Cycling holidays in northern Germany
Get on your bike and come with us. Cycle tour operators such as Rückenwind Reisen, for example, offer guided tours as well as tours that you can cycle individually. Come with us to Hamburg and the Altes Land; especially when the fruit trees are in bloom or bearing ripe fruit, the Altes Land is an unrivalled experience. The Altes Land is known as the largest contiguous fruit-growing area in Europe. Follow in the footsteps of the Hanseatic League to Bremen on your cycling holiday or get to know the customs of East Frisia, a region shaped by the sea
The Weser and Elbe lead you through marvellous landscapes. You cycle from cycle path to cycle path, perhaps to Lüneburg Heath or Münsterland or to Oldenburg in Lower Saxony, where three beautiful nature reserves await you. In East Frisia, your route will take you through the surrounding fens, the moorlands with their romantic farms and ancient locks, while the beauty of northern Germany is revealed in the land between the seas, in Schleswig-Holstein and on the North and Baltic Seas and their beaches. Take your bike on a ferry and head for the islands of Germany: Langeoog, Borkum or Norderney could be your destinations.
Popular cycle routes
Weser cycle path
Elbe cycle path
Lake Constance cycle path
Danube cycle path
On the cycle path through eastern Germany
Let's change the region: welcome to eastern Germany. Cycle through Saxon Switzerland with its bizarre rock formations, tours to Cottbus or along the Elbe to Elbflorenz, the city of Dresden with its magnificent buildings such as the Zwinger or the Semper Opera House. Follow the Spree or the Havel into Berlin: Berlin presents itself in a state of flux, in the interplay of tradition and modernity, like perhaps no other city in Germany.
The Spreewald, with its rivers and canals, is located close to our capital city and is ideal for long boat trips. Organisers such as Rückenwind Reisen offer rally tours as well as cycle tours with luggage transport from place to place. One starting point for such a rally is Dresden in Saxony. From the porcelain city, you cycle past vineyards and castles to Meissen and Saxon Switzerland
Cycling holiday South Germany
Deep in the south of Germany you have ample opportunity for beautiful cycle tours too. The federal states of Germany Bavaria and Baden Wuerttemberg await you here. A cycle route in the south of Germany can take you for example to the Lake Starnberg and the churches and monasteries of Bavaria or around the Bavarian Lake Chiemsee. Lake Constance, which is partly located in South Germany too, gives you the chance for further eventful bicycle tours. Enjoy in front of a marvellous Alps backdrop an almost Mediterranean climate, tours through extended vineyards and orchards and picturesque village.
Time and again, it is rivers that characterise the landscapes of western and southern Germany: Lahn or Ahr or the Altmühl as well as the Rhine and Moselle in Rhineland-Palatinate with its marvellous wines.
Use Germany as an ideal starting point or explore France, Austria and Switzerland.
Cycling holidays in western Germany
Geographically, the division of western Germany is difficult to define. Western Germany is generally understood to mean North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, although Hesse is sometimes also categorised as Central Germany. But we only want to simplify the search here and therefore divide our beautiful country into the four cardinal points.
German wine-growing destricts
And if there would be no other reason to visit Germany for some bike tours, there would be the great German wine, which draws you into the German wine villages. 13 wine-growing districts exist in Germany: from Franconia to Saxony. Maybe you taste a Riesling from the Moselle region or from one of the wine villages on the Palatinate Wine Route? Or you allow yourself to be convinced that even in the deep north-east of Germany grapes for excellent wines grow.
Good wine goes together with good food. So you maybe get at the Moselle a Riesling and a Rivaner together with a delicious trout fillet, a Riesling pasty or a beef roll. In palatinate stuffed pig's stomach and tartes flambée, originated from the from the Alsace, are parts of the cuisine and in the Saxon capital Dresden you can taste for example the Dresden Eierschecke as a delicious dessert. Outside the wine regions Germany offers delicious food too. Taste pork roast, veal sausage, sauerbraten as wall as all sorts of fish at the rivers and the sea, but also vegetarian enjoyments like asparagus and cabbage dishes. You can get solid meals as well as fine cuisine.
As a tributary of the Rhine, the Main appears much smaller, but has a lot to offer cyclists. Its source is in the Bavarian Fichtelgebirge mountains. It then flows on past Volkach and Frankfurt to Mainz, where the Main and Rhine finally merge. The Main may be a little shorter and not as big a waterway as its neighbour, but it is also ideal for cycling
Another interesting and truly beautiful destination is the Neckar. The Neckar rises near Villingen-Schwenningen between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. It flows into the Rhine near Mannheim. What they all have in common: beautiful regions with great wines, interesting sights and superbly signposted cycle paths.
What type of traveller are you?
The world is a book. He who never travels sees only one side of it (Augustine Aurelius)
The genre of our favourite reads also changes from time to time. Sometimes we prefer thrillers and other times an interesting non-fiction book - but whatever interests us at the time, it's always the right choice at the right time.
No matter what type of cyclist you are, we have a wide range of different types of trips in our programme and you always have the choice of travelling in a different way.
If you would like to return to the starting point at the end, choose one of our circular tours. If you would like to travel by car, you can return to the starting point without having to worry about a return transfer.
If you would prefer to do a long-distance tour, then we can recommend great river landscapes such as the Elbe, the Weser, the Danube or the Moselle and the Rhine - the choice is huge! The return transfer to the starting point can be booked on most of the route tours.
On our rally tours, on the other hand, you set off into the countryside from a particularly charming hotel. This way of travelling has many advantages: no suitcase packing, free choice every day whether you cycle or not and many special extras are often included.
Round trips
Distance tours
Centre based tours
Boat and Bike
Bike tours Germany
Town, landscapes, river: Germany has the right mixture
Do you know, what is the best of all? For cycle tours in Germany you have not necessarily to decide, whether you prefer to get to know German towns or nature in the numerous fascinating landscapes. You can experience both in one cycle tour. And as on every cycle tour cycling gives you in Germany too the chance to get to know the holiday country much better than on other holidays. So take your chance for a wonderful bike journey.
Rückenwind Reisen offers you different kinds of cycle tours through Germany. Maybe you take a look if we have an interesting journey for you too? We would be pleased to welcome you on one of our bicycle tours one day.