Bückeburg Old Town and Castle – View of the River Weser loop from Bückeburg

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Bückeburg Old Town and Castle – View of the River Weser loop from Bückeburg

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Bückeburg Old Town and Castle – View of the River Weser loop from Bückeburg

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33.8km

150m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 25, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 21.1 km for 114 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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775 m

Bückeburg Town Hall

Highlight • Historical Site

Very worth seeing town hall. Forms a beautiful backdrop along with other historic buildings. There are of course ice cream parlors, cafes and restaurants in the adjacent streets.

The helicopter museum is in the immediate vicinity.

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829 m

Bückeburg Old Town and Castle

Highlight • Historical Site

Bückeburg Castle is always worth a trip! The mausoleum in the adjacent park is particularly worth seeing.

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13.8 km

View of the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument

Highlight • Viewpoint

My impressions are positive
Because I was often there as a child, I can form an opinion about the Wilhelm, as it is called today. For more than 7 years now I have been riding my bike about 2000 km per year. Many trips have taken me to the Kaiser Wilhelm on the Wiehenberg in Porta Westfalica. It is best at 22-23 degrees and sunshine. After all, it is possible to see Stadthagen from Wilhelm on a clear day. The newly designed forecourt offers benches and plenty of space to recover from the exertion of cycling or from running up.
The modernity of such a monument stands or falls if you include the given environment. There used to be a kiosk with souvenir cards, today there is a beautifully created exhibition. If you like, you can drink a coffee in the café or let yourself be spoiled by other delicious things. The new sun terrace invites you to linger. You can enjoy the panoramic view over the North German Plain.
A visit to Porta should be in for every history lover
I will continue to visit Wilhelm. It is just as much part of the Minden-Lübbecke mill district as the mills and the beautiful half-timbered houses from different centuries. Just stop at the Kaiser Wilhelm in Porta. And see for yourself. Because what began in 1892 in honor of an emperor with Bruno Schmitz was completed in 2018 with the architects Peter Bastian.

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You can find more on my blog

www. Fahrradontour.de/kaiser-wilhelm-porta

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15.3 km

Green Bridge Neesen

Highlight • Bridge

Wonderful along the Weser cycle path, always with a view of the Porta Westfalica.

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18.5 km

View of the River Weser

Highlight • Viewpoint

Just beautiful!

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20.7 km

Minden Waterway Crossing

Highlight • Bridge

They are trough bridges. The water of the Mittelland Canal is in the trough of the bridge and ships can sail unhindered across the Weser. The Weser is connected to the canal with locks. The concrete trough bridge from 1914 was blown up by retreating German troops at the end of World War II. In 1949 the reinforced concrete bridge was put into operation. Since the dimensions of the old bridge became too small for the larger ships, a new steel trough bridge was built between 1993 and 1998 to the north as a supplement to the old trough bridge.

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21.1 km

Minden Waterway Cross

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian state saw the need to create a waterway connection between the Rhine, Weser and Elbe and thus a west-east waterway north of the low mountain range. The Prussian ministerial director and hydraulic engineer Leo Sympher was commissioned to take over the planning for this. As a result, on April 1, 1905, the law on the construction of the Mittelland Canal was passed under the name "Rhein-Weser Canal" from the Dortmund-Ems Canal in the west to Hanover in the east. The construction was completed by 1916 despite considerable difficulties in the First World War. On December 5, 1920 it was decided to continue the canal eastwards to the Elbe. In addition to the economically necessary inland waterway, consideration of job creation in an economically difficult environment also played an increasing role in planning and construction. Leo Sympher left the active service at this point.

The first bridge, which opened in 1915, was supplemented in 1998 by a second bridge with a larger profile in order to enable the new, larger, large motor ships. From this point on, the old bridge will only be used by pleasure boats; Commercial shipping will only take place over the new bridge. The city of Minden entered the old canal bridge in 1987 in its list of monuments as a memorial to the cityscape.
Source: Wikipedia

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22.4 km

Mittelland Canal

Highlight • River

From the Ems to the Elbe without any gradients: on the Mittelland Canal, cyclists ride in the countryside and car-free across Lower Saxony - past ports, locks and barges.

Cycling across Germany and hardly pedaling up an incline? No problem if you orientate yourself on the Mittelland Canal. At a good 320 kilometers, it is the longest artificial waterway in Germany.

ndr.de/ratgeber/reise/radtouren/Mit-dem-Fahrrad-am-Mittellandkanal-entlang,mittellandkanal256.html

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33.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

11.7 km

8.37 km

7.19 km

6.26 km

316 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

24.2 km

4.47 km

2.46 km

1.86 km

795 m

126 m

Elevation

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Weather

Monday 9 November

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Comments

May 4, 2025,Wasserstraßen Kreuz Minden – Schloss Bückeburg Runde von Hotel Groteburg

A very beautiful tour along the Mittelland Canal and the Weser River. A real highlight is the water junction in Minden. It's truly impressive how the Mittelland Canal bridges the Weser. Bückeburg, with its castle, castle park, and town center, is also very beautiful.

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