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Schwerte

Forest trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide – Aplerbecker Forest Path loop from North Rhine-Westphalia

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Kreis Unna

Schwerte

Forest trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide – Aplerbecker Forest Path loop from North Rhine-Westphalia

Easy

4.6

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301

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Forest trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide – Aplerbecker Forest Path loop from North Rhine-Westphalia

01:59

7.26km

110m

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: June 28, 2026

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Aplerbecker Wald

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376 m

Forest trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide

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Leafy dirt trail through a mostly tall beech tree forest running parallel to Waldstrasse in Schwerter Heide, excellent connection to Freischütz pedestrian bridge across the Hörder Str without car or traffic contact

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850 m

Gehrenbach Trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide

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The trail follows the Gehrenbach which originates from the Schwerter Wald on the eastern side of the Freischütz, passes through a pretty forest pond and exits the forest at Schwerter Heide.

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1.14 km

Mutter-Möller Trail in the Schwerter Heath

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On the Mutter-Möller-Weg in Schwerte you will experience the panorama of wooded nature. The path meanders between the Schwerter Heide and the Dortmunder Sommerberg, mainly through beech forests in the …

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1.71 km

View of Hüsingheide Fields

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A very good opportunity to sit on the break bench and enjoy the view over the field and the paddock 👍

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2.10 km

Schwerte Railway Tunnel Ventilation Shaft

Highlight • Structure

This "tower" is the venting chimney of the underlying swords railway tunnel.

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3.25 km

Bench by the forest trail

Highlight • Rest Area

5.95 km

Aplerbecker Forest Path

Highlight • Forest

Beautiful path in Aplerbecker Weg

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7.21 km

Freischütz Schwerte Restaurant & Event Venue

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This elegant eatery serves fine German cuisine and offers both a winter and a beer garden.

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7.26 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.97 km

2.19 km

447 m

378 m

256 m

Surfaces

3.78 km

3.02 km

314 m

119 m

Elevation

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Highest point (210 m)

Lowest point (140 m)

Weather

Tuesday 30 June

26°C

14°C

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Comments

May 16, 2026,Im 🟢🟩💚🐸🌳🤢🍏 Bereich

As so often: low expectations, great tour. This little gem had been saved as planned since time immemorial, I had discarded it again and again because it seemed a bit boring to me 🙈
Today I felt like going into the forest, light rain ☔ was forecast, OK, then this is something and I've ticked another one off the list. …

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October 29, 2022,5 Mädels im Aplerbecker und Schwerter Wald 🌳🌳🌳

My holiday girls are guests and so they can get to know a little bit of my homeland. I hiked the tour through the Aplerbecker and the Schwerter Forest 🌳 last year. That was exactly the right tour for the girls today. 😀 We now enjoy coffee, chocolate and Baileys on my balcony. 🤭☕️🍫🥃

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October 5, 2025,Mit der Wandergruppe durch die Wälder von Do-Aplerbeck u. Schwerte

We started in Dortmund Aplerbeck-Mark. From there, we immediately entered the Aplerbeck Forest Nature Reserve. There, we encountered both wide paths and narrow trails. Unfortunately, we couldn't manage without ☔️ today, but we still only had mud under our hiking boots in a few places.

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September 12, 2021,Kletterwald Freischütz🌳 - Waldsee Runde von Schwerte

Cozy round with Ulrike and Edith to put my heel to the test. It is always beautiful in the Schwerter Wald around the Freischütz - especially with such wonderful late summer weather ☀️. We had a lot to talk about and at the end of the day, delicious apple pie waved in the Freischütz beer garden. An all-round successful hiking …

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October 3, 2025,Do-Aplerbecker- u. Schwerter Wald - Spaten-Garten am Freischütz

For our next hike with the hiking group, we went for a test walk through the wooded areas of Dortmund and Schwerte today. We really enjoyed the walk because we were constantly walking through a forest. 🌳🌳🌳 But it wasn't boring.

We didn't meet many people, and it was also remarkably quiet at the "Spaten-Garten" area near Freischütz. 🥨

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Forest trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide – Aplerbecker Forest Path loop from North Rhine-Westphalia

Forest trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide

Gehrenbach Trail 🌳 Schwerter Heide

Mutter-Möller Trail in the Schwerter Heath

View of Hüsingheide Fields

Schwerte Railway Tunnel Ventilation Shaft

Bench by the forest trail

Aplerbecker Forest Path

Freischütz Schwerte Restaurant & Event Venue

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