Railway track cycling in the Ruhr area
Cycling along the railway line in the Ruhr area, ie cycling where goods trains used to go to the big factories and products weighing tons rolled out into the wide world. Former railway lines are now cycle paths in the radrevier.ruhr, on which you can cycle from industrial monument to industrial monument without any significant inclines and far away from road traffic.
Experience structural change by bike
Whether HOAG-Trasse, Erzbahntrasse, Rheinischer Esel or one of the other former railway lines: Every Bahntrassenradweg in the Ruhr area provides insights into the history of the region. The developed cycle paths lead directly past impressive industrial monuments and offer the finest cycling pleasure. In this way, the structural change in the Ruhr area can be easily experienced by everyone in an impressive way.
Bahnrassenradwege in the Ruhr area
avenue cycle path
The Bahntrassenradweg of the former Westphalian Railway runs over 17,6 kilometers in the east of the radrevier.ruhr from Unna-Königsborn to just before Welver in the neighboring district of Soest.
Avenue cycle path in the district of Wesel
The avenue cycle path in the district of Wesel leads within the Ruhr Metropolis over 7,7 kilometers by bike from Xanten north to the district of Kleve.
Banana Bike Path
The banana cycle path runs 3,6 kilometers from the center of Dortmund southwards into the Emscher Valley and is therefore an important cycle connection from the center to Lake Phoenix.
Boxtel Railway
The Bahntrassenradweg of the Boxteler Bahn runs within the radrevier.ruhr from Wesel via Xanten in the direction of the Dutch border.
Former cable car route of the Minister Achenbach colliery
A rather unusual railway cycle path leads in Lünen over 3,3 kilometers from the Minister Achenbach I / II heap through the Brambauer district to the Datteln-Hamm Canal.
Elbsche Valley Railway
The Bahntrassenradweg of the Elbschetalbahn leads south from the Ruhr valley near Wetter-Wengern to the Ennepe-Ruhr district. The upgraded line currently ends after around 6,2 kilometers.
ore railway route
As one of the most well-known railway routes in the Ruhr area, the Erzbahntrasse takes you around ten kilometers from Bochum to Gelsenkirchen.
Grugaweg
The Grugaweg in Essen starts at junction 1 on the Rheinische Bahn and runs for almost 9 kilometers via Essen-Rüttenscheid to junction 51 on the Ruhr.
Glückauf route
The Glückauf-Trasse, also known to many as the coal railway, leads you almost constantly slightly uphill to the south for around 14 kilometers from Hattingen.
Gneisenaustrasse
The Bahnstrassenradweg Gneisenaustrasse runs over 5,8 kilometers from the Datteln-Hamm Canal near Lünen to the site of the colliery Gneisenau in Dortmund.
green path
The Green Path is a popular 8-kilometer cycle route between the north of Oberhausen and Duisburg.
Hamburg-Venlo train
This former railway line was part of the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn, a national historic railway connection in north-west Germany.
HOAG route
The approximately 12-kilometre-long HOAG route runs between Oberhausen and Duisburg, a former railway line belonging to Hüttenwerke Oberhausen Aktien Gesellschaft.
Hugo Bahn
Today, the former Hugo Railway takes you almost 5 kilometers as a railway cycle path from the Rhine-Herne Canal to the Hugo colliery in the north of Gelsenkirchen.
Jacobibahn
The Jacobibahn is the perfect connection to get to the Halde Haniel in Bottrop by bike at almost 7 kilometers from Centro Oberhausen.
Kleinbahn line Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld
Probably the most unusual railway cycle path in the Ruhr area, the Kleinbahntrasse Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld, runs in the very south from Hagen-Haspe to Breckerfeld.
Klöcknerbahn
The railway line of the former Klöcknerbahn runs for around 13 kilometers in the district of Unna. From the Koenigsborn colliery in Bönen you first cycle west.
King Ludwig route
The König-Ludwig-Trasse runs from the Rhine-Herne Canal in Castrop-Rauxel through Recklinghausen and ends after almost 9 kilometers in the fields around Becklem.
Kray-Wanner Railway
The approximately 6-kilometer-long route of the former Kray-Wanner-Bahn is one of the central west-east connections for cyclists in the Ruhr area.
Lorraine route
The Lothringentrasse connects the site of the former Lothringen colliery with Bochum city center over a distance of almost 5,5 kilometres.
North Star Walk
In the heart of the radrevier.ruhr, the Nordsternweg runs for around 5 kilometers from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein in Essen to the Nordstern colliery in Gelsenkirchen.
Lottental horse-drawn tram route
A rather unusual Bahntrassenradweg lies in the south of Bochum. On the former horse-drawn tram through the Lottental, you can travel 3,5 kilometers from Bochum down to the Ruhrtal.
Rhenish railway
The Rheinische Bahn runs between Essen and Duisburg as one of the most well-known railway lines right through the western Ruhr area.
Rhenish donkey
The railway line with the special name Rheinischer Esel takes you by bike for 12 kilometers in a wide loop through the south of Dortmund and Witten.
Springorum route
The Springorumtrasse is the ideal connection for cycling in Bochum on 9,7 kilometers of the best asphalt from the city center to the Ruhr Valley.
Veltenbahn
The Veltenban is a rather less well-known railway cycle path that runs for around 2,4 kilometers in the south-east of Essen from Freisenbruch down into the Ruhr Valley near Steele.
Wolfsbahn route
The Wolfsbahn route in Duisburg Radelnde runs for almost 4 kilometers through the district of Marxloh. A sculpture path along the way presents some works of art by local artists.
Customs union route
The Zollvereinweg in Essen is a popular railway connection between the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein and the Kray-Wanner-Bahn.
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