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BE 2 - On the trail of our ancestors
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- Tip
- 18.89 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: medium
- Condition: easy
- Mountain bike

- 1:14 h
- 18.89 km
- 63 m
- 59 m
- 48 m
- 94 m
- 46 m
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- Start: You can join this circular route at any time.
- Destination: You can leave this circular route at any time.

Have you ever seen dinosaur footprints?

The start of the circular route is at the Tourist Information on Lindenstraße. In **Bad Essen-Hüsede** you can take a detour to the **Backhaus**, where baking takes place in a stone oven on special dates. Through the idyllic **Glanetal** you then come to the 150 million-year-old **dinosaur footprints** in Bad Essen-Barkhausen. Two life-size concrete dinosaurs await you near the impressive steep wall. In the second part of the route you pass by **Burg Wittlage**, the former administrative seat.

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Tour information

- Barrier-Free
- Loop Road
- Stop at an Inn

Author

Natur- und Geopark TERRA.vita

Organization

Osnabrücker Land

License (master data)

Tourismusgesellschaft Osnabrücker Land mbH

Map

Cycling map Bad Essen, Bohmte, Ostercappeln, available at the Tourist Information Bad Essen and the municipalities of Bohmte and Ostercappeln

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Contact

49152 Bad Essen

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