Pilgrim route (D7)

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D-route D7 pilgrim route
overall length	approx. 1,059 km
location	Schleswig-Holstein Hamburg Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia
Starting point	Harrislee 54 ° 50 ′ 21.8 "  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 15.7"  E
Target point	Aachen 50 ° 46 ′ 32.7 ″  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 56.1 ″  E
Flooring	partly asphalted, partly water-bound surface
Height difference	Ascent: 4772 m, descent: 4542 m
difficulty	easy - medium
Traffic volume	low
Website URL	radnetz-deutschland.de

The D-Route D7 (pilgrim route) runs for around 1,065 kilometers as a long-distance cycle route from Harrislee to Aachen . It is the German section of the EuroVelo route EV3 .

Routing

Schleswig-Holstein

The D7 runs from Harrislee via Flensburg , Schleswig , Rendsburg , Hohenwestedt and Itzehoe to Elmshorn and on to Hamburg .

In Schleswig-Holstein the route largely corresponds to the Ochsenweg , from Wedel to Hamburg the Elbe Cycle Route .

Hamburg and Lower Saxony

In Lower Saxony, the route leads over the Hamburg – Bremen long-distance cycle route and the bridge cycle route . The route leads from Hamburg-Harburg via Ehestorf , Zeven , Bremen , Lohne and Osnabrück to Holzhausen .

North Rhine-Westphalia

From Lienen via Münster , Haltern , Dorsten , Wesel , Rheinberg , Duisburg , Düsseldorf , Cologne , Bonn , Rheinbach , Euskirchen to Aachen .

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the D7 leads over the Friedensroute to Münster, over the 100-Schlösser-Route and the Römerroute from Münster to the Rhine, over the Rhine Cycle Path (D8) to Mehlem and on the moated castle route to Aachen.

Signage

The route is partly signposted with the D7 logo, partly only the signs for local bike paths are available.

expansion

The route runs on existing cycle paths, of which around 38 km are on busy roads and around 90 km on unpaved roads.

Web links

• The D-Route 7 / pilgrim route in the portal Radnetz Deutschland
• Pilgrim route (D-Route7) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the tour portal of the ADFC
• Cycle path pilgrim route in the BicycleRoutes & Tours portal (with map, GPS download, altitude profile, sights and accommodations)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Pilgrim route (D-Route7) [ID 23944] ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on adfc-tourenportal.de. Retrieved August 21, 2017.