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North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhein-Kreis Neuss

Rommerskirchen

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended – Strategic railway embankment loop from Rommerskirchen

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhein-Kreis Neuss

Rommerskirchen

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended – Strategic railway embankment loop from Rommerskirchen

Hard

4.5

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243

riders

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended – Strategic railway embankment loop from Rommerskirchen

03:13

62.2km

150m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 17, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 930 m for 7 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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934 m

Viewpoint

3.74 km

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended

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Can be driven on in any weather.

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9.96 km

Strategic railway embankment

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Very good to drive

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15.2 km

1765 and later. 2nd storey, 4-winged, washed brick building with hipped roof, segmental arched windows with Klobensteinen, colossal pilaster order, profiled storey cornice, gabled central part, stone tablet with volutes …

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19.1 km

Erft Canoe Slalom Course

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If you are lucky, you will see canoeists doing their sport here.

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19.5 km

Erft near Neuss

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Shortly before the mouth of the Erft in the Rhine, the watercourse is being renatured as part of the perspective concept for the Erft conversion. The backwaters, some of which …

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40.1 km

Cycle Path Along the Norfer Bach

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A great way in the middle of nature.

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46.8 km

Knechtsteden forest nature reserve

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The Knechtstedener Wald is a forest area west of Dormagen, which includes the parts Mühlenbusch, Knechtstedener Busch and Chorbusch. It is a flora-fauna-habitat area and headwaters of the Pletschbach. Species …

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52.2 km

Chorbusch Forest Trail

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The approximately 6 km long route through the Chorbusch is alternately asphalted or forest floor

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53.3 km

Chorbusch

Nature Reserve

62.2 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

42.0 km

9.86 km

5.96 km

2.55 km

1.65 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

25.1 km

22.2 km

10.3 km

2.14 km

2.09 km

479 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 17 July

24°C

17°C

21 %

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Max wind speed: 20.0 km/h

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Comments

March 10, 2025,Grvl Strat.Bahndamm - Erft - Norfbach & etwas Düsseldorf

The great weather inspired me to go on another tour. Through the Chorbusch and along the Bruchrandwelle to the strategic railway embankment, which I had to myself today. Further along the Erft to the mouth at Grimlinghausen and over to Düsseldorf. With a direct turn back to the Rhine at the Fleher Bridge. 15 minutes of sunbathing and back along …

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May 23, 2026,Norf-Bach, Erftmündung, Strategischer Bahndamm

The route was adapted to the temperatures today, as there was a lot of shade. Through the bushes Chorbusch and Knechtsteden, we went along the Norf-Bach to Grimlinghausen to the Erft estuary. Always nicely shady along the Erft, the path continued to the strategic railway embankment and then home, today without the obligatory ice cream in Stommeln.

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Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended – Strategic railway embankment loop from Rommerskirchen

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended

Strategic railway embankment

Eppinghoven Mill

Erft Canoe Slalom Course

Erft near Neuss

Cycle Path Along the Norfer Bach

Knechtsteden forest nature reserve

Chorbusch Forest Trail

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