- 3:00 h
- 30.93 km
- 284 m
- 239 m
- 351 m
- 514 m
- 163 m
- Start: Schmallenberg, Wood and Tourism Center - You can start at any point on the route.
- Destination: Oberkirchen (Schwarzen Fabrik)
This circular experience cycling route shows at many different stations how renewable energies are used in Schmallenberg and its districts. Whether it is the hydropower plant at the Besteckfabrik in Fleckenberg or the photovoltaic systems and the biogas plant in the bioenergy village Ebbinghof. These stations are found in almost all visited villages.
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Directions
From the Wood and Tourism Center in Schmallenberg, the route on the SauerlandRadring initially leads you to the "Firewood" station in the Breite Wiese industrial area and to the Besteckfabrik Museum in Fleckenberg. On the Philosophenweg, you cycle back to the Schmallenberg town center along a former railway line and via Weststraße to the "District Heating Network Kirchplatz" station at St. Alexander's parish church. Continuing back along Weststraße with its neoclassical buildings, the route on the SauerlandRadring continues towards Bad Fredeburg. On the way there, two more stations await: the Energy-Plus House and the substation. The route passes Bad Fredeburg on the former railway line, and you leave the SauerlandRadring to the left towards Ebbinghof. After visiting the two stations in the "Bioenergy Village," you turn here and follow the tour to the district heating network at SauerlandBad and the combined heat and power plant at the school center. Via the cycle path, with views over the Schmallenberg Sauerland, you reach Holthausen with two stations showing (additional) heating with wood and solar thermal energy and the importance of renewables in the electricity mix. Continuing to Niedersorpe, you arrive at the information points for photovoltaics and the controllable local substation transformer. Along the Sorpe and then the Lenne (Lenneroute cycle path), the tour reaches the final stations in Oberkirchen, district heating and hydropower, and the hydropower plant in the Schwarzen Fabrik.
on the "Renewable Energy Tour" website
You can easily reach the starting point of the "Renewable Energy Tour" in Schmallenberg via the "Lenneroute" cycle path or by
Tour information
Cultural Interesting
Familiy-Friendly
Stop at an Inn
Directions & Parking facilities
Address for navigation system: Poststraße 7, 57392 Schmallenberg
For timetable information: rlg-online.de
For the return trip from Oberkirchen to Schmallenberg, you can use bus line S40 (for timetable information)
Additional information
on the "Renewable Energy Tour" website
The Renewable Energy Tour was funded with resources from the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation, and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Author
Gästeinformation Schmallenberger Sauerland
Organization
Schmallenberger Sauerland Tourismus
License (master data)
Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author
If you want to explore the route by e-bike, you can rent e-bikes through the Schmallenberg Sauerland Guest Information.
Along the route, you will find several battery charging stations.
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