The Wichteltal has coal mines, jungles and a chapel to offer. And at the height there is also a nice park. Any passionate Essen cyclist has often passed by, and perhaps one or the other has briefly considered following the sign "Friedenskapelle" - in order to stay on the Ruhr bike path. But the little detour to the old towpath bridge in the ancient mining area Wichteltal worth it. And you can even discover the most scenic part of Überruhr on the occasion. But in turn. From Steele you drive on the Ruhr towards Hattingen and after one, two kilometers on a beautiful technology monument. May cyclists on the coarse cobblestones curse, the fact that it is here for over 200 years and since 1838, the arch bridge exists, should inspire respect. After all, it is a piece of the original Leinpfads. Today, the paths along the Ruhr are used for recreation. In former times, trekkers with horse and muscle power pulled the transport ships upriver - a miserable drudgery. The bridge spans the basin of the Holteyer harbor, which served the coal ships as a safe haven in bad weather, low or high water and icing. Of the 1880 decommissioned facilities nothing is preserved, but the pool is still there. Thanks to the lush bank vegetation, it now looks like a large pond. This is where the Wichteltal branches off, basically a somewhat enchanted section of the Ruhr valley with its early industrial past. Early mining is never far away along the Ruhr, although nature - unlike in the north - has meanwhile graciously covered virtually all wounds. After only a few hundred meters, you will come across the typical scenery of such areas in the Wichteltal: colliery remains, jungle strips, old walls, small animal husbandry and Kötter houses from solid Ruhr stone, which today are beautifully renovated and in which earlier probably buddies of the long-forgotten colliery Mönkhoffsbank and United Charlotte lived. The Mönkhoffstraße, which leads to the Friedenskapelle and high after Überruhr, one leaves first right and entrusts itself further to the hiking and cycling path Wichteltal. The citizen riot has set up billboards which enlighten where the peek leaves at a loss
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