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Höhenfelder Lake – Dünnwald Wildlife Park loop from Köln-Dellbrück

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Bergisches Land

Höhenfelder Lake – Dünnwald Wildlife Park loop from Köln-Dellbrück

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Höhenfelder Lake – Dünnwald Wildlife Park loop from Köln-Dellbrück

01:54

7.37km

30m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 2, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

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Dellbrücker Heide

Thielenbruch und Thurner Wald

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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849 m

Heather fields in the Dellbrücker Heide

Highlight • Natural

Please note in the Dellbrücker Heide that for reasons of nature conservation only some paths can be used. Unfortunately, this can only be seen on site on the route plans at the entrances. The paths on the lake are taboo!

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1.45 km

Höhenfelder Lake

Highlight • Lake

The Höhenfelder See is a former excavator hole. In 2007 the lake was to be set up as a bathing lake. The district government stopped this project. The area around the lake has been declared a landscape protection area.

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2.03 km

Beach

2.58 km

Höhenfelder Lake

Highlight • Lake

The area around the lake is used intensively for local recreation. Since its recultivation, swimming has been prohibited in the lake itself. Due to the pronounced temperature differences - the lake has both shallow and approximately 14-meter-deep areas - swimming in it is life-threatening and prohibited.

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2.81 km

Dünnwalder Forest Recreation Area

Highlight • Forest

To relax and unwind 👍👍👍

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3.24 km

Carved Wooden Bench in the Königsforst

Highlight • Structure

There are a lot of comfortable seats here

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3.51 km

Dünnwald Wildlife Park

Highlight • Structure

A quiet and cozy wildlife park. The animals are easy to see and the children can run around here

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3.91 km

Dünnwald Wildlife Park

Highlight • Natural

If you spend most of your time in the center of Cologne, you will hardly notice that Cologne has 15 percent forest area. You can easily reach the thin forest in the east of the city via the wildlife park of the same name, past well-known forest animals to the forest pool. Further south you reach the idyllic Höhenfelder See over a hill.

More info:
wildpark-duennwald.de
waldbad-camping.de

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4.50 km

Dünnwalder Forest

Highlight • Forest

Diepeschrather Mühle (8), restaurant and Reiter Hof. There are also parking spaces and a playground here
And you can walk a few meters.

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7.37 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.36 km

978 m

746 m

283 m

Surfaces

4.55 km

1.37 km

718 m

505 m

232 m

Elevation

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Weather

Monday 6 July

30°C

17°C

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Comments

August 27, 2022,Dellbrücker Heide – Höhenfelder See Runde von Köln-Dellbrück durch den Dünnwalder Wildpark

Arrival Cologne Dellbrück train station

The entire tour is stroller-friendly.

The 40-hectare Dellbrücker Heide in the north-east of Cologne is one of the smallest, youngest and most valuable nature reserves in the Bergische Heideterrasse. Dry sandy grassland and calluna heaths are refuges for endangered specialists such as blue-winged grasshopper, mountain sanddrop, natterjack toad or swallowtail, etc.

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January 11, 2024,Wanderung Diepeschrather Wald🌲Dünnwalder Wald🌲Höhenfelder See🦢🦆Dellbrücker Heide🌳🌾🌿

Went for a walk today in wonderful weather🌞🌞🌞

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Höhenfelder Lake – Dünnwald Wildlife Park loop from Köln-Dellbrück

Heather fields in the Dellbrücker Heide

Höhenfelder Lake

Höhenfelder Lake

Dünnwalder Forest Recreation Area

Carved Wooden Bench in the Königsforst

Dünnwald Wildlife Park

Dünnwald Wildlife Park

Dünnwalder Forest

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