Wuppertal circular route

Signposts and signs for the Wuppertal circular route

The Wuppertaler Rundweg is a circular hiking trail that surrounds the entire city of Wuppertal . It has a  Ⓦ  (W in a circle) as a signpost .

route

The length of the hiking trail is 106 kilometers. A total of 2,200 meters in altitude is covered. The road signs are updated at regular intervals by the Wuppertal local association of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV).

The original path was created in 1934/35 shortly after the transfer of the Bergisches Land to the SGV (with regard to hiking trails). Only a few years earlier, the cities of Elberfeld , Barmen and other communities merged to form the city ​​of Wuppertal. The then SGV Gauwegewartewartist Fritz Arnhold developed and marked the circular route with his brother.

Through the municipal territorial reform of 1975, additional areas of the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district were added to the city, so that the route was expanded. Ten of the initially marked access routes from downtown areas to the circular route are still drawn today.

Sights along the way

In addition to very beautiful scenic impressions, the path also touches numerous points and sights of local historical interest

View over the Beyenburger reservoir to the historic center of Beyenburg with the monastery church

• Historic center of Beyenburg with the monastery church Sankt Maria Magdalena
• Beyenburger reservoir
• Herbringhauser dam
• Ronsdorf dam
• Spritzenhaus Heidt
• Old hammers and grinding bowls in the historic Gelpe Valley
• Steffenshammer branch of the German Tool Museum at Clemenshammer .
• Müngsten
• Museum tram route of the Bergische Museumbahn
• The Manuelskotten museum complex (also called Kaltenbacher Kotten) and Kaltenbacher Hammer
• The Nöllenhammer
• The arboretum in the Burgholz State Forest
• The former route of the Burgholzbahn
• The imperial oak
• The valley of the Wupper
• Rutenbeck youth farm
• Buchenhofen municipal sewage treatment plant
• The former marshalling yard in Vohwinkel
• The Simonshöfchen correctional facility in the Osterholz forest
• The beautiful valley of the Düssel
• The manor and the parish church of Schöller
• Lime quarries near Schöller ( Oetelshofen quarry ), Dornap and Hahnenfurth
• Lüntenbeck Castle
• Lime quarries near Saurenhaus and the Wuppertal lime funnel furnace
• The pharmaceutical research center of Bayer HealthCare AG
• The Eckbusch outdoor pool
• The Atadösken
• Donberg
• The Deilbachtal
• Sprockhövel - Herzkamp with the oldest evidence of coal mining in the Ruhr area
• Half-timbered village of Alter Schee
• Tunnel on the former Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen railway line
• Oberbarmer water tower
• Wooded area on the Ehrenberg
• Kemna concentration camp
• The valley of the Wupper
• Lower Herbringhauser dam

literature

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

Web links

• Directions with maps