View of Quelle – Olderdissen Local Zoo loop from SchücoArena
View of Quelle – Olderdissen Local Zoo loop from SchücoArena
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View of Quelle – Olderdissen Local Zoo loop from SchücoArena
02:24
8.24km
220m
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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: May 17, 2026
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1.83 km
View of Bielefeld and Steinhagen
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2.30 km
Jostberg
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3.02 km
View of the Bielefeld TV Tower
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The television tower itself is not beautiful. For Bielefeld it is a piece of home, as you can see it as you exit the motorway in front of the Sparrenburg. And when it slowly appears behind the treetops while lying in the fog, it gives me a homely feeling 😉
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3.16 km
Hünenburg TV Tower
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3.35 km
View of Quelle
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6.22 km
Ruins of the Jostberg Monastery Church
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In a document of the year 1483 Bishop Simon III. From Paderborn, two years earlier, believers on the Loyckhus mountains had begun to worship the sacred hermit Jodokus, the patron saint of pilgrims, in a house (domunculam). As a pilgrimage was made, the bishop allowed the construction of a chapel dedicated to Jodokus and St. Mary. By 1496 at the latest, the Bielefeld Franciscan Johannes Schrage and his brother Wessel asked Duke William of Jülich and Berg, Count of Ravensberg, to appoint Franciscans to supervise the local Jodokus cult with the help of a monastic settlement. After a rejection by the Order it came only in 1498 after the intervention of Pope Alexander VI. to found an observant monastery with takeover of the existing chapel.
In 1501, the Franciscans from Rome received permission to rebuild the monastery elsewhere on the mountain. The new building was consecrated in 1502. However, the brothers complained about the wind in the winter and lack of water in the summer, as well as the remoteness that would severely hamper the pastoral care and begging. On June 10, 1507, Pope Julius II authorized the relocation of the monastery to the city of Bielefeld, where the Franciscans had been given land on Obernstrasse. The new monastery church of St. Jodokus and Francis was consecrated in 1511.
The late Gothic monastery church is preserved in foundations at a height of up to one meter. The choir is 9.1 meters wide and 14 meters long. The church was single nave with three yokes and had a 5/8 choir closure and a total length of 24.4 meters inside measure.
The ruins of the monastery church was unearthed in 1912 at the instigation of the city of Bielefeld and 1966 by the Roman Catholic parish of St. Jodokus. Since then, the building disintegrated; Souvenir hunters had repeatedly broken pieces. Only in 1993/94 was an archaeological excavation and documentation. The restoration and partial restoration of the church ruins was completed in 2009.
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7.51 km
Shelter at Olderdissen Zoo entrance
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7.93 km
Olderdissen Local Zoo
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8.04 km
European Bison Enclosure, Olderdissen Animal Park
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As you can read on the information board there, European wisent were almost extinct. The approximately 3,500 individuals that now exist are descended from 12 animals that were used in an attempt to save the species in 1923.
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8.24 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
5.88 km
1.26 km
625 m
371 m
103 m
Surfaces
2.77 km
2.43 km
1.62 km
814 m
521 m
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< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (290 m)
Lowest point (160 m)
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Saturday 6 June
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12°C
34 %
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