Ruhr-Sieg cycle path
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| overall length | 113 km |
| Starting point | Meschede |
| Target point | Churches |
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| Height difference | 187 m to 437 m above sea level |
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| Website URL | ruhr-sieg-radweg.de |
The Ruhr-Sieg cycle path is a 113 kilometer long cycle path from Meschede in the Sauerland to Kirchen an der Sieg . The cycle path runs along the Bigge lake and 40 percent over former railway lines that were converted into cycle paths after the closure. The official opening took place on June 25, 2014, whereby the cycle paths were already there but were not marketed as a continuous cycle route. The cycle path is part of the state-wide cycle network of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Route
The Ruhr-Sieg cycle path starts at the train station in Meschede and runs together with the Ruhrtal cycle path to Wennemen . The route to Finnentrop is identical to that of the SauerlandRadring . The cycle path between Wennemen and Finnentrop runs along the Finnentrop – Wennemen railway line . The railway cycle path leads over mountains and Wenholthausen to Eslohe along the Wenne . From Eslohe the cycle path continues via Kückelheim and Fretter to Finnentrop, whereby the 689 meter long Kückelheim tunnel, which is closed in winter , is passed between Kückelheim and Fehrenbracht . From Finnentrop the cycle path winds along the Bigge up to the Biggesee. The cycle path follows the lake to the Bigge inlet in Olpe. At the former Wildenburg railway station, the cycle path then meets the route of the Finnentrop – Freudenberg railway line , on whose route it runs in sections to Freudenberg. From Freudenberg, the cycle path uses the former route of the Asdorftalbahn to Kirchen.
Expansion measures
Lenhauser tunnel
In the Lenhausen area, the plan is to lead the cycle path through the Lenhauser tunnel of the former Wennemen - Finnentrop railway line in order to be able to bypass Lenhausen on a shorter route and not to lead cyclists through road traffic. For this purpose, a driveway with a viewing platform was built between the Lenne and the Ruhr-Sieg route in 2014 . To complete the section, a bridge has to be built over the Ruhr-Sieg route and the B 236 and the tunnel has to be upgraded for bicycle traffic. However, the city of Finnentrop has leased the Lenhauser tunnel to a shooting club for 25 years until 2027, which uses the tunnel as a shooting range and has rebuilt it accordingly. The shooting club is not ready to prematurely terminate the lease if the city of Finnentrop does not provide an equivalent replacement. The dispute between the two parties went to the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, where the shooting club got right in the matter. The community of Finnentrop then offered the Frettertal hunting and sport shooting club a piece of land in the Frielentrop industrial area on which the club can build a shooting range at its own expense. The association refused this because it was not financially able to support the construction of the property. Finnentrop's mayor Dietmar Hess then threatened the association with a plan approval procedure in order to obtain building rights for the tunnel and to get it out of the tunnel by means of a briefing.
Relocation between Rothenmühle - Wildenburg train station
The existing railway cycle path between Kirchen and Wildenburg train station is to be extended to Biggestraße in Rothemühle via the route of the former Biggetalbahn . To do this, two bridges have to be renovated, a new bridge built and the route asphalted.
Web links
- Ruhr Sieg cycle path opened. In: Youtube. WDR Lokalzeit Südwestfalen, June 25, 2014, accessed on July 14, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lokalplus.de, Barbara Sander-Greatz, Unification in the Lenhauser Tunnelstreit ?, April 12, 2019
- ↑ No agreement: the shooting range still in the Lenhauser Tunnel, Westfalenpost, Flemming Krause, July 5, 2019
- ↑ Westfalenpost, Attractive cycling over the old railway line, author: Roland Vossel, January 3, 2017