Moor route

Moor route
overall length	45 km
location	Lower Saxony
Height difference	flat
difficulty	light
Website URL	ammerland-touristik.de

The Moor Route is a 42-kilometer circular cycle path that opens up the south-eastern part of the Ammerland . The so-called Oldenburg-Ammerländer Geestrücken was bounded by extensive marginal moors until the beginning of the 19th century. Only in a few places, the so-called dams , were these areas passable. During the moor colonization , this moor was made arable for agricultural use. Today one can only guess the hardship of the people who once settled here. Visitors to the Moor and Fehn Museum in Elisabethfehn get impressions of this meager life , which is not on this route. A typical feature of the landscape is the expanse of the former moorland.

The best way to start the route is in Ekern (more precisely: at the "Landhaus Ekern", which can be easily reached from Bad Zwischenahn (train station) on the Reiherweg , the cycle path on the former small railway line). Moved counter-clockwise, the route touches the following stations (or certain sights are easy to reach):

• Bad Zwischenahn
  • Ekerner mill
  • Burgfelde
  • Querensteder mill
  • Dänikhorster Moor
  • back to the southeast
• Edewecht
  • Protestant St. Nikolai Church
  • Local history museum Tollhus up'n Wurnbarg an der Aue in Wittenberge - a former customs house
  • Coker windmill replica - the original is in the museum village of Cloppenburg
  • Heinje Bergfried
  • via the Reiherweg to the south
  • Süddorf nature reserve
  • on the old railway bridge over the coastal canal to Edewechterdamm , then east
  • Jeddeloh II
  • Detour to the Museum Alte Ziegelei Westerholt possible (5 km)
  • back across the canal and sheep dam to the northeast
  • Little Scharrel
  • Friedrichsfehn , from there to the northwest
  • Kleefeld
• Bad Zwischenahn
  • typical moor colony Petersfehn II
  • Hochmoorkolk nature reserve
  • Speckener Moor

See also

• List of cycle routes in Lower Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ammerland Tourist Information [Hrsg.]: Ammerland Park Landscape. The cycling landscape. An adventure guide for cyclists. Westerstede o. JS 12.
2. ↑ Moor route. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 31, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.