Beautiful climb to the castle ruins with great views of the valley. For racing bikes mobile (the last 50m to the viewpoint are dirt road). Beware of rain or wet roads, racing tires lose some of their grip on the last piece! If you go down the stairs, you can drive down the back.

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The Volmarstein Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the Volmarstein district of the city of Wetter (Ruhr) in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in the landscape protection area In der Bach / Am Vorberg and is registered as architectural monument no. 51 in the monument list of Wetter. (Source: Wikipedia de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Volmarstein)

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