노르더스테트 최고의 사이클링 경로

Great view of the airport ✈️ Hamburg Airport on approach. Exciting and thrilling at the same time.

a very idyllic tour at 6 a.m.

Peat cutting, i.e., the above-ground extraction of peat, is no longer economically viable today. Peat as a fuel has largely been replaced by other high-energy fossil fuels. Many large-scale peatlands suitable for industrial extraction have now been drained. New peat cutting areas are only permitted under strict conditions. Raised bogs have an important regulatory effect on the water balance due to the large amounts of precipitation they can absorb. The preservation of the original habitats serves landscape conservation and species protection, as most species of peatland flora and fauna are considered threatened or critically endangered. Bogs grow extremely slowly; an intact peat body increases in thickness by only one millimeter per year. It therefore takes a thousand years for a one-meter-high layer of peat to form. Thus, bog areas recover very slowly during restoration attempts.

The reclamation of the Himmelmoor began around 1780. Its edges were divided into 1,000 to 5,000 square meter plots and transferred to farmers from neighboring villages for peat extraction. Industrial peat extraction began in the 1870s. Peat was now also extracted from the center of the moor using machines. Peat excavators extracted the black peat, compressed it, and divided it into sods. Turning the drying sods was increasingly done by machine, as was the collection of the dry peat. The low-energy fuel was packaged and loaded at the peat works.

I passed through there on September 8, 1925, on my "Bevern and Hemdingen" tour. This tour features many beautiful forest paths.

There I am on my tour "Hamburger. I didn't sufficiently appreciate the Rothsteinmoor nature reserve on my way to work. I'll make up for that.

I passed by there on August 18, 2025, on my "Hamburg Energy Networks Return Trip" tour. I missed the Rothsteinmoor cycle path. The tour was my way back from work, which I planned with Komoot. I'm happy with the result. This commute leads mostly through beautiful landscapes.

With the setting sun, the atmosphere