Dreyschloot Bridge – Jümme-Pünte Ferry loop from Detern

Dreyschloot Bridge – Jümme-Pünte Ferry loop from Detern

Moderate

riders

Dreyschloot Bridge – Jümme-Pünte Ferry loop from Detern

02:09

48.3km

60m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The route includes a crossing by ferry. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 27, 2026

This route includes a ferry crossing

Tips

Temporary access restrictions

Includes segments with temporary access restrictions. Check ahead to confirm restricted segments are open to the public.

After 34.5 km for 161 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

Get Directions

6.69 km

Dreyschloot Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

The Dreyschloot connects the rivers Jümme and Leda in the south of East Friesland, which as “two streams” represent one of the most beautiful regions in East Friesland.
Because of the Barkter Straße / Deichstraße, which leads from Detern to Barßel, the Dreyschloot has exactly this lifting bridge.
If you drive the northern path along the Leda to get to Barßel, you will experience the meaning of the lift bridge and can - crossing the connecting channel - then cycle a short way to Barßel. Otherwise you have to drive a large curve along Dreyschloot and Jümme in order to be able to cross them at Detern. From there you can reach Barßel via the Nordloher Tief and Tange. There the Jümme, which from then on is called “Soeste”, continues through Frisoythe and the Tülsfeld dam. Your source is at Emstek.
Shortly after the Dreyschloot Bridge, the Elisabeth Fehn Canal goes off. The Leda, which in turn is called "Sagter Ems" in Saterland, then continues through Ramsloh and Scharrel before - like Soeste - it crosses the coastal canal and rises in the Emsland as an "Ohe" near Spahnharrenstätte.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

9.58 km

Johanniter Chapel, Bokelesch

Highlight • Religious Site

Very unhappily advertised on the street by absolutely inadequate advertising boards, there is a real treasure of East Frisian monastery and church history here. In the information building next to the chapel, not only interesting facts are served, but also coffee, tea and cake.

Next to the entrance to the chapel is a hagioscope. I had never heard of this myself. A hagioscope is a cross-shaped opening in the wall that allows hermits or those excluded from the service due to illness to still be able to see the altar and take part in the service.

Quote “In the 12th century, also in the course of great epidemics, there was a need to provide spiritual care for larger numbers of lepers who had to live apart from the church. The Third Lateran Council of 1179 allowed these sick people to form their own communities with their own priests, their own churches and their own cemeteries, but this was not always possible in rural areas. Hagioscopes are therefore mostly found in areas that were sparsely populated in the Middle Ages, and rarely in the churches of larger medieval towns, where lepers were often accommodated in leprosoria (leprosy houses) that had their own chapels.”

Translated by Google •

Tip by

18.7 km

Polder Holter Hammrich Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural

Die Bietzestraße führt uns in der Westachse entlang des Vogelschutzgebietes „Polder Holter Hammrich“ und „Polder Leyßer Hammrich“, wo wir über weit ausgedehnte Wasserflächen eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Vögel bei der Brut, der Rast oder auch beim Poker, oder was die Vögel sonst so machen, beobachten können. Feldstecher hoher Qualität, Teleobjektive und Einbeinstative erhöhen hier den Erlebniswert immens. Verschiedene Schautafeln klären über das Areal, Flora und Fauna auf.
Das Vogelschutzgebiet "Polder Holter Hammrich" inklusive des "Polder Leyßer Hammrich", wie der offizielle Begriff heißt, ist mit seinen gewaltigen 240 Hektar großem wiedervernässten Areal nördlich an der Leda angrenzend, eine Traumlandschaft für Radelnde und Wanderfreudige, wie man sie nur selten findet.
Dabei ist das von 3 Seiten anzusteuernde Refugium für über 60 Vogelarten mit einem Rundweg von 7 Kilometern inklusive Aussichtsturm ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel in der Region.
Auf moorigem Untergrund wurde der Umbau des Entlastungspolders begonnen und 2011 fertiggestellt. Der eigentliche Zweck des Schutzes vor Hochwasser fand ganz nebenbei, auf natürlichem Wege sozusagen seine für uns so interessante und für die Lebensräume der Vögel so notwendige zweite Bedeutung: Dem Vogelschutz.
Man kommt von Leer kommend an Amdorf vorbei hierher, Von Detern oder Rhauderfehn über Holte und Holterfehn und dritterseits von Collinghorst über Backemoor und Schatteburg auf angenehmen Radwegen, oder zur Not auch per PKW hierher.
Es lohnt sich für die Tour etwas Zeit, ein Fernglas und falls eine Kamera mitgeführt wird, auch ein Einbeinstativ mitzubringen. So werden neben dem Genuss der bezaubernden Natur auch tolle Tierbeobachtungen möglich. Es lohnt sich auch, die Informationen auf den diversen Schautafeln aufzusaugen. In jedem Fall aber verlasst bitte nicht die vorgegebenen Wege zugunsten der Ruhe der Vögel beim Brüten und was sie sonst so treiben. So wird Euer Besuch am Holter und Leyßer Hammrich ein einzigartiges Naturerlebnis, von dem alle was haben.

Tip by

34.5 km

Jümme-Pünte Ferry

Highlight • Bridge

The Jümme-Pünte is next to the port in Barßel, the Stickhausen bathing lake and the Stickhausen Castle THE highlight along the Jümme. Every weekend from spring to autumn, the Pünten club's Pünten guides pull thousands of guests along with bicycles and cars across the Jümme for a symbolic price. It's great fun for all guests.
Translating now costs € 2 p.p. :-)
The ferry operates in spring and summer and does not operate at low tide. It is therefore worthwhile to find out about the tide times on the Internet before setting off.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

34.8 km

Jümme Riverside Cycle Route

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

I love this route. Highly recommended even for slower cyclists. Fantastic views of the Jümme river without any annoying car traffic.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

46.1 km

Paddle and Pedal Station Stickhausen

Highlight • Rest Area

From May to September there is coffee, cake, snacks, canoes, bicycles, a campsite and a barbecue area directly on the Jümme (e-mail paddel-pedal.stickhausen@web.de).

Translated by Google •

Tip by