bingen Wood.
The cheeky Bingen Waldmaus (Wood Mouse) shows the correct way to go and invites children to follow the experience path. With its help it is possible to see how great, great grandfather worked in the wood. Discover who lives in the oak trunk, and be amazed at how it appeared in ancient times and guess which trees grow in the Bingen Wood. A dam runs in the middle of a natural mixed wood of beach trees, rowan trees, aspens and willows, and under their protection there are bird oaks and copper beeches. The “natural wood” provides a fascinating insight into the experience, so to say the children will be on familiar terms with what they see. In the long-jump mastership children can compare themselves with the mouse, squirrel or deer.
A particular attraction is the forest xylophone. On various wooden instruments children can create various sounds and rhythms, which can be heard throughout the wood. A new addition is the 40-metre-long hanging bridge over the 4-metre-deep the Kreuzbach gorge, which connects the experience path with the forest botanical garden.
Since April 1999 the Roman “Villa Rustica” has been excavated, which is incorporated into the experience path as a sign of life in Roman days (“near the Roman road”). We hope visitors will look at the graveyard and inform themselves about the agreements concerning the site. Due to the proximity to the Celtic hill and regal grave as well as the ring-walls there is the intact part of the Roman road (location: “Where reinforcements came”), Rupertsberg and Hildegard von Bingen, the castles in the Rhine Valley and the industrial monument Amalienhöhe (location: “can see seen from afar”), which allows visitors to submerge in the settlements and the use of the wood in the last 4,000 years.