Those naktivites in Münsterland in June / July, which had to be abandoned or cancelled, are now put onto the agenda again at end of August expecting more stable weather conditions.
► Thu 24 Aug: Nude hike tour in the Hohe Ward [24 August 2017]
The thermometer showed 20°C, as 20 nude hikers undressed at the car park and started their hike. The sun peered through the clouds only from time to time and so it took some time to warm the air up to 24°C in the afternoon. The participants got an impression of how intensively the area is used for water catchment. Everywhere, you encountered fountains and place of sampling, i.e. to measure the quality of the water. At the water works, constructed in 1908, you could taste a dram.
But the city of Münster also considers the health of hikers and walkers in the forest and warns that the oak procession moth can cause allergies and health problems. A creepy story is also told by the bronze plaque on the Freistuhl, a former court place, where 13 skulls were found, which, in the truest sense of the word, were literally muzzled by a nail driven downwards through the skull, which was than bent below the chin – someday at the end of the Middle Ages.
Finally,the group reached the Dortmund-Ems Canal near of the railway bridge of the Hamm-Münster train line, where some of the participants enjoyed a cooling in the water. At the end of the day, the restaurant Prinzenbrücke had an adequate, delicious refreshment after the hike of 17 km.
► Thu 24 Aug: A nude hiker encounters a clothed cell phone in the Hohe Ward and feels happy to be able to return it to the woman who lost it [25 August 2017]
On Thursday evening, an e-mail arrived at natury: "We have probably met a group of you in Hiltruper Wald this morning. My friend lost his cell phone during our walk and hopes that one of the hikers might have found the cell phone.".
The mail survey to all migrant participants yielded the answer of Jens: "… then it is probably the cell phone of your friend, which I found. As I passed the place as the third of our group, I have asked only the two people in front of, if they missed the phone. So, I am glad to be able to return the mobile to the owner." Everything will be fine!
► Fri 25 Aug: Nude hike or bike tour near Altenberge [25 August 2017]
Today, from the same starting point, there was a nude hike over 26 km for 9 pedestrians and a 52 km nude bike tour for 12 cyclists. The weather offered for both activities sunny and warm conditions up to 25°C, which again invited some to a bath in a lake.
The cycling group had numerous encounters of different kinds: with people, with horses, and with police officers – the latter had received several calls and spent more than 2 hours of their service to search for the nude cyclists. That prompted them, to ask the cyclists to be informed in advance about similar events in the future – then they could calm down callers right on the phone: “We know, that they are not doing anything bad.”. In addition, we noticed, that the bike path is in some places as narrow as an one-way road – but possible contraflow needs to be taken into account.
We encountered other bikers
We encountered horses
And we encountered
a very narrow
cycle path
More reports
► Participant's report regarding a nude hike on Friday, 25 August [29 August 2017]
"Thanks again for another very pleasant day.
Having hiked now the same trail for the third time, it was nevertheless nice, not least because of the co-hikers.
Nude people apparently do not have high inhibitions, because we were en route quite familiar and friendly with each other.
I also felt the stop after the hike in the restaurant Das kleine Kartoffelhaus very lovely, especially due to the chance to be there in the nude. Many thanks to the landlady and the service staff, such a welcome is certainly not commonplace.*)
– Report: Thomas
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*) Maybe not commonplace, but also not unique: In the same inn in 2016, in the beergarden of the restaurant “Zum Ziegenhainer” in Jena, Germany, in 2016, and others.
► Sat 26 Aug: Nude hike near Venner Moor [26 August 2017]
On Saturday, a nude hike through Venner Moor was on schedule. 24 naturists gathered under a bright and cloudy sky, whereupon the temperature rising to 26°C during the course of the hike.
We hiked across the Woermann farm again – in 2012, the farmer had searched the Internet as to nude hikes and contacted us. Then we went on to the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal and through the Venner Moor to the place for a rest. Many of the hikers approaching us asked us questions as to hiking in the nude, which we willingly answered in detail.
After a rest, we met an excursion carriage with a group of young women, who usually form a roup of regulars, but today made their annual trip. Their laughter and shouts awoke a whole pack of deer in the neighboring forest, which we could still observe on a forest glade. Then, just arriving on the car park to start and finish our nude hike, we met the excursion carriage with the group of young women again, who – probably animated by us nude hikers – agreed on the game "Which team lays the longest chain of clothes?" and therefore undressed – almost completely.
► Sat 26 Aug: Nude performance in inner harbour of Münster [26 August 2017]
On Saturday evening, eleven women and men entered the platform “On Water” by the artist Ayse Erkmens, who had been installed in the old harbor basin during the “Sculpture Projects Münster 2017”. With the the feet pacing on the platform in the water, letters were to be seen on chests and backs of the performance artists, displaying the letters “NATÜRLICH.” [en: “NATURAL.”] and the logo of the city of Münster on one hand and on the other the letters “LEBENSWERT.” [en: “WORTH_LIVING.”] – the motto of the city of Münster.
With a few twists and turns, the words could be read alternately from all sides, and at the end of the performance, the performers were acknowledged with applause from a estimated 3,000 people present.
► Sun 27 Aug: Nude hike near Merfeld [27 August 2017]
Sunday was the last day of the catch-up days, offering as good conditions for nudevents, as the days before. 16 nude hikers, aged between 30 and 80 years, covered a distance of about 15 km in the Merfeld area. As part of the track, you had the choice to wade a brook, while others continued on dry paths. Those, who waded, realized, that there are also ascents in the Münsterland: the brook has three (artificial) waterfalls with a drop height of about 30 cm each on a distance of 1 km.
Also as part of the hike, a side trip to the Dülmen Pony and finally a refreshment in the restaurant Waldfrieden took place. This year's series of naturist weeks drew to a close.