Venner Moor Nature Reserve – Heather on the heath at Venner Moor loop from Venner Moor

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Venner Moor Nature Reserve – Heather on the heath at Venner Moor loop from Venner Moor

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Venner Moor Nature Reserve – Heather on the heath at Venner Moor loop from Venner Moor

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4.94km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 21, 2026

Tips

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Venner Moor

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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20 m

Venner Moor Parking Area

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Ideally located as a starting point for a hike.

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560 m

Path Along the Dortmund-Ems Canal

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Beautiful Dortmund-Ems Canal way

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2.37 km

Venner Moor Wetlands

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Beautiful landscape with many small and medium-sized ponds. Here you can watch how beautifully the moor is slowly being renaturalized.

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2.94 km

Wooden boardwalk at Venner Moor

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Wooden plank paths are always a special highlight, this one here in Venner Moor is no exception.

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3.29 km

Venner Moor Nature Reserve

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3.65 km

Wooden boardwalk at Venner Moor

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A very quiet place that seems a bit enchanted and sometimes bizarre. Again and again beautiful views of the water!

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3.88 km

Heather on the heath at Venner Moor

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Sometimes with trees, sometimes with small plants... a varied environment.

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3.90 km

Venner Moor information board

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Neat information board at the entrance on the canal side.

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4.94 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.58 km

2.08 km

264 m

Surfaces

1.89 km

1.62 km

1.41 km

Elevation

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Weather

Monday 12 October

17°C

8°C

76 %

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Max wind speed: 17.0 km/h

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Comments

July 26, 2023,🚶‍♀️🦮 🚶😎 🇩🇪 Senden Bohlenweg im Venner Moor

A walk through a piece of Münsterland that is more than 6,000 years old and has almost disappeared. Two circular routes lead through the nature reserve from the "Venner Moor" car park.

MILLENNIUMS OF MOOR HISTORY
The history of the "Venner Moor" began thousands of years ago. Mighty peat deposits shaped the image of the high moor for a long …

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January 19, 2024,Venner Moor stark vereist

Today it was a lot of slipping to walk in the mirror-smooth Venner Moor. We had to make a few difficult routes because the black ice had spread to many of the main paths.

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