NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung (Wümme Depression)

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Germany

Lower Saxony

NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung (Wümme Depression)

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NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung (Wümme Depression)

08:27

33.4km

60m

Hiking

Endless expanses under a wildly changing sky – the Wümme lowlands, with their meadows, floodplains, and wooded dunes, are a unique landscape. You'll explore it on this challenging 33.5-kilometer hike.

The circular trail takes you along the Wümme River, sometimes closer to the river, sometimes less, and offers magnificent views…

by Touristikverband LK Rotenburg

Last updated: July 21, 2025

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

Please check local regulations for:

Wümmeniederung mit Rodau, Wiedau und Trochelbach

Waypoints

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Parking

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760 m

Forest playground at the Ahe

Highlight • Rest Area

Beautiful forest playground with a lot of games.

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6.53 km

Forest classroom

Highlight • Rest Area

This place is great for a break, as the view of the vast Wümmewiesen is just fantastic.

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7.64 km

In die Luft Gehen Sculpture

Highlight • Monument

Wonderfully entertaining sculpture by the artist Bernd Hanewinkel from Bülstedt.

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16.2 km

Vossberge Inland Dunes

Highlight • Natural Monument

One of the few remaining former shifting dunes that formed after the last Ice Age. Today, they no longer shift.

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17.1 km

Wümme Meadows

Highlight • Natural

The hiking trail leads through the meadows here.

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24.3 km

Hassendorfer Weir

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The Hassendorfer Weir. Very impressive industrial monument. Built in the 1920s to ensure water regulation when draining the nearby bogs.

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26.6 km

Pilgrim Sculptures on the Trienenwiese

Highlight • Monument

Here, not only does a wooden sofa invite you to linger, but above all you can marvel at the sculpture group "Pilger", which was created by a local group of artists and is wonderfully bizarre.

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28.8 km

Westermoor Dunes

Highlight • Natural Monument

A rather small, flat dune field, it's nevertheless a sight to see along the way, especially since cave dwellers have dug their tunnels into the sandy ground near the trail. The flat dunes are lightly wooded or covered with heather.

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30.4 km

Rest Area at the Former Unterstedt Weir

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The Wümme lowlands are particularly attractive because the hiking trail often takes you back to the Wümme and you can then observe its romantic course very well.

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32.6 km

Gothard Bridge Over the Wümme

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There is a sandy section at the bridge that also serves as a bathing beach. The Wümme widens considerably here and is therefore rather gentle and shallow.

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33.4 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

23.2 km

4.93 km

4.33 km

977 m

Surfaces

14.6 km

8.41 km

3.79 km

3.63 km

2.88 km

104 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 9 October

14°C

8°C

90 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 26.0 km/h

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Comments

June 12, 2022,NORDPFAD "Wümmeniederung"👍🥾🍀🌲😎

Super cool tour. I was allowed to accompany a small group on the NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung today 🥾🥾. Was very fun.

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January 31, 2023,Nordpfad-Wanderung: Wümmeniederung

I started from home at 6:20 a.m. and hiked to the AHE via the Rotenburger train station. We continued via Sottrum to Everinghausen. On the way back I went via Hellwege and the Unterstedter weir back to Rotenburg. It rained from noon. I will hike the tour again in spring.

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June 28, 2024,NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung 🏖️🏞️☁️🌞

The NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung is quite long, but it is worth walking the route in one go. The landscape is truly unique and it never gets boring. I personally can highly recommend the circular route.

All information about the NORDPFAD at: nordwaerts.de/aktiv-entspannt/tour/nordpfad-wuemmeniederung-100258948 (as of June 29, 2024).

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November 5, 2022,Wümme: einmal hin. Alles drin! 🪶🦌🦄🐄🦡🐾🐓🐗🦅🍁

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June 24, 2024,NORDPFAD - Wümmeniederung

It had been on my list for a long time, I've actually walked all the sections before, but never the entire route. And now, spontaneously, a nice hiking companion, plus what feels like the first real summer day and this NP, which is shady in many places and winds its way through the Wümme lowlands.
The start was in Hellwege …

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July 1, 2023,Nordpfad Wümmeniederung

Today we started the north path Wümmeniederungen in Hellwege in cloudy weather. The worst that could happen to us was 30 kilometers in the rain. Lo and behold we had 30 kilometers in the rain. Nevertheless, we had a wonderful tour along the Wümme.

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July 30, 2024,Nordpfad Wümmeniederung vom Ahe Spielplatz Rotenburg

Unfortunately "ONLY" up to km 20... The heat and the sun got to me, I drank almost 4 liters of water to get there. I got dizzy and cold, so I had to ask someone to pick me up. I showered at home, put my feet up, everything was fine again. The heat was unpredictable...

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November 18, 2023,NORDPFAD Wümmeniederung (Teil 2)

From about km 9 onwards I continued walking with water in my shoes and wet feet. In a depression the water was approximately up to the middle of the shins, no way out😩
It was just a new experience😄

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April 4, 2025

Endless expanses under a wildly changing sky – the Wümme lowlands, with their meadows, floodplains, and wooded dunes, are a unique landscape. You'll explore it on this challenging 33.5-kilometer hike.
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The circular trail takes you along the Wümme River, sometimes closer to the river, sometimes less, and

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