Berge Castle – Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt loop from Herten (Westf)-Westerholt

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Kreis Recklinghausen

Herten

Berge Castle – Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt loop from Herten (Westf)-Westerholt

Moderate

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150

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Berge Castle – Ruhestätte Natur Westerholt loop from Herten (Westf)-Westerholt

03:25

13.2km

80m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 19, 2026

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Includes short out-and-back sections

Your route doubles back at waypoints. If this isn’t intentional, adjust those waypoints’ positions.

After 2.57 km for 45 m

After 7.01 km for 107 m

After 7.20 km for 143 m

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Start point

Train Station

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969 m

Memorial and Reflection Site at Ruhestätte Natur Herten-Westerholt

Highlight • Religious Site

There is a beautiful memorial/place of worship in the resting place in nature with benches and a wooden cross.

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2.59 km

Siebenschmerzen Chapel

Highlight • Religious Site

In the immediate vicinity is Via Matris. An approximately 70m long archway that represents the seven pains of Mary.

-near information sieben-schmerzen-kapelle.de/dieviamatris.php

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3.65 km

Stadtwald

Forest

4.85 km

Schloss Berge Park

Highlight • Rest Area

A beautifully landscaped park, also with places where you can devote yourself to nature in peace and not be overrun ...

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6.47 km

Berger See

Highlight • Lake

A walk around the Berger Lake is always nice. It is always busier at weekends as many people use the Berger facilities for walking

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7.06 km

Magnificent view over the castle pond to Berge Castle

Highlight • Castle

Berge Castle and the French castle garden developed together with the Berger See into a well-visited local recreation area. It is not without reason that the entire palace complex was listed as a monument in July 1988.

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7.27 km

Berge Castle

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The beginnings of the moated castle Schloss Berge go back to the 13th century. Today the renovated palace complex is used as a hotel, restaurant and conference venue. There are …

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