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View from Glessener Höhe – Along the restored Erft loop from Lövenich

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

View from Glessener Höhe – Along the restored Erft loop from Lövenich

Hard

5.0

(1)

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View from Glessener Höhe – Along the restored Erft loop from Lövenich

03:57

62.5km

440m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 30.8 km for 36 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.19 km

Fronhof Freimersdorf

Highlight • Historical Site

List of monuments Pulheim I / 056

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7.49 km

Königsdorfer Forst

Nature Reserve

8.83 km

Heidenburg ramp on the Via Belgica

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If you want to climb Monte Glessano, you have to go up there

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11.5 km

View from Glessener Höhe

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Between 1955 and 1970, the Glessener Höhe was heaped up as an external landfill from the masses of the opencast mines north of the forest. On its recultivated slope edge, …

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17.0 km

Abtsbusch

Forest

18.9 km

View over the fields in Naturpark Rheinland

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Far-sightedness in the distance 👀

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24.1 km

Wiedenfelder Heights

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is a recultivated high tip from the overburden of the overburden above the lignite. It stretches between Niederaussem and Paffendorf, between the former Fortuna-Garsdorf and Bergheim opencast mines.

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26.8 km

Before you lies the open expanse of the Peringmaar. The wind creates small ripples in the water, clouds are reflected on its surface, and trees and meadows line its shores. A trip here is worthwhile at any time of year.

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32.5 km

Erft River

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Cycling along the Erft is simply beautiful

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32.6 km

Along the restored Erft

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Not suitable for racing bikes, for all other bikes a nice quiet route off the roads.

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62.5 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

49.1 km

4.90 km

4.54 km

3.04 km

813 m

127 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

25.8 km

17.0 km

11.6 km

7.56 km

527 m

119 m

Elevation

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Highest point (200 m)

Lowest point (-20 m)

Weather

Sunday 16 August

21°C

16°C

58 %

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Max wind speed: 15.0 km/h

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View from Glessener Höhe – Along the restored Erft loop from Lövenich

Fronhof Freimersdorf

Heidenburg ramp on the Via Belgica

View from Glessener Höhe

View over the fields in Naturpark Rheinland

Wiedenfelder Heights

View of the Peringsmaar

Erft River

Along the restored Erft

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