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Finnish running track in the Bolmke – Emscher 🌊 Bolmker Way loop from Dortmund-Hörde

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Finnish running track in the Bolmke – Emscher 🌊 Bolmker Way loop from Dortmund-Hörde

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Finnish running track in the Bolmke – Emscher 🌊 Bolmker Way loop from Dortmund-Hörde

02:53

11.1km

70m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 23, 2026

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819 m

Emscher Promenade 🌊

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In 2016 the Emscher Association opened the revamped trail along the northern bank of the Emscher river and named it Emscherpromenade: the section of the Emscher Trail from the 2010 created man-made Phoenix lake, to the South-East entrance of the Westfalen Park. Smooth pavement and great connections to the former rail lines into Phoenix West, across the Emscher into Hoerde Downtown, as well as ramps leading into the neighborhoods streets. At night it is well-lit for safety.

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2.80 km

Old Emscher Bridge near Phoenix Park

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On the way to Phoenix Park I noticed this old bridge. Obviously, the bridge and street section became superfluous and forgotten after the Ruhrallee was built. The bridge is now slowly being overgrown.

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4.20 km

Emscher in NSG Bolmke

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The whole Bolmke nature reserve is great. Real inner-city recreation area!

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4.67 km

Finnenbahn Dortmund

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Padded running track modeled on the Finnish moor paths. High training effect and protection of the joints. Length of the lap: 800m

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4.90 km

Pond at Bolmke Nature Reserve

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de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturschutzgebiet_Bolmke
"The Bolmke represents the last remnant of the formerly extensive Emscher floodplain between Hörde and Barop. Here the Emscher meandered in a wide valley. It is a wetland zone that is still close to nature in many parts, but has been greatly changed by massive human intervention. After the First World War, coal was briefly mined in the Bolmke in illegal open-cast mining.
After the Second World War, the Emscher floodplain was reforested with poplar hybrids. Nevertheless, the floodplain forest consists of black alder, ash, willows, oak and hornbeam, maple and red oak. A wet fallow area and a side valley in the west are also covered with reeds and tall perennials such as marsh helleborine and sedge. Himalayan balsam has also spread on the south bank of the Emscher.
The Bolmke is very popular as a local recreation area in the densely populated area and is intensively cultivated used. Problems for the nature reserve arise from visitors' waste and from dogs that sometimes run around freely."

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