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Datteln

Alte Fahrt Dortmund-Ems Canal near Olfen

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Datteln

Alte Fahrt Dortmund-Ems Canal near Olfen

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Alte Fahrt Dortmund-Ems Canal near Olfen

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    Location: Datteln, Kreis Recklinghausen, Ruhr Region, MĂĽnster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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    Top cycling routes to Alte Fahrt Dortmund-Ems Canal near Olfen

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    1. Vischering Castle – Dortmund-Ems Canal Cycle Path loop from Klöcknersiedlung

    51.3km

    03:16

    140m

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    Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    2. Dortmund-Ems Canal Cycle Path – Dattelner Lake loop from Lüdinghausen

    35.3km

    02:19

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    3. Datteln Water Cross – Alte Fahrt (Datteln–Olfen) loop from Ahsen

    32.2km

    02:02

    90m

    90m

    Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    May 22, 2020

    Idyllic bike path along the old route between Datteln and Olfen.

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      August 8, 2021

      Since 1937, the canal has been straightened and widened to the southeast around the city. This is called the new trip or the second trip.
      With the new journey, the route that had now become the old journey lost its importance. In the 1980s, due to the high maintenance costs, it was decided to dismantle this route, whereby part of the canal and in particular the bridges of the Lippe and Stever, which characterize the landscape, remained underneath the canal. From Datteln to shortly before Olfen, the canal character is still preserved. In sections sealed off by transverse dams, a long biotope has been created with the water level reduced for stability, which ends at the former city harbor. The canal has been filled in in the city center. Only at the northern end, where it meets the second voyage, did a marina emerge in the old canal route. In the center of the village it became an elongated green corridor on a high embankment with an educational tree path. Today the Dortmund-Ems Canal cycle route, the "Rundum Olfen" tour and the Steverauenweg, which is presented in more detail later, run on it.

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        February 19, 2021

        The "Alte Fahrt" is the old, original and partly still preserved Dortmund-Ems Canal.

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          Distance 4.91 km

          Uphill 20 m

          Downhill 20 m

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          Location: Datteln, Kreis Recklinghausen, Ruhr Region, MĂĽnster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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