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Westfälische Salzroute
05:21
89.8km
310m
Cycling
The almost 90-kilometer-long Westphalian Salt Route, with its many salt-themed highlights, is your perfect touring bike tip in the north of the Sauerland. Salt production and the salt trade have left a large number of cultural and industrial historical testimonies in the Hellweg region. The three spas Bad Sassendorf, Bad Waldliesborn and Bad Westernkotten provide an extra portion of relaxation. With its few inclines, the Westphalian Salt Route is also an easy route that primarily leads along paved side roads or cycle paths.
The starting point is the Unna-Königsborn train station. Only a few meters away you have already reached the beautiful spa park, where you can admire the wind pump of the former salt works. Passing the old town you cycle eastwards on a bike path. It goes through wide fields and small towns, where numerous restaurants invite you to stop. A colorful spa park with an impressive graduation house is also waiting for you in Werl.
After you have breathed in the salty air, you continue through the colorful cultural landscape, which is peppered with churches, courtyards and half-timbered houses. You can reach Bad Sassendorf via Soest - make sure to visit the Westphalian Salt Worlds there. In a gentle up and down you cycle via Bad Westernkotten and Geseke to Salzkotten, the destination of the Westphalian Salt Route. Here, too, you can visit a spa park with a graduation house before you start your journey home by train.
Last updated: September 1, 2024
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 40.1 km for 105 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
753 m
Windpump Tower Friedrichsborn (Königsborn)
Highlight • Monument
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19.6 km
Werl Graduation Tower in Kurpark
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45.4 km
Westphalian salt mines
Highlight • Monument
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89.0 km
Salzkotten Graduation Tower
Highlight • Monument
The plant is fed with the brine of the nearby spring »Neuer Sprudel«. The brine is pumped into a large gutter on the graduation tower, which in turn feeds the gutters on the long sides above the thorn hedge.
From the notches and taps of these grooves, the brine trickles into the thorns. The falling drops are crushed (aerosols) so that they can be used for therapeutic inhalation inhalation. Grading means gradually increasing the brine content of the water by draining it several times.

Source "New Sprudel"
The former graduation mill, planned and built by Rev. Philipp Korte, had a length of almost 600 meters and was shut down with the advent of rock salt in 1908. The entire complex was demolished in 1920/21.
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89.8 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
29.2 km
27.3 km
18.7 km
12.0 km
2.35 km
124 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
68.0 km
9.94 km
7.41 km
2.04 km
1.93 km
395 m
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The tour begins in Kamen because of the better rail connection. From there it is only a few kilometers to Königsborn.
The park there is, not surprisingly, all about salt. A windmill is evidence of salt production.
As the tour continues, you will repeatedly come across graduation towers …
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Well-made route, which also goes through the towns.
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May 12, 2023
The almost 90-kilometer-long Westphalian Salt Route, with its many salt-themed highlights, is your perfect touring bike tip in the north of the Sauerland. Salt production and the salt trade have left a large number of cultural and industrial historical testimonies in the Hellweg region. The three spas
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