TERRA.track Kellenberg

Two differently exciting quarries are connected by the almost eight-kilometer circular path around the two Kellenberge mountains - the Small one rises 145 meters, the Big Kellenberg more than 210 meters. About 100 years ago, stones for building houses and roads were still being extracted at both sites. In doing so, the workers in the Barkhausen district of Bad Essen discovered fossilized tracks of at least eleven different dinosaurs. Life-size replicas show what the animals looked like. Information panels from the TERRA.vita Nature and UNESCO Geopark explain why the footprints survived the millions of years on the once soft seashore, making an exciting chapter of the Earth's history experienceable here.

Traces of the former work are no longer visible at all in the second former quarry today. This is because the Dücke-Mühlenbach plunges five meters deep into the abandoned pit, feeding the Green Lake. Its unmistakable turquoise shimmer is due to dissolved minerals.

The paths between the two quarries lead through beautiful, forested natural landscapes and to a particularly beautiful viewpoint that offers an unobstructed view of the neighboring community of Melle.

You can find a detailed description in the tour planner of the TERRA.vita Nature and Geopark.