Up above Retterath runs a hiking trail around the Hochkelberg. The twelve-kilometre-long path leads by places that are steeped in both history and blood. In the village, there was on Electoral-Trier-held lands a Virneburg high court occupied by 3 Heimburgen - roughly equivalent to mayors - from Retterath, Mannebach and Lirstal and 7 Schöffen (roughly lay jurists), according to a Weistum from 1468 (a Weistum - cognate with English wisdom - was a legal pronouncement issued by men learned in law in the Middle Ages and early modern times). The reconstructed gallows remind one that this County of Virneburg blood court held its executions here in the woods. The condemned were not only hanged from the gallows, but also, according to each one's sentence, broken on the wheel, drawn and quartered or beheaded. A stone's throw from the gallows lies the Grüner Weiher, a pond where once women who had killed their child were drowned. In those days, women were also deemed guilty if they had become pregnant by rape or if they were too poor to raise their child.