Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt – Löwenpark Westerholt loop from Westerholt

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Kreis Recklinghausen

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Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt – Löwenpark Westerholt loop from Westerholt

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Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt – Löwenpark Westerholt loop from Westerholt

01:16

4.94km

20m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 19, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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128 m

Westerholt Castle Hiking Car Park

Highlight • Parking

Small car park short distances to the cemetery or the village

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416 m

Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt

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The forest is used as a cemetery. Among the numbered trees are tombs. People who stand there in the forest are mourners.

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494 m

Rest Spot in Nature

Highlight • Forest

A wonderfully quiet place in the evenings.

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1.32 km

Westerholt Forest

Highlight • Forest

gelsenkirchen.de/de/freizeit/ausfluege_und_sehenswuerdigungen/parks_und_halden/westerholter_wald.aspx

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The Westerholter Forest (Westerholter Str./Ostring) is a fairly large mixed forest area on the edge of the Buer district. There was a so-called lion park here for a …

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3.31 km

Löwenpark Westerholt

Highlight • Forest

Hard to believe that there was a kind of safari park here from 1968 to 1988, with predators that you could watch roaming freely from the car.

More information at e.g.:
www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag-loewenpark-westerholt-100.html
and
gelsenkirchener-geschichten.de/wiki/Löwenpark

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4.19 km

Golf Club Schloss Westerholt

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Hiking across the golf course

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4.42 km

The Kastanienallee is located in the landscape protection area in the Westerholter Baut. In 2014, 94 chestnut trees were newly planted.
After the old chestnut trees had to be felled due to damage caused by illness.

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4.66 km

Entrance Gate to Schloss Westerholt Park

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"The Westerholt moated castle, built in the 19th century and completely renovated in 1993, is located on the edge of the Westerholt forest.

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4.94 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.43 km

1.39 km

1.12 km

Surfaces

2.24 km