Ostermoor Ponds – Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau loop from Rehlingen

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Lüneburg

Rehlingen

Ostermoor Ponds – Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau loop from Rehlingen

Moderate

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115

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Ostermoor Ponds – Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau loop from Rehlingen

02:55

11.4km

50m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

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Naturpark Lüneburger Heide

Oberes Lopautal

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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3.59 km

Toepffer Tower (Töpferturm)

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Nice place for breaks.

To the place from Wikipedia:
Richard Toepffer, industrialist (1840-1919). An Toepffer and the time of cultivating the large heath and moor areas, the ruins of the …

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4.08 km

Rest area at the Ostermoor Ponds

Highlight • Lake

Very nice ponds, a hiking trail leads around it.

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4.32 km

Bench at the Pebble Grotto on the Lopau Stream

Highlight • Viewpoint

There is a great narrow path along the Lopau. Benches invite you to linger.

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4.44 km

Wooden Bridge Over the Lopau

Highlight • Bridge

Wooden bridge over the Lopau 😊

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4.92 km

Lopau Parking Area

Highlight • Parking

Access to the ghost village and the forest lake only when the barrier is open, since the area belongs to the Munster camp training area.

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6.82 km

Old School of Lopau

Highlight • Historical Site

Highlight? Well, maybe because there isn't really anything else outstanding here, otherwise it's rather boring.

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7.42 km

Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau

Highlight • Natural

Various trees were planted here whose biology is described on blackboards.

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8.09 km

Tree Chronology Installation Lopau

Highlight • Monument

Nice information on the edge of the way. Tells the most important events in and around Lopau on the basis of a tree slice.

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8.53 km

Königsteiche

Lake

11.4 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.66 km

3.66 km

964 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

4.86 km

2.98 km

2.05 km

1.13 km

324 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 9 October

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Comments

August 14, 2022,Amelinghausen ohne 👑 Heidekrönchen: Das Lopautal

Landvergnuegen: studied the map, researched, called the Landvergnuegen parking space landlord, packed our car and off we went. The destination was the SOS Children's Village Bockum near Amelinghausen. Expectations: Quiet place, beautiful surroundings, a hike and if possible a shining moon.
It all worked out.🥾
And we were greeted very nicely. Everyone who works there does a great job.
Despite …

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January 8, 2022,Lopautal

Really beautiful and very lonely area in winter. I agonize over what these patterns on the sawn tree trunk are. Looks like frozen maple leaves, but it's the trunk itself. Breaking edge? Coincidence? Art? 🤔 In any case, totally beautiful!

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October 30, 2022,Entlang der Lopau ins Lopautal

When the sun was nice and the sky was blue, I was out and about in the area around Lüneburg. The beginning and end was the SOS Children's Village. Upstream along the Lopau we went the beautiful paths to the Lopautal and its lakes. You can hear woodpeckers busy working the trees and birds chirping through the forest.

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September 1, 2024,Obere Lopau - Adventure Style

This is truly one of the "lost places". The uninhabited village of Lopau, nestled in a quiet paradise. Today we enjoyed a wonderful hike with nice people in late summer temperatures. 😀

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July 28, 2024,🌞🌲Lost Places🚷im⚠️Lopautal🏚😍🐕✖️7️⃣

The Lopautal is great, the nature there is particularly beautiful😍
There are no military exercises on the weekend, so you can go for a walk in this area😃

I was there in 2019, a lot has changed since then, a lot has grown over and run down. We still went to hang out in the old barracks houses again 🏚👀 …

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June 10, 2025,Wanderung um das Geisterdorf Lopau. Lüneburger Heide. 🪦

My landlord recommended it to me. One half of the hike was along the grounds of the Wunstorf military training area. The constant sound of explosions and rifle fire was in the background. It wasn't just in the open-cast lignite mines that people had to leave their homes. No, here too, for the expansion of a shooting range. That was …

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April 18, 2022,Bockum - Lopau, tolle Natur im Lopautal

The Lopautal is always beautiful, on a slightly different tour. However, there are still many fallen trees on some sections, so that you had to climb a bit, but you can get through everywhere.

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