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Hesse
Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Guntershausen Railway Bridge – Melsungen Old Town loop from Kassel Hauptbahnhof

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Road cycling routes
Germany
Hesse
Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Guntershausen Railway Bridge – Melsungen Old Town loop from Kassel Hauptbahnhof

Moderate

4.5

(6)

166

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Guntershausen Railway Bridge – Melsungen Old Town loop from Kassel Hauptbahnhof

03:32

76.8km

690m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 20, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 34.3 km for 116 m

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Start point

Train Station

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14.7 km

Guntershausen Railway Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Great object for photography.

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14.9 km

Very imposing buildings.

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21.7 km

Once the bridge is released again, you can add another mountain stage on the way from Kassel to Melsungen. Then in Guxhagen, coming from the R1, drive over the Fulda, then immediately left

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34.1 km

Melsungen Old Town

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Over 300 half-timbered buildings have been preserved in the old town of Melsungen. Particularly beautiful medieval old town with historic half-timbered streets. A tour is reminiscent of the city's economic …

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34.1 km

Melsungen Market Square

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With an ice cream you can admire beautifully renovated half-timbered houses. In Brückengasse there is a drinking water fountain in front of a bicycle shop, where you can fill up your drinking bottles.

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34.4 km

The bridge takes its name from the woodcutters who moved into the city forest. They whipped their axes (whiskers) at the sandstones of the bridge to sharpen them.
This gave …

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47.5 km

Günsteröder Heights

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Hiking car park and one of the highest points of the Günsteroder Höhe

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75.0 km

Fulda River in Kassel

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The city is located in northern Hesse near the borders with Lower Saxony and Thuringia in the Kassel basin, which is not a basin in the geomorphological sense, but a …

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76.8 km

End point

Train Station

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

41.2 km

10.6 km

9.59 km

9.52 km

5.92 km

< 100 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

71.7 km

2.32 km

1.32 km

1.13 km

467 m

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