Main Cycle Tour 14 - Stage Wiedensahl/Rehburg - Nienburg

Rural cycle paths via Loccum, Münchehagen and the Steinhuder Meer
back to the Weser cycle path near Landsbergen, then along the Weser to Nienburg; easy, well developed and signposted

Difficulty level: easy
Trail quality: ★★★★
Signposting: ★★★★

From Wiedensahl to Loccum, the tour follows the "Große Weserlandroute" to Loccum with its monastery, which was founded in 1163 and is now a Protestant monastery. The former Cistercian monastery is one of the best-preserved monastery complexes in Germany.
Bad Rehburg is home to the historic spa facilities (km 6). A fairytale trail with wooden sculptures depicting the Grimm fairytales has been created here(Brothers Grimm Fairytale Trail ).

The rest of the cycle route follows a loop to Münchehagen. A visit to the local dinosaur park is highly recommended. In this open-air museum, you can also marvel at original footprints of dinosaurs that were found here in the former quarry. There are also more than 130 impressive life-size replicas of the prehistoric animals in the extensive park.

Just a short distance away, you come across the Steinhuder Meer through the Meerbruchwiesen nature reserve. There is also a Meerbrucherlebnispfad nature trail and an observation tower from which you can watch the birds in the marshes.
Outside the nature reserve, Rehburg is home to the remains of an early medieval fortification, the Düsselburg, of which the earth ramparts can still be seen. Zigzagging side roads bring you back to the Weser at Landesbergen. The well-known Weser cycle path, which is already well used, takes cyclists effortlessly to Nienburg/Weser, a small town with a pretty old town, which can be explored along a three-kilometre circular route with over 500 painted bear paws to the sights. Half-timbered and Weser Renaissance buildings characterize the townscape. Nienburg offers an interesting museum landscape with the Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum, the Nienburg Police Museum and the Regional Museum

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Services and facilities on site

Rehburg-Loccum
Cycle tours and themed tours in Rehburg-Loccum: Dinosaur tour (approx. 30 km cycle tour on the theme of dinosaurs),
Bicycle boxes and bicycle air pump in the Rehburg district, tube machine in the Loccum district
E-bike charging stations: Rodes Hotel, Ev. Heimvolkshochschule Loccum, Gasthaus Deutsche Eiche, Parkhotel Bad Rehburg, Romantik Bad Rehburg, town hall of Rehburg-Loccum, Café & Rösterei Koboldt
Local public transport: The bicycle bus connects the capital Hanover with the Steinhuder Meer and Rehburg-Loccum via local public transport and travels to the districts of Münchehagen and Bad Rehburg. Regiobus line 835: The bicycle bus runs with a bicycle trailer from Neustadt a. Rbg. and Wunstorf and circles the Steinhuder Meer in both directions. All day-trippers who want to explore at least part of the lake on two wheels can use the additional service from the beginning of April to the end of October at weekends and on public holidays every hour between 10.00 am and 7.00 pm. From 01.06. to 31.08. the bike bus also runs daily.
Passengers can get on or off the bus by bike at almost all stops. This gives tourists and day-trippers the opportunity to use the cycle bus in bad weather or if they only want to cycle part of the way around the sea, for example. The trailer has space for 16 bicycles. A ramp makes it easy to push the bikes up and down.
A one-way ticket for one zone (€3.10) is all you need for a single journey with or without a bike - the bike travels for free. Registration is not required.
By the way: Unfortunately, we cannot take tandems, recumbent bikes, pedelecs or similar. Two-wheelers with moped license plates (e-bikes or other motorized vehicles) are also excluded from transport.