Melsungen Market Square – Guntershausen Railway Bridge loop from Steinbachtal und Hirschhagener Teiche

Road cycling routes

Germany

Hesse

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Werra-Meißner-Kreis

Hessisch Lichtenau

Melsungen Market Square – Guntershausen Railway Bridge loop from Steinbachtal und Hirschhagener Teiche

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Melsungen Market Square – Guntershausen Railway Bridge loop from Steinbachtal und Hirschhagener Teiche

03:52

78.1km

610m

Road cycling

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

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 17.1 km for 116 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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4.01 km

Günsteröder Heights

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Hiking car park and one of the highest points of the Günsteroder Höhe

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17.2 km

Bartenwetzer Bridge (Melsungen)

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The bridge takes its name from the woodcutters who moved into the city forest. They whipped their axes (whiskers) at the sandstones of the bridge to sharpen them.
This gave …

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17.4 km

With an ice cream you can admire beautifully renovated half-timbered houses. In Brückengasse there is a drinking water fountain in front of a bicycle shop, where you can fill up your drinking bottles.

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29.9 km

Cycle path bridge Hassenfernerstraße

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Once the bridge is released again, you can add another mountain stage on the way from Kassel to Melsungen. Then in Guxhagen, coming from the R1, drive over the Fulda, then immediately left

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36.6 km

Railway bridge over the Fulda near Guntershausen

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Very imposing buildings.

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36.8 km

Guntershausen Railway Bridge

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Great object for photography.

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44.5 km

Fulda Cycle Route

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The Fulda-Radweg is a total of 255 kilometers long and leads from the Fulda source in the Rhön to Hannoversch Münden, where the Fulda merges with the Werra to form …

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44.9 km

Covered Bridge Over the Fulda

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Nice covered bridge on the bike path and hiking trail to Dennhausen. If you are lucky you will see beavers at work here.

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52.1 km

Bugasee

Lake

78.1 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

35.1 km

17.3 km

14.5 km

9.55 km

1.30 km

417 m

Surfaces

67.5 km

3.44 km

2.69 km

2.20 km

1.85 km

437 m

Elevation

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Highest point (500 m)

Lowest point (130 m)

Weather

Tuesday 6 October

22°C

6°C

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Max wind speed: 12.0 km/h

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Comments

June 27, 2026,Frischluftrunde vor der großen Hitze 🥵🔥😨

Before the oven heats up to full power today, a quick little shady loop along the Fulle 😎

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April 3, 2022,Kaufungen-HeLi-Melsungen-KS-Kaufungen

Today...First ride with Casse in northern Hesse💪🏻...thank you very much for the nice tour...it was a great fit, no P...s comparison, nice chatting with interesting topics, just how I like it... gladly again...in this sense...Life is Short-Ride more🙈🥳🤙🏻

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June 19, 2022,Frühschicht 🤩

Getting up at 6 a.m. on Sunday isn't really my thing, but otherwise I wouldn't have had the time today. The temperatures were still quite pleasant and there was nothing going on on the streets. The only one who forced me to brake was a rabbit running diagonally from left to right across the road. Man, man, man, no idea …

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April 3, 2022,Entspannte Sonntagsrunde mit Pio

How nice when you can ride a lap in real life with Komoot colleagues. Was very fun! Thanks! 🤩🍻

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June 21, 2025,Sommeranfang ☀️

Yes, the weather was perfect for today. Nice and warm, but still bearable with the cooling breeze. 😎

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October 3, 2021,Zweimal klettern und dann ausrollen lassen

Today I rode one of my standard tours again.
On the first six kilometers to Helsa you can warm up first and then it goes up to 490 meters to Friedrichsbrück. Then down to Heli through the old town (on Sundays it works quite well, nothing is going on).
Then again up the Himmelsberg to 490 meters and as a …

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March 19, 2024,Rommerode-Melsungen-R1 ☀️

After bronchitis put me completely out of action, I was finally able to get back on the bike today and in the great weather... yes, it's coming to spring! 😍

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May 5, 2024,TREcKer unchained 🤪

After five days with 6.5 kg of luggage on the bike, today's start felt like warp acceleration. All I can say is: energy! 🖖😄

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