Weser bike path | Stroll tour

After your individual arrival in Hann. Münden in the late afternoon, you will be given information and handed over your bikes (if booked). The three-river town is where the Fulda and Werra rivers meet at the Weserstein to form the Weser. Over 700 restored half-timbered houses from six centuries make up Hann. Mündens city centre. The town hall of Hann. Münden is considered one of the most beautiful representative buildings from the Weser Renaissance.

Your cycle tour should start at the Weserstein. This is exactly where the Werra and Fulda rivers ‘kiss’. The stage leads to Gieselwerder via Hemeln and past the former Benedictine monastery of Bursfelde.

Today you cycle to the baroque Huguenot town of Bad Karlshafen. The centre of Bad Karlshafen offers an interesting contrast to the usual half-timbered idyll with its pretty, renovated houses in baroque style. You will spend the night in Bad Karlshafen.

There are numerous highlights along the way today: the town of Fürstenberg with its porcelain manufactory and the old Hanseatic town of Höxter with more than 160 listed buildings, mostly half-timbered houses.

Many a romantic village along the way invites you to linger. Corvey Castle, the former imperial abbey near Höxter, offers a delightful mix of art and culture. The romantic town of Bodenwerder was made famous by the world-famous Baron of Lies von Münchhausen.

The Pied Piper town of Hamelin impresses with its intact old town centre, wonderful half-timbered houses and buildings in the typical Weser Renaissance style from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The 13th-century town of Rinteln boasts numerous Weser Renaissance buildings.

At Porta Westfalica, the river breaks through the Wiehen and Weser mountains and reaches the North German lowlands. Minden was once a flourishing trading town in the Middle Ages, but was badly destroyed in the Second World War. It was rebuilt as part of an exemplary urban redevelopment programme.

Individual return journey or additional overnight stay in Minden.