Liebesweg (Love Lane) Poppenhausen in Poppenhausen, Germany

Since 2012, the village of Poppenhausen has had its own Love Lane, a hiking trail especially for lovers. Located on a trail on a hill above the village in the beautiful Rhön mountains, the 2.5 km trail leads past various installations on the subject of love. The „Liebesweg“ in Poppenhausen was the first love-themed path in Germany. The fact that the love path is, of all places, in Poppenhausen, always causes general amusement and salacious remarks, because "poppen" is a not-so-nice word for making love in German. Of course, the community, which was first mentioned in 826, was not named after t

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