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Wahner Heath – Hiking trail in Wahner Heide loop from Wahner Heide

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Wahner Heath – Hiking trail in Wahner Heide loop from Wahner Heide

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Wahner Heath – Hiking trail in Wahner Heide loop from Wahner Heide

03:05

12.0km

50m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 23, 2026

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Wahner Heide

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2.39 km

Grazing enclosures at Wahner Heide

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Actually, you can save yourself a visit to the zoo, here you can see a number of animal species that are naturally kept.

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2.43 km

Wahner Heath

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On the Rösrather way along the ghost bush. A heathland with pines, willows and broom. Goats graze behind the fence to keep the vegetation short.

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2.87 km

View of grazing herds at Wahner Heide

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Very nice view, short drinking break and further ...

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3.18 km

Grazing animals in the Wahner Heide

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We did not see cows and donkeys, but sheep and goats. 🐑🐑🐐🐐

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3.20 km

Geisterbusch Heath (Wahner Heide)

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A very beautiful heathland where you can watch sheep and goats and sometimes feed them.

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4.08 km

View from the Busenberg in the Wahner Heide

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There is a lot to see as far as the eye can see

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4.39 km

Hiking trail in Wahner Heide

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Beautiful path through the nature reserve

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7.39 km

Wahner Heide

Nature Reserve

8.28 km

Tünnes-und-Schäl Sign in Wahner Heide

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Along the Cologne Trail through the Wahner Heide (the second largest nature reserve in North Rhine-Westphalia), there are several of these Tünnes and Schäl signs (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCnnes_und_Sch%C3%A4l), which mean that the Wahner Heide should not be misused as a garbage dump.

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12.0 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.25 km

1.05 km

939 m

669 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

6.17 km

3.76 km

1.03 km

956 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 14 August

34°C

18°C

44 %

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Comments

November 8, 2025,Wahner Heide im Herbst

A short autumn hike through the heath, which had already finished blooming, but perhaps the last rays of sunshine, the last blue sky, who knows... The landscape is varied, with surprisingly beautiful places at every turn. Occasionally, and just as surprisingly, airplanes fly overhead; the nearby Cologne/Bonn Airport is located here.

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May 8, 2026,Wahner Heide - Ginster-Runde ab Gut Leidenhausen über Geisterbusch und Busenberg

and we were not disappointed.

Start and end was Gut Leidenhausen, easily accessible by public transport. Initially, as always, we walked for a while through the fresh spring forest, which is beautiful to look at at the moment, but that wasn't our focus at all. When impatience began to set in, we reached the open areas, where a little broom …

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Wahner Heath – Hiking trail in Wahner Heide loop from Wahner Heide

Grazing enclosures at Wahner Heide

Wahner Heath

View of grazing herds at Wahner Heide

Grazing animals in the Wahner Heide

Geisterbusch Heath (Wahner Heide)

View from the Busenberg in the Wahner Heide

Hiking trail in Wahner Heide

Tünnes-und-Schäl Sign in Wahner Heide

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