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Rhine-Herne Canal - Start of the KLT – König Ludwig Trail loop from Dortmund-Wischlingen

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Rhine-Herne Canal - Start of the KLT – König Ludwig Trail loop from Dortmund-Wischlingen

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Rhine-Herne Canal - Start of the KLT – König Ludwig Trail loop from Dortmund-Wischlingen

03:06

50.2km

250m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 8, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 51 m for 16 m

After 20.1 km for 7 m

After 50.2 km for 16 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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21.8 km

Pöppinghauser Wald nature reserve

Highlight • Natural

The view from the directly adjacent canal path offers a great view of a wetland with fascinating development of nature and is a spectacle that is not particularly often encountered here in the Ruhr area.

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22.3 km

Pöppinghauser Wald Nature Reserve

Highlight • Forest

From the higher riverside path of the Rhein-Herne-Kanal you have a wonderful view of the extensive Bergsenkungs- and nature reserve Pöppinghäuser forest. On extensive water surfaces, numerous species of birds can be observed.

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22.7 km

Rhine-Herne Canal - Start of the KLT

Highlight • River

Every canal in Europe is easy to navigate. In Germany, they are under the control of the shipping authorities. There are so-called "commercial routes of the authority" along the canals everywhere.

The König Ludwig route is nearby. The route that has been completed so far starts in the south at the "Herner Meer", the port and lock area on the Rhine-Herne Canal in Castrop-Rauxel. It goes from the Rhine-Herne Canal (in Herne) on a former railway line to Recklinghausen Suderwich to the König Ludwig mine. The railway line is to be extended to Oer-Erkenschwick.

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23.3 km

König Ludwig Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

The König-Ludwig-Trasse is a beautiful railway cycle path in Recklinghausen. There are always relics from the coal mining era along the way.

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24.7 km

König-Ludwig Route

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

The new route connects in the south to the already completed section to the old harbor König-Ludwig am Rhein Herne Kanal.
The KLT Bahntrasse was extended by the new section from the Ortlohstraße in Recklinghausen to the Becklemer Busch (Horneburger Straße in Castrop-Rauxel.
The new section is completely asphalted and is about 7,0 km long.
In the final stage, the former mine railway line from the Rhine-Herne Canal to the Halde General Blumenthal in Oer-Erkenschwick lead and there connect to the Haard.
I drove on to the ship lift Henrichenburg.

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31.2 km

Strünkede Castle and Emschertal Museum

Highlight • Castle

Places like these remind us that there was a history in the Ruhr area before coal and steel, one that has very different associations than the 100 years or so of industrial use and development, which is now largely history itself.

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35.5 km

Mont-Cenis Academy

Highlight • Monument

The coal mine Mont Cenis was a hard coal mine in Herne-Sodingen. A modern energy park and the new building of the further education academy of North Rhine-Westphalia were built on one of their two facilities.

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43.0 km

Zeche Zollern Industrial Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

The Zeche Zollern is a decommissioned hard coal mine in the northwest of the city of Dortmund, in the Bövinghausen district.

The Zeche Zollern II / IV is now one of eight museum locations of the decentralized LWL industrial museum, which is also located here. The colliery is an anchor point on the Route of Industrial Culture in the Ruhr Area and the European Route of Industrial Culture.

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50.2 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

29.0 km

9.49 km

5.78 km

4.97 km

783 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

30.8 km

9.09 km

4.83 km

3.93 km

1.11 km

373 m

Elevation

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Highest point (130 m)

Lowest point (50 m)

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Thursday 9 July

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Rhine-Herne Canal - Start of the KLT – König Ludwig Trail loop from Dortmund-Wischlingen

Pöppinghauser Wald nature reserve

Pöppinghauser Wald Nature Reserve

Rhine-Herne Canal - Start of the KLT

König Ludwig Trail

König-Ludwig Route

Strünkede Castle and Emschertal Museum

Mont-Cenis Academy

Zeche Zollern Industrial Museum

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