Trödelsteine (rock formation)

The Trödelsteine form several small basalt crags and, below them, a column and blockfield of feldspar basalt, which was broken here during the Tertiary by the basement.

The Trödelsteine are basaltic, volcanic domes (lava domes). Unlike the Westerwald, where an unbroken basalt layer formed, here only individual lava domes formed (cryptodomes). From the type of rock groups one can clearly reconstruct three different eruptions (vulcanite) , which were pushed up by the underlying Devonian basement.^[2]

On the northeastern slopes of the Trödelsteine there are several trees, the southwestern mountainside is completed forested.

On the Trödelsteine is a narrow footpath, which is part of the Trödelstein Path (Trödelsteinpfad), a 10.2-kilometre-long branch of the Rothaarsteig. The E1 European long distance path runs over the mountain, crossing the road at the state border. On the E1, about 250 metres from the rocks, stands a refuge hut, An den Trödelsteinen, which was erected in 2004 by members of the Westerwald Club. Also running past the rocks are the Heller Ridgeway (Hellerhöhenweg, waymark "H") and Siegerland High Ring (Siegerland-Höhenring).

50°43′42.1″N 8°2′13.8″E / 50.728361°N 8.037167°E / 50.728361; 8.037167