Nelkenweg - reizvoller Rundweg um Blomberg

8:00 h
41.87 km
608 m
609 m
124 m
420 m
296 m
Start: Circular route, various parking spaces on Nelkenweg
Destination: Circular route, various parking spaces on Nelkenweg

The 42-kilometre-long Nelkenweg trail offers hikers and walkers the opportunity to explore the wonderful landscape around Blomberg. The level of difficulty and length can be chosen according to preference.

Six varied access routes lead in different directions to the Nelkenweg and offer the opportunity to combine sections of the Nelkenweg into circular hiking tours of varying lengths (12 km -16 km).
The Nelkenweg crosses the extensive forests of the Hurn near Istrup in the north of Blomberg and the Blomberg town forest in the east with elevations such as the 429 m high Winterberg. The magnificent old beech and oak forests offer hikers coolness and relaxation on hot summer days.

Benches along all hiking routes invite you to rest and hikers' huts provide shelter in the event of a rain shower.

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Directions

To the south and west, the Nelkenweg leads hikers through farmland and pastures. Flowering field margins, small copses and the unobstructed view over the lovely landscape make the hikes here a special experience, when the yellow-flowering rapeseed in spring and golden yellow fields of grain in summer form a pretty contrast to the green of the meadows and copses on whose fertile clay soils grain, rapeseed, turnips and potatoes are still grown today.
Along some of the paths, old churches and magnificent farmsteads bear witness to the prosperity of the inhabitants of the Blomberg basin. The Romanesque village church in Reelkirchen with its 1000-year-old lime tree in the churchyard or the moated castle in Herrentrup are particularly worth a detour.

The numerous hiking parking lots or the parking lots near the old town are available as starting points for the various tours.
On a visit to the old town of Blomberg, founded around 1250, you can discover not only many pretty half-timbered houses on the historic town tour, but also the old castle with the town wall and the last medieval town gate in Lippe.

Blomberg, the town of carnations, is the town of flowers and was once known for its carnation cultivation; today the carnation trail is a reminder of this glorious past.

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