View Towards Bergheim – View from Glessener Höhe loop from Quadrath-Ichendorf

Mountain biking trails

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhein-Erft-Kreis

Bergheim

View Towards Bergheim – View from Glessener Höhe loop from Quadrath-Ichendorf

Hard

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View Towards Bergheim – View from Glessener Höhe loop from Quadrath-Ichendorf

02:31

33.8km

310m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 26, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that may be dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 20.2 km for 22 m

After 20.4 km for 10 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.35 km

View Towards Bergheim

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With a clear view you can see as far as the Eifel ...

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8.22 km

Bridge Over the Brown Coal Railway

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Connection between Glessener Höhe and Abtsbusch

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12.9 km

Trail in Königsdorfer Wald, Naturpark Rheinland

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nice trail section 👍👀💨

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15.4 km

Blick auf Kraftwerk Niederaußem

Viewpoint

15.6 km

Short trail in Naturpark Rheinland

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Small, short crisp trail. That's fun!

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17.8 km

View from Glessener Höhe

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The Glessener Höhe is an artificially constructed hill. It is a former, now recultivated, spoil heap (tipping site) of the surrounding brown coal open-cast mines.

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20.2 km

DMB Himmelsleiter Trails

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New, landscaped trails. Opening August/September 2025

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24.6 km

Rooty Forest Trail in Naturpark Rheinland

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Here you will find beautiful routes and can explore the whole Königsforst really well.

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24.8 km

Forest Trail in Naturpark Rheinland

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A beautiful path in the forest with lots of variety.

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33.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

26.0 km

4.01 km

2.87 km

488 m

284 m

110 m

Surfaces

19.3 km

5.23 km

5.10 km

3.29 km

918 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 11 October

17°C

4°C

0 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 8.0 km/h

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Comments

March 6, 2022,Königsdorfer Wald Rundtour

Small quick test lap to break in the new brake pads from Trickstuff. It's really fun when you know the trails slowly and do a rideable lap 🤙🏻

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June 9, 2025,Korridor überm Königsdorfer Forst - Blick nach Köln

🌧️ ☀️ Rain ☀️ 🌧️ Sun 🌧️ ☀️
Planned "elsewhere" tours postponed until "another time"
The weather apps weren't that reliable, but we still located a sunny corridor near Cologne-Pulheim on Whitsun Sunday evening and quickly found a route to follow.
Although everything was fine everywhere on the morning of our start, we still rode into the less hilly outskirts …

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July 9, 2024,MTB-Tour - zur, auf und um die Glessener Höhe

With this 🌞 and 😰 weather today, I'm out and about again with the Bio 🚵‍♂️.
And every time I went "downhill" I asked myself why I had previously struggled "uphill" 🤷‍♂️😊.

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