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Märkischer Kreis

Menden (Sauerland)

Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Märkischer Kreis

Menden (Sauerland)

Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden

Moderate

4.8

(49)

149

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Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden

02:38

9.39km

210m

Hiking

At the intersection of Lennebergland, Arnsberger Wald and Hochsauerland lies Menden, a town with 55,000 inhabitants in Sauerland. The natural history hiking trail is marked with the code letter Z and starts in the center of Menden above the mighty parish church of St. Vincenz.

The Catholic parish church of…

by Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein (SGV)

Last updated: June 29, 2026

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After 2.81 km for 122 m

After 4.09 km for 216 m

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4.55 km

Viewpoint Over Mendener Valley

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Beautiful resting place with a wide view over the Menden valley to Waldemei.

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5.19 km

View of Sauerland Countryside

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A bench and a great panoramic view.

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5.96 km

View of Sauerland Countryside

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Nowhere are you closer to the sky than here: wonderful Sauerland.

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9.39 km

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Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.78 km

2.85 km

1.46 km

1.02 km

272 m

Surfaces

4.90 km

1.71 km

1.28 km

1.18 km

313 m

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Thursday 6 August

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January 6, 2025,Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden

A terrible path!
Whoever planned it, it was really bad!
The original starting point is in the middle of a crossroads, with no parking space or anything like that. I started from a parking space nearby. There is a large hiking parking lot along the way where you could have started, and you would also have saved yourself about 150 …

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October 8, 2023,Sauersteig-Romberg Runde-Menden (GC) 🍂🍁

The Sauersteig Romberg circuit in Menden

Romberg, that's what Menden's local mountain was called, the Rodenberg probably in the 13th century, when the noble Romberg family still had their seat here. The hike goes around the Rodenberg to Oesbern, goes past an old castle ruin, past the Hexenteich and ends with the St. Antonius Chapel and the procession path, where …

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November 20, 2022,Z - Menden: "Geballte" Geschichte - Mendener Altstadt und Konglomerat

In this case you can follow the "Z" and I recommend it too. If you follow the official Gpx file to which the Mendener Stadtmarketing links, you don't always go along the marked route and miss e.g. B. the castle ruins.

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November 1, 2021,Z - Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden ☀️🌳🍂

The path actually starts in downtown Menden, we started it in Oesbern and parked at the church.
Halfway through the hike, you reach Menden and have a wonderful stop here. If you leave the city center "on the left" you save about two kilometers.
The path is very well signposted with the "Z" sign. For the last kilometer we left …

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March 31, 2023

At the intersection of Lennebergland, Arnsberger Wald and Hochsauerland lies Menden, a town with 55,000 inhabitants in Sauerland. The natural history hiking trail is marked with the code letter Z and starts in the center of Menden above the mighty parish church of St. Vincenz.
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The Catholic parish church

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Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden

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Naturhistorischer Wanderweg Menden

Viewpoint Over Mendener Valley

View of Sauerland Countryside

View of Sauerland Countryside

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