Wandern durch das Dhünntal

From Maria in the Aue or the hiking car park Schöllerhof you can walk perfectly in the Dhünntal purely ... beautiful destinations are the dam of the Dhünntalsperre or a hike along the black powder route.

Along the Dhünn through the Dhünntal, you can absorb the wonderful calm atmosphere of the stream both on foot and by bike.
Small paths lead along it on both sides off the main path and invite you to linger in many places.
A wonderful area that decelerates.

Wonderful ways, one can connect with many rounds.

The Dhünn is a 40.02 km long tributary of the Wupper. It rises in the Bergisches Land and has two source arms. A long stream, called Große Dhünn, rises near the two Wipperfürth villages Peddenpohl and Ritzenhaufe, flows straight through their wooded Bachtal, takes up the Purder Bach and the Mausbach and is dammed in the Vorsperre Great Dhünn the Great Dhünntalsperre.
A shorter arm, called Little Dhünn, rises at Hückeswagen-Dörpfeld on the Wermelskirchen border, flows through the town of Dhünn and is dammed in the Vorsperre Kleine Dhünn the Great Dhünntalsperre.
Info: Wikipedia

See beautiful paths along the Dhünn, here and there small bridges over the stream and now and then a gate .... like here😊

Fairytale-like bridge and forest.

Here you come along the picturesque Dhünn. The well-developed path leads very close to the river, so that you can get directly to the water.

Beautiful path and at the end a delicious cocoa with 🍰 lurks in Maria in der AueUpdate: Unfortunately the hotel with the restaurant is finally closed. It will be converted into a children's sanatorium. I couldn't find out whether coffee and cake will still be sold in the future 😔. Lucky for the kids, too bad for all hikers.

The many small bridges over the streams in the area are great.

The Dhünntal invites to wonderful, versatile hiking tours.

Really nice the area.

Scenic river valley. Parking at the starting point in Altenberg.

I had to go through such a gate twice. Whatever the origin.

"At around 40 kilometers, the Dhünn is the longest tributary of the Wupper. However, the water from the Dhünn only accompanies the Wipper for a short distance, because it flows into the Wupper in Leverkusen. Shortly thereafter, the Wupper flows into the Rhine.The Dhünn is best known as the city river of Leverkusen and for its dam, the Great Dhünn Dam and its upstream dam. The two headwaters of the Dhünn converge in the Great Dhünn Dam before merging into the actual river. The source arms are referred to as Big Dhünn and Small Dhünn according to their different lengths.In the past, many areas of the Dhünn were used for fish farming and hydroelectric power generation. However, as part of comprehensive renaturation measures, a large part of the old weirs were dismantled. In addition, since 2010, the Dhünn has been the first river without weirs and other obstacles that is barrier-free for fish and other water dwellers."
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The Linnefe is a 5.1 km long tributary of the Dhünn and has its source in the village of Wenschebach. The Linnefe has 19 direct and indirect tributaries.

A hike through a typical mountainous landscape, which shows us the abundance of water in this area thanks to the many streams.

From the Schöllerhof hiking car park you can hike into the Dhünntal... nice destinations are the dam wall of the Dhünntalsperre

The Dhünntal is so beautiful, but unfortunately so unknown

Very nice route along the Dhünntal.