Zitadellenpark Vechta – Museum in the Arsenal loop from Vechta

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Zitadellenpark Vechta – Museum in the Arsenal loop from Vechta

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Zitadellenpark Vechta – Museum in the Arsenal loop from Vechta

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5.40km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 20, 2026

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Start point

Bus stop

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1.35 km

Hochzeitsweg Vechta

Highlight • Trail

The Wedding Trail is a 5.2 km long, signposted (circular) hiking trail in Vechta. It leads mainly through green areas (Citadel Park, Wedding Forest). You can start directly at the train station, for example. There is also the tourist information office, where you can get a free brochure that contains not only the Wedding Trail, but also 30 other hiking trails in the Vechta district.
(As of autumn 2024)

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1.36 km

Zitadellenpark Vechta

Highlight • Historical Site

The knights meet here once a year – in the citadel park, Vechta's green lung and resort, just a few steps away from the hustle and bustle of the district town's shopping street. Because during the Burgmannentage, a medieval spectacle, exciting knight fights and a medieval market take place here every year on the last weekend in September. But the Citadel Park in Vechta is also definitely worth a visit on any other day of the year.
Source: nordkreis-vechta.de/zitadellenpark/25414

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1.76 km

Wooden Castle Tower of Castrum Vechtense

Highlight • Castle

In the Castrum Vechtense project, a castle complex is to be built successively on the redesigned citadel park - modeled after the former Vechta Castle.
It is a medieval three-island castle complex of 11/12. Century arise on a roughly 2-acre section of the citadel park model - with main, front and side castle and many buildings. The basis for the reconstruction are archaeological and historical research
in northern Germany.
To visit today are the castle tower (fee) and the garden
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrum_Vechtense

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1.94 km

Peters Beach Bar

Highlight • Cafe

2.33 km

Kaponier, Vechta

Highlight • Historical Site

The Caponier is Vechta's landmark.

You'll find it a little off the busy shopping street behind the market square.

Along with the armory, it's the only remaining fortification building of the former citadel. In this very special building, with its long and dark history, you can now experience art from the region up close.

The massive, pentagonal caponier was actually built in 1705 as an outer fortification and prison for the citadel, directly above the Moorbach stream. Its walls are only about 30 centimeters thick on the west side – and this had strategic reasons, especially during the wars of the time. In the event of an enemy occupation, the people of Vechta could have destroyed the building themselves with a few well-aimed cannon shots from the citadel.

Primarily because of its special atmosphere, the Caponier is now a popular exhibition space for art of all kinds. The Kaponier Art Association regularly allows artists to show their works within these quaint walls.

Exhibitors include renowned artists from Germany and abroad.

nordkreis-vechta.de/kaponier/25418

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2.46 km

Vechta Historic Centre

Highlight • Historical Site

Horse City

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2.82 km

Sprengepiel Statue, Vechta

Highlight • Monument

Sprengepielplatz runs northwest of Große Straße from Gildestraße to Kolpingstraße. A few steps from the beginning of the square, at the junction of Gildestraße and Kronenstraße, a bronze statue by the sculptor Bernard Kleinhaus was erected in 1981. It depicts a large dog with bared teeth and a broken chain.
The background to the statue is the Vechta legend surrounding Colonel Sprengepiel, who is said to have made a pact with the devil so that his soldiers could transform into shrubs and bushes. After the victorious colonel died, the devil demanded his share of the pact, whereupon Sprengepiel was cursed to a life as a wild dog.
This dog is said to haunt the streets and the moor to this day. Another version of the story refers to the historically documented Imperial Captain Sprengepiel, who was stationed in Vechta with a cavalry unit around 1640 and, for a time, also owned the Falkenrott estate. This cavalry unit committed looting and earned a reputation as a good fighting unit. The sudden appearance and disappearance of the cavalry unit during their raids was explained by a pact with the devil. Based on this, another legend stated that the cursed dog was banished to their monastery by the Franciscan monks and released during the dissolution of the monastery under French occupation around 1810. Since then, the dog is said to have haunted Vechta. Many legends have been created by the people of Vechta around these historical facts and stories, mixing truth and fantasy.

vechta.de/strassennamen/sprengepielplatz

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3.79 km

Museum in the Arsenal

Highlight • Historical Site

The "Museum in the Armory" is located in the citadel. The old armoury tells stories from the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, the Thirty Years' War and the recent past as a prison until 1991 on three barrier-free floors. Numerous exhibits to touch and participate in make the visit a unique experience.

museum-vechta.de

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5.40 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.96 km

1.15 km

884 m

411 m

Surfaces