Best backpacking trails in Bramsche

4th stage of the popular Hünenweg long-distance hiking trail. This day's stage leads to the Ankumer Heights, which were formed from ice-age sands and gravels pushed by a huge glacier around 200,000 years ago. The impressive history of the formation of this area is easily recognised by the large number of granite boulders that form the basis for the megalithic structures along the way. The route continues into the Bühren Forest, past further impressive burial sites from the Bronze Age. The...

3rd stage of the popular Hünenweg long-distance hiking trail This section of the trail leads out of the town of Bramsche and into the countryside. Before leaving the town, however, you should make a short stop at the 900-year-old St Martin's Church and the Clothmakers' Museum. After leaving the town, the hike leads past a 28 metre high tower, the Bramsche Memorial. This offers a magnificent view of the surrounding area. Finally, the hiking trail reaches a quarry where quartzite is still...

Stage 3 of the long-distance hiking trail "Mühlenweg im Wiehengebirge", Lower Saxony. The Mill Trail in the Wiehen Mountains stretches over a distance of almost 100 kilometres through the Osnabrücker Land region, the Wiehen Mountains and the Teutoburg Forest. The third stage of the Mühlenweg starts in Engter and ends after around 20 kilometres in Venne. Once again, culture-loving hikers will get their money's worth: in addition to the almost obligatory mills, a number of imposing castles...