X-ray path

The Röntgenweg is a circular hiking trail that surrounds the entire city of Remscheid . It has an R in a circle as a signpost .

route

The length of the hiking trail is almost 60 km. The circular route was named after the discoverer of X-rays , Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen . He comes from Remscheid-Lennep.

The X-ray run with the distances half marathon , marathon and ultramarathon (63.3 km) takes place on the route every year .

The official starting point is at the German Röntgen Museum in Remscheid- Lennep , from which a 2.5 km long branch path leads to the actual circular hiking trail near Kleebach. In a clockwise direction, the path touches the Wuppertalsperre , the Goldenbergshammer , Bergisch Born , the Eschbachtalsperre , follows the Eschbach to Burg Castle , crosses the Müngstener Brücke under the Wupper , turns into the Morsbach valley , follows the Gelpebach and Saalbach through the historic Gelpe valley to the Ronsdorfer dam , touches Lüttringhausen and leads through the Garschager Heide near the Herbringhauser dam around Hackenberg back to Kleebach.

Attractions

• X-ray museum
• Wuppertalsperre
• Goldenberg's Hammer
• Eschbach dam
• Mebus mill
• Hammer mills and grinding heads in the Eschbachtal
• View of Schloss Burg
• Müngstener Bridge
• Morsbach
• Steffenshammer in the historic Gelpe Valley
• Kempkenholz burial forest
• Lüttringhauser water tower
• Garschager Heide

literature

• Jörg Mortsiefer : Bergische Rundwege: Wuppertaler Rundweg, Remscheider Röntgenweg, Solinger Klingenpfad , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7700-1425-5

Web links

• Directions with maps
• The official website of the X-ray run