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Melioration Tour (green route)

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Melioration Tour (green route)

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4.1

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Melioration Tour (green route)

03:18

53.1km

50m

Cycling

Explore the former Eyterbruch by bike, where the largest irrigation and drainage project for agricultural land in Central Europe was carried out almost 130 years ago - melioration. Discover parts of the former water system and individual dams that are reminiscent of the Melioration project.

by Mittelweser-Touristik GmbH

Last updated: July 24, 2025

Waypoints

Start point

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32.1 km

Erbhof Castle in Thedinghausen

Highlight • Castle

Great mansion that you can also visit. There is also a nice café where you can take a break.

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32.3 km

Herzog Wilhelm Monument

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The monument was inaugurated in October 1900 in honor of Duke Wilhelm of Braunschweig. The Thedinghausen region has a lot to thank him for. He gave his consent for a …

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41.6 km

Church of the Good Shepherd Schwarme

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The Church of the Good Shepherd is a baroque hall church that was built between 1778 and 1784 according to plans by G. H. Brückmann.

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43.2 km

Schwarmer Lock Keeper's House

Highlight • Historical Site

The Schwarmer lock keeper's house (house no. 286, today Dobbendamm) was built in 1906/07 on property owned by Vollmeier Segelke Niebuhr, who was then director of the improvement cooperative, and …

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53.1 km

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Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

25.4 km

17.4 km

6.67 km

2.96 km

582 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

24.7 km

11.6 km

8.42 km

5.88 km

2.36 km

115 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 12 July

29°C

11°C

47 %

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Comments

July 16, 2023,Bruchhausen-Vilsen Thedinghausen Runde

A nice round with a lot of landscape and wind

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May 4, 2022,🚘🚲🚲 🇩🇪-Thedinghausen- Meliorations-Tour 1 (grün)

Lush green meadows and fields, the intense scent of blooming rapeseed fields make the amelioration tour on mostly low-traffic roads and paths a very varied experience through the landscape criss-crossed by canals and rivers.

"Melioration" comes from Latin and means something like soil improvement to increase the agricultural productivity of the soil.
The irrigation and drainage of soil is probably …

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March 31, 2023

Explore the former Eyterbruch by bike, where the largest irrigation and drainage project for agricultural land in Central Europe was carried out almost 130 years ago - melioration. Discover parts of the former water system and individual dams that are reminiscent of the Melioration project.

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Melioration Tour (green route)

Erbhof Castle in Thedinghausen

Herzog Wilhelm Monument

Church of the Good Shepherd Schwarme

Schwarmer Lock Keeper's House

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