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 kilometers. Five marked, very different routes lead from the Sauerland, the Rhine, the northern Ruhr area or the south of Essen to the Essen Cathedral - or in the opposite direction. The Gelsenkirchen - Essen section crosses the northeast of the Essen diocese. It runs through the Gelsenkirchen-Hassel district, along large industrial plants and on to...

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...

Small round about the local dumps and surroundings. A small highlight is the almost 3km long forest trail along the Rotbach.