Best trails near Sommerrodelbahn

The diocese of Essen has had its own pilgrimage route since summer 2018. Now you can make a pilgrimage across the Ruhr diocese on over 200 kilometres of paths. Five marked, very different paths lead from the Sauerland, the Rhine, the northern Ruhr region or the south of Essen to Essen Cathedral - or in the opposite direction. The Gelsenkirchen - Essen section crosses the north-east of the diocese of Essen. It runs through the Gelsenkirchen-Hassel district, past large industrial plants and on...

Here in the triangle between the Emscher, Lippe and Rhine rivers, iron smelting began in the region in 1758, and the last hard coal was mined in 2018. And even after these 260 years, change continues, as demonstrated on this tour by the renaturation of Hahnenbach and Boye, for example, which paint a lot of green and blue between the high slag heaps. There are few more beautiful examples of the beneficial effects of water than the lakes of the Kirchheller Heide. If you like, you can branch...

A short tour of the local slag heaps and surrounding area. A small highlight is the almost 3 km long forest trail along the Rotbach stream.