Riverside Beach on the Rhine loop from Meerbusch
Riverside Beach on the Rhine loop from Meerbusch
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Riverside Beach on the Rhine loop from Meerbusch
01:57
7.66km
20m
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Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: April 23, 2026
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232 m
Poplars along the Rhine riverside path
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397 m
View of the Rhine Tower on the horizon.
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425 m
View of the Flughafenbrücke over the Rhine
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1.71 km
Path along the Ilverich Old Rhine meander
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3.01 km
Riverside Beach on the Rhine
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4.43 km
Singletrack Trail Along the Rhine
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On weekends and public holidays, however, many walkers - understandably - also use these great paths on the Rhine.
As enthusiastic trekking and mountain bikers, we therefore ask: please show consideration for walkers and hikers. There are also many families with children here.
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5.93 km
Mouth of the Mühlenbach
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6.38 km
Airport Bridge (A44) over the Rhine
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A cable-stayed bridge with a span of 287.5 m would have required pylons around 110 m high, but these were not permitted as an obstacle to air traffic due to the proximity to the Düsseldorf airport that gave the bridge its name. It therefore has two particularly low (34 meters) longitudinally positioned V-shaped supports in the middle between the two lanes, which are connected to each other at the tips by crossbars and look like triangles standing on their tips. This creates a cable arrangement that is somewhat close to the usual one.
The bridge has six lanes, two hard shoulders and combined footpaths and cycle paths on both sides. The latter can be reached via entrances on both banks of the Rhine.
The bridge was completed in 2002 after four years of construction as part of the closing of the gap in the A 44 motorway between Meerbusch (Ilverich) on the left bank of the Rhine and the north of Düsseldorf (Lohausen) on the right bank of the Rhine. The bridge provides a connection to the motorways to Mönchengladbach, Aachen, Belgium and the Netherlands. Among other things, it improved the connection of the airport, the trade fair and the former Rheinstadion and its successor to the areas on the left bank of the Rhine. It also contributed and continues to contribute to relieving the pressure on two bridges upstream (Theodor Heuss Bridge and Rheinknie Bridge) and one bridge downstream (Krefeld-Uerdinger Bridge between Krefeld-Uerdingen and Duisburg-Mündelheim).
The Langst-Kaiserswerth Rhine ferry, located about 3 km downstream, lost importance due to the airport bridge; since 2002 it has been used almost exclusively by day trippers.
The construction of the airport bridge was controversial for years because of the route through the Ilvericher Altrheinschlinge.
The name "Niederrheinbrücke" (Lower Rhine Bridge), which was requested by the majority of the population as part of a competition, was not approved by the Federal Ministry of Transport, which was responsible for naming the bridge. So the bridge was named after the nearby Düsseldorf airport.
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7.66 km
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Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
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4.36 km
3.29 km
Surfaces
6.67 km
755 m
103 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
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