Colorful bag - experience the flair of the Ruhr region

Bike touring routes & trails

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Colorful bag - experience the flair of the Ruhr region

Moderate

4.5

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riders

Colorful bag - experience the flair of the Ruhr region

04:01

65.4km

320m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

by radrevier.ruhr

Last updated: November 26, 2025

Tips

Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 20 m for 9 m

After 65.4 km for 8 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.01 km

Beautiful section along the Rhine-Herne Canal

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Here you always go along the canal. That always promises a varied bike tour. And that's the case here too: watch the ships and enjoy the scenery. Simply wonderful! 🤗🤗😀

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14.6 km

Old lock and Henrichenburg boat lift

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This whole complex around the ship lifts and the Schleusenpark-Henrichenburg is an excursion destination in itself! There is so much to discover that a single day is almost not enough. …

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26.3 km

Former mine - Erin Shaft 3

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The Hammerkopf tower in Castrop-Rauxel is a weighty witness to the past of mining. Built over shaft 3 of the Erin colliery in 1920, it is the oldest of its …

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31.7 km

Zeche Zollern Industrial Museum

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The Zeche Zollern is a decommissioned hard coal mine in the northwest of the city of Dortmund, in the Bövinghausen district.

The Zeche Zollern II / IV is now one …

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39.7 km

Lothringen Trail

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A beautiful route that is certainly not as well known as some others around Bochum. District heating pipes run along the route, which give the whole thing a wonderful Ruhrpott …

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51.6 km

Ore railroad line

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Where coal tenders once drove is now a good place to cycle. The many bridges testify to the wealth of ideas in the region when it comes to steel structures. …

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65.4 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

24.2 km

20.9 km

12.9 km

6.39 km

885 m

125 m

Surfaces

36.4 km

22.6 km

2.71 km

2.40 km

1.18 km

159 m

Elevation

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Highest point (130 m)

Lowest point (30 m)

Weather

Wednesday 4 November

11°C

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Comments

August 2, 2025,Bunte Tüte 🎉– Ruhrgebietsflair erfahren

Finally, time for a nice ride today.
Birgit wanted to "relax" while gardening 🌿 – and that's best when I don't help! 😄

Another tour through the Ruhr area has been on my list for a long time.
A varied tour with everything that defines the Ruhr region.
The route was designed by radrevier.ruhr – I love the name anyway.

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October 27, 2024,Ervaar de flair van het Ruhrgebied

Got this ride from Komoot: sometimes you shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel. It's a beautiful ride through the Ruhr area, mainly on old railway lines. Extra magical all because of the beautiful autumn colours.

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August 17, 2024,RevierRoute "Bunte Tüte"

And the Ruhr area again 😀 We have discovered the Ruhr area for ourselves, many thanks to "radrevier.ruhr🌲" for planning the tour. It was fantastic again, the route couldn't be better. One highlight after another, there is no shortage of opportunities to take a break 🌭🌭🥮🍜🍟🍟🍺🍺the almost 70 km flew by. We'll be back, dear Ruhr area 😎😎😇

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September 3, 2024,Recklinghausen Hbf nach Innenstadt von Recklinghausen

Another great tour. The highlight was the Hoheward slag heap. A strenuous climb, but the views quickly made us forget the effort.

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August 17, 2025,Bunte Tüte – Ruhrgebietsflair erfahren

Hello everyone, I did the tour today because it was spontaneously suggested to me. In short, it was really fun, but some sections are difficult to manage with a touring e-bike. Especially the stairs up to the ore railway line. That might be manageable with a light bike. But older people won't be able to get up there with a …

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March 29, 2024,Und wieder Bochum mal anders am 29.03.2024

13.56 new kilometers
🏘 Completed 25% of Deinighausen
-- From Wandrer.earth

September 11, 2024,bunte Tüte mit Ruhrgebietsflair

Today was a mixed bag... oh no... filled like a colorful bag🙃.

We walked along beautiful canal and railway paths... through some former workers' settlements and past slag heap landscapes.

The historic Henrichenburg boat lift with its attached museum made us linger... meanwhile, unnoticed, a rain shower passed over the land.

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June 25, 2025,Vielseitige Tour durch das Revier zwischen Henrichenburg und Bochum

I took a very varied tour through the beautiful region in temperatures around 30°C. The tour was based on the "Bunte Tüte" (Big Bag) tour from the Ruhrverband, with some adjustments for me. The start and finish were at the Henrichenburg ship lift (plenty of parking). Many sights and plenty of nature, but of course also a fair amount of …

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February 10, 2024

interesting tour.. saved for later👍

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May 24, 2024

On this route you can experience a lot of industrial culture with mine towers, workers' settlements and slag heap landscapes. But nature is not neglected either. Look forward to wonderful riverside paths, beautiful forest sections and relaxed cycling along the railway line. 
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The 64-kilometer-long route

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