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Lumda cycle route: Lollar - Grünberg

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    The Lumda cycle route connects the industrial city of Lollar with the historic old town of Grünberg through the idyllic and rural Lumda valley.

    easy
    Distance 28.3 km
    2:00 h
    176 m
    66 m
    298 m
    164 m

    The route leads into the Lumda valley – gentle hills, beautiful meadow valleys. Curved bends, minimal gradient, from Londorf you are mostly on a former railway track. The route follows the track of the Lumdatal railway. It formerly connected Grünberg (Vogelsberg Railway) with Lollar (Main-Weser Railway) and was abandoned in 1981. 

    Along the way you will encounter sculptures made from local basalt lava (Londorfer Lungstein), created between 1997 and 2005 during several international sculptor symposia in the quarry of the community of Rabenau.

    Author’s recommendation

    Staufenberg: Staufenberg Castle from the 13th century;
    Allendorf: Old half-timbered town with town tower of the former fortification;
    Rabenau: Castle garden, Londorf, Protestant church - "Dom der Rabenau"
    Grünberg: Marketplace with Thieves' Tower

    Difficulty
    easy
    Overall difficulty
    easy

    Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

    Experience
    Landscape
    Highest point
    Grünberg, 298 m
    Lowest point
    164 m
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    Rest stops

    Hotel Mühlenhof Inn
    Ice Cream Silano
    Restaurant Ritterkeller - Staufenberg Castle
    Ice cream parlour Roberto
    Pub at the Castle Garden Londorf
    WaggonBistro Track 1

    Safety information

    Paths / Suitability / Gradients: This stage starts flat along the Lahn and from Lollar in the valley of the Lumda. A climb behind the former Mainzlar station begins the second section. The path then tends to rise very gently up to Galgenberg near Stangenrod. The route is cycled on cycle and farm roads, interrupted by short road sections, on firm ground.

    Tips and suggestions

    TAK Gießen Lahntäler

    Tarjanplatz 1

    35460 Staufenberg

    Tel. +49 6406 80924 | info@giessener-lahntaeler.de

    www.giessener-lahntaeler.de


    Tourist office in town hall, Rabegasse 1, 35305 Grünberg, Tel. 0 64 01/80 4-114, www.gruenberg.de

    Bicycle service:
    Rabenau-Londorf 35466, Aumann Ulrich, Gießener Straße 84, Tel. 06407 5304;
    Grünberg 35305, Zweirad Schlosser, Neustadt 75, Tel. 06401-10 66, mobile: 0171/718 18 89

    Roadbook

    Through the underpass at Lollar station, keep left on Marburger Straße. Turn right into Lumdastraße. Turn left on Holzmühler Weg, where you will soon meet the marking of the Lumda-Wieseck cycle route. Head towards Staufenberg / Allendorf. Staufenberg is bypassed in the valley of the Lumda, with the ruins of Oberburg high above the town. You should allow some time for the rest of the route. There are many interesting pieces of information along the way. For example, at Mainzlar station (2) about the history of the construction of the stations along the Lumdatal railway. Next information is available about Totenberg. Sculptures stand out in a meadow at Allendorf. A detour into the small town, over 1200 years old, is recommended. There is a town tower, remains of the town wall, and half-timbered houses to discover. Londorf is dominated by the "Dom der Rabenau". High above the valley to the left is Nordeck Castle, a former landgravial outpost from the 12th/13th century. In Geilshausen (3) the paths split. The direct connection to the Wieseck valley continues straight through Reinhardshain – Wirberg to the R7. The Lumda-Wieseck cycle route (marking to Grünberg implemented in 2010!) goes left into a wonderfully green meadow valley to Lumda and continues straight out on the edge of the village, past Beltershain, over the L3125 to Galgenberg (beautiful view). Past the industrial area to the railway underpass and right to Grünberg station.

    Public transport

    Public-transport-friendly

    Stations in Gießen, Lollar and Grünberg:
    Vogelsberg Railway RMV line 35, Fulda - Gießen

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    Directions

    Gießen is located in the triangle A5, A45 and A480

    Parking

    DB: Lollar station

    Coordinates

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    50.648408, 8.700643
    DMS
    50°38'54.3"N 8°42'02.3"E
    UTM
    32U 478835 5610770
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    Author’s map recommendations

    Cycle touring in the district of Gießen, 1:50,000, BVA, order: Tel. 0641/93 90-17 67, €6.80, tourismus@lkgi.de ADFC regional map Vogelsberg/Wetterau: ISBN 978-3-87073-414-5, 1:75,000, BVA Verlag, €6.80.

    Equipment

    Normal cycling equipment, drinking bottle

    Localization

    Parts of this content were machine translated from German.

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    Overall difficulty
    easy

    Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

    Distance
    28.3 km
    Duration
    2:00 h
    Ascent
    176 m
    Descent
    66 m
    Highest point
    298 m
    Lowest point
    164 m
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