Shore paths in the Ruhr area - cycle path on the Rhine-Herne Canal

The Rhine-Herne Canal is a central waterway with important importance as a transport route for goods that are shipped from the Rhine into the central Ruhr area or even further east. It begins in Duisburg at the most important inland port in the world and ends at the canal junction in Datteln, where it connects to the Dortmund-Ems Canal meets.

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Cycle almost 50 kilometers along the canal

Large parts of the Rhine-Herne Canal are accompanied by a cycle path, which is not explicitly signposted and therefore does not have a clear route. If you want to cycle the entire canal in one go, you can embark on a bike tour of just over 50 kilometers. The nature of the path is very different. In some sections you have to reckon with bad ground, especially after heavy rainfall, as the path mostly runs on a water-bound surface.

From Duisburg via Oberhausen to Bottrop

The canal bank path leads you from the lock at the Duisburg harbor first to Oberhausen. As tourist attractions are the gasometerwhich Centro, the LUDWIGGALERIE and the striking bridge Slinky Springs to Fame right on the canal. At the House Ripshorst past the path then leads you to Bottrop, where you make a detour through the Bern Park exorbitant

Past the stockpile, zoo and ship lift

In the north of Essen, the route meets the canal again and leads along the Schurenbachhalde over through the North Star Park to Gelsenkirchen. From the ZOOM world of experience the cycle path keeps changing the side of the canal. You cycle over the impressive Grimberger Sichel. At the Herner Meer, the canal suddenly becomes like a small lake, unexpectedly wide. In Henrichenburg, the route leaves the canal again before it continues on the last few kilometers to the Ship lift Henrichenburg walk along the east bank of the canal again. Sections of the Rhine-Herne Canal are also part of the RevierRouten "steel kitchen","mine ride" and the "tasting piece".