Dattelner Runde - discovery tour between Lippe, Haard and Kanal
As the name suggests, the Dattelner Runde takes you 42 kilometers by bike around Datteln. You cycle to the sights and natural beauty of a diverse cultural landscape between the Lippe, Haard and Canal. It's very relaxed for you on farm roads between fields and green forests and on accompanying ones canal banks via the largest canal junction in the world. In the forest sections of the Dattelner Runde, it is partly on unpaved forest paths, and the altitude difference in the Haard requires a good level of fitness.
Nature and altitude in the Haard
The tour starts at the Katenkreuz hiking car park. From there you orientate yourself to the right and dive into the beautiful Haard. Now you have to master a few meters of altitude on unpaved forest paths. You have completed the "mountain stage", you drive on dirt roads, cross the settlement in the corner and finally arrive in the village of Horneburg. Here you can pay a visit to the old Horneburg Castle and its small chapel. The old half-timbered houses on the main street are also worth a short break.
Canalside Biking
Through the rural areas around Meckinghoven we continue to the lock park Henrichenburg. A small highlight awaits you there: You drive directly through the old trough of the historic lock. It is worth visiting here LWL-Industriemuseum Henrichenburg ship lift. You continue on level paths through meadows and fields to the Dortmund-Ems Canal. From there you follow the canal bank paths and orientate yourself to the right. along the Datteln-Hamm Canal you will reach the Waltrop district of Holthausen and cross the Datteln-Hamm Canal. It continues through the sewage fields until you meet the Dortmund-Ems Canal again, which you cross under through a tunnel. At the “Alte Reise” hiking park, turn left onto the ramp. Once you have made the short ascent, a great view of the largest canal cross in Europe, the Dattelner Meer, awaits you. Now you follow the canal bank paths of the third canal of this tour, the Wesel-Datteln canal.
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Lippe meadows and pure nature
If you then continue to follow the canal bank paths, you will leave the towpaths a few kilometers later to explore the Lippeauen. A few highlights await you here, for example the storks or oxen and the Vogelsang house. Since you are in the nature reserve, please follow the rules and stay on the signposted paths. The tour continues to the beautiful district of Ahsen and then crosses the Wesel-Datteln Canal. On the last section of the route, you dive back into the Haard - as at the beginning of the tour. You cycle on the farm roads through a green forest until you finally turn left and head for the Jammertal. Along the golf course you will come to the entrance to the Jammertal Resort. Then keep to the right to drive a short distance along Redder Straße. Now you are back at the starting point of the tour, the Katenkreuz hiking car park.
Note on the discovery tours in the radrevier.ruhr
This tour is one of the discovery tours im radrevier.ruhr. This means that it also leads along cycle paths that are not part of the region's figureheads. However, accepting compromises in the quality of the cycle path also means being able to “experience” “undiscovered” tours off the popular and often heavily frequented cycle paths. Is a good path condition important to you? Then you should rather come to our 15 RevierRoutes drop by!
