Emstaldörfer

Bernte, Elbergen, Gleesen, Helschen, Leschede, Listrup, Mehringen and Moorlage: these eight villages in the municipality of Emsbüren left and right of the Ems have their very own charm. Cyclists learn this cyclists on the 56-kilometre circular route through the so-called Emstal in the southern Emsland and get to know and love it.

From Emsbüren railroad station in the district of Leschede the tour leads along low-traffic paths and past forests and farms to Bernte. past forests and farms to Bernte. The Fleckenbach near the farming community farming community has been renaturalized where it flows into the Ems. A two hectare floodplain landscape has since provided a habitat for native animals and plants. plants.

Built with Bentheim sandstone around the year 1290 St. John's Church in Elbergen is the jewel of the village. village. You then cycle through the Elberger Schlipse forest area along the Ems-Vechte Canal and past the marina over the Ems bridge at Hanekenfähr. The Emstaldörfer route leads in a small arc past the area where the Große Aa flows into the Große Aa into the Ems and the Dortmund-Ems Canal to Gleesen.

A stopover to refuel is recommended at Querdels Hof. The farm has been growing asparagus since the 1970s. cultivated asparagus. Strawberries for self-picking and other fruits were later were added. The Querdel family's produce can be purchased in the farm store or eaten directly in the consumed directly in the farm café.

On the route between Gleesen and Helschen you cycle virtually embedded in the Ems and Dortmund-Ems Canal. The cycle route also overlaps with the regional circular route of the Emsland Route and the Ems Cycle Route. In Helschen, however, the paths separate again and the route continues along the canal through Hesselte to Moorlage. The Dortmund-Ems Canal is crossed again and past Listrup, the tour leads through the Salzbergen district of Bexten. Bexten. From there, you reach Mehringen a few junctions later and there is already a and from Neumehringen there is a "reunion" with the Emsland-Route and Ems-Radweg cycle paths. Ems Cycle Route, especially as you cycle on the left-hand side of the Ems.

Our tip: The Emstaldörfer loop can be completed shortened on the weekends between May and October, because: Between the Emsbüren districts of Listrup and Mehringen, the manually operated cable ferry cable ferry "MehrLi" crosses the Ems. Up to ten people including bicycles can be accommodated on the ferry.

Hunger and thirst are quenched at the farm café In't Hürhus in the Mehringer Heide, where the Hulsmeier family runs a SwinGolf course and a salt grotto alongside the café. A real experience - every year and every year with a new theme under a certain motto theme every year - for young and old explorers alike, the walk through the corn maze.

A few pedal strokes later, a sign at the sign on the side of the road points the way to Enking's Mühle. In the bakery right next to the over 200-year-old windmill has been producing Delikatess-Pumpernickel has been made according to an ancient recipe for generations. And so you can before heading home in the quaintly furnished mill café, where you can enjoy the pumpernickel cake, which - like the mill cake - is exclusively available only available from the Enking family.