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Wahner Heide heathland – Wahner Heide Nature Reserve loop from Köln/Bonn Flughafen

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North Rhine-Westphalia

Wahner Heide heathland – Wahner Heide Nature Reserve loop from Köln/Bonn Flughafen

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Wahner Heide heathland – Wahner Heide Nature Reserve loop from Köln/Bonn Flughafen

02:40

38.4km

220m

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 15, 2026

Tips

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

You may need to carry your bike.

After 87 m for 20 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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17.8 km

Wahner Heide Heathland

Highlight • Natural

Easily drivable gravel route through a varied landscape.

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23.3 km

The Agger is a tributary of the Sieg. Its source is in Meinerzhagen, and after 69.5 km it flows into the Sieg between Siegburg and Troisdorf. The name Agger is of Celtic origin and means "flowing water"

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31.3 km

View over the Wahner Heide

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The heather is full of gorse bushes and heather, which make the heather shine in splendid colors in spring.

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32.1 km

Cologne Savanna – Wahner Heide

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Super beautiful spot in the Wahner Heide.

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32.2 km

Wahner Heide heathland

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The heath at the Cologne/Porz airport is simply beautiful. I always feel like I'm in the Netherlands.

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32.6 km

Pionierbecken in Wahner Heide

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Always worth a trip: whether you want to watch the donkeys or the goats or watch the planes take off and land at the airport fence - here you get your money's worth!

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32.7 km

Wahner Heide pastureland

Highlight • Natural

Regardless of whether it is a bike tour or a hiking trip, the Wahner Heide is always worth a visit. There are many beautiful views here

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33.1 km

Wahner Heide Nature Reserve

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Around 700 endangered animal and plant species can be found in the Wahner Heide, the second largest nature reserve in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is also a bird sanctuary and flora-fauna habitat area.

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38.4 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

17.2 km

7.89 km

7.46 km

3.86 km

1.77 km

148 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

21.4 km

10.2 km

2.81 km

2.64 km

1.21 km

111 m

Elevation

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Highest point (120 m)

Lowest point (50 m)

Weather

Saturday 18 July

23°C

12°C

18 %

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Max wind speed: 20.0 km/h

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Comments

August 16, 2024,16.08.2024: 41 Komma 9, Köln-Bonn, Tief in der Heide – Wahner Heide Runde von Köln/Bonn Flughafen🚴🚴

Early round from the Lückerathstraße car park into the Königsforst and then on to Gut Leidenhausen, the Cologne suburbs of Grengel, Elsdorf, Wahn and Spich, along the Eisenweg through the Wahner Heide, circling the Cologne-Wahn airfield to the Stephansheide children's village, where we got a little taste of the old Nazi history of the Hoffnungsthal prisoner of war camp, then …

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August 9, 2024,Runde von (Köln-) Wahn, quer durch die Wahner Heide, Tour 13 Radeln für die Seele Köln

The planned starting point is Porz-Wahn train station. If you arrive by car, there are parking spaces along the route, for example hiking parking spaces at the Heumarer Mauspfad in Cologne.

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September 12, 2021,Radtour: Rund um die Wahner Heide

The bike tour starts in Siegburg and goes over the old railway line to Lohmar. There you go into the Wahner Heide and in a wide arc around the Wahner Heide and the Cologne / Bonn airport. In Grengel you have reached the northernmost point and you go through a few places back towards Siegburg. Behind Lind it goes back …

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June 8, 2023,Ausblick über die Wahner Heide – Tief in der Heide Runde von Siegburg/Bonn

Wonderful little round through the Wahner Heide, forest and road but good to drive!

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Wahner Heide heathland – Wahner Heide Nature Reserve loop from Köln/Bonn Flughafen

Wahner Heide Heathland

View of the Agger near Lohmar

View over the Wahner Heide

Cologne Savanna – Wahner Heide

Wahner Heide heathland

Pionierbecken in Wahner Heide

Wahner Heide pastureland

Wahner Heide Nature Reserve

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