Wurmtal 10 km
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.35 mi
- Elevation gain
- 627 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 627 ft
- Max elevation
- 612 ft
- TrailRank
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65
4.7
- Min elevation
- 373 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 24 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1132
- Uploaded
- June 28, 2017
- Recorded
- May 2017
near Hühnernest, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Deutschland)
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Itinerary description
You start out at Burg Wilhelmstein where you can park if you visit the castle. From the Burg you descend into the valley, cross the road between Bardenberg and Kohlscheid and continue along a small asphalt road past a duck pond and meadows. The road ends at a house and you continue on a path through the forest until you get to a bridge across the Wurm. After crossing it, you climb through the forest towards Kohlscheid, but before entering the village you turn left along the valley. You go back down to the river and follow it through the forest. After climbing twice you descend towards the Bardenberg-Kohlscheid road and enter a path along the meadows on the valley floor. After a while you have some views of the Burg Wilhelmstein. You cross a road and continue through meadows and along forests towards the Kohlscheid- Würselen road. If you want to drink something at Teutenhof you walk along the road for 150 m and return to the Wurm bridge where you take a path around the Kalksteinhalde (‘limestone heap’), a heap of limestone rocks created by a former Solvay plant, now a nature reserve. You then climb another heap, but this one black, the Halde Gouley, remains of former coal mines, now also a nature reserve. You can also find big white stone eggs dispersed in the landscape. A bit later you descend to the valley floor to the Alte Mühle, and then slowly climb through the forest back to Burg Wilhelmstein.
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Between Alte Mühle und Pumpermühle
Between these two mills you pass through meadows and along forests.
Bridge
Castle
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Halde Gouley
Halde (heap) Gouley is a heap of coal mine detritus, now a nature reserve. Big stone eggs have been deposited in the landscape by a landscape architect.
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Kalkklippenblick
Here you can have a look at the limestone heap created by a former Solvay plant, now a nature reserve.
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Path along meadows opposite Wilhelmstein
This path takes you along meadows with occasional views of Wilhelmstein opposite the valley.
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Teuterhof
There is a Bayern style restaurant and Brauhaus here with Lederhosen and Dirndl (http://wu.teuterhof.de/). Also, there is a riding school here.
River
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Wurm
There is a dead-end path here taking you close to the river. I saw a mandarin duck here.
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mooie route met redelijke schaduw ,dit is zeker met het warme weer een aanrader .
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mooie route met redelijke schaduw ,dit is zeker met het warme weer een aanrader .
Bedankt voor de positieve review, en aanbeveling, Rudie!
Route is niet meer volledig te lopen. Stuk afgesloten ivm naturschutz en de oversteek van de Wurm is niet meer.
Dag Wesly, bedankt voor jouw opmerkingen. Ik zie inderdaad ook op openstreetmap.org dat de brug niet meer bestaat🤔. Er is ook een post op outdooractive: https://www.outdooractive.com/en/condition/eifel/sperrung-der-wurmbruecke-hinter-der-klaeranlage-steinbusch/804565687/. Er zou vlakbij (50.85028, 6.08972) nog wel een doorwaadbare plaats zijn op een ruiterpad, maar ik vermoed niet zo geschikt voor wandelaars om door te waden... Dichtstbijzijnde brug is dan de Oststrasse wat 3,8 km van de route haalt, of vlak bij Herzogenrath, wat een kleine 3 km toevoegt aan de route... Mogelijk dat de brug nog wel hersteld wordt...