View from Glessener Höhe – DMB Himmelsleiter Trails loop from Frechen-Königsdorf

Mountain biking trails

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhein-Erft-Kreis

Frechen

View from Glessener Höhe – DMB Himmelsleiter Trails loop from Frechen-Königsdorf

Hard

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370

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View from Glessener Höhe – DMB Himmelsleiter Trails loop from Frechen-Königsdorf

02:11

31.2km

230m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 28, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that may be dangerous

A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.

After 25.9 km for 19 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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4.01 km

View of Cologne and the surrounding area from Naturpark Rheinland

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Route on the edge of the forest with a beautiful view of Cologne and the surrounding area

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4.24 km

Forest Trail in Naturpark Rheinland

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from both sides passable, because it goes up and down, or vice versa :-)

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9.11 km

View over Rhein-Erft District to Aachen

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in good visibility, continue to the Eifel

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11.2 km

View from Glessener Höhe

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The Glessener Höhe is an artificially constructed hill. It is a former, now recultivated, spoil heap (tipping site) of the surrounding brown coal open-cast mines.

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11.9 km

Descent from Glessener Höhe (Southern Route)

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From the vantage point you can let your bike over the forest path run beautiful. But you should pay attention to hikers!

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21.8 km

Bridge Over the Brown Coal Railway

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Connection between Glessener Höhe and Abtsbusch

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25.9 km

DMB Himmelsleiter Trails

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New, landscaped trails. Opening August/September 2025

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31.2 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

25.3 km

4.14 km

1.76 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

17.8 km

6.90 km

4.91 km

1.41 km

283 m

Elevation

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Highest point (200 m)

Lowest point (80 m)

Weather

Sunday 1 November

9°C

7°C

61 %

Additional weather tips

There’s a fairly high chance of rain. Consider packing a waterproof jacket.

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Comments

March 14, 2024,Bio MTB Glessener Höhe ☀️🚵🏼‍♂️

2nd tour with the new-old-pimped Ghost. The Ghost is really fun 🤩
I'll test it out in the bike park soon...

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March 6, 2022,Königsdorfer Wald Rundtour

Small quick test lap to break in the new brake pads from Trickstuff. It's really fun when you know the trails slowly and do a rideable lap 🤙🏻

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November 11, 2023,Kleine Samstags Runde 😊

It's good if you know the paths. 😜

Because of the foliage, it's easy to get off the path. 😂.

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June 9, 2025,Korridor überm Königsdorfer Forst - Blick nach Köln

🌧️ ☀️ Rain ☀️ 🌧️ Sun 🌧️ ☀️
Planned "elsewhere" tours postponed until "another time"
The weather apps weren't that reliable, but we still located a sunny corridor near Cologne-Pulheim on Whitsun Sunday evening and quickly found a route to follow.
Although everything was fine everywhere on the morning of our start, we still rode into the less hilly outskirts …

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May 22, 2022,MTB Neue Gabel 😍

What should I. to say? Even small changes, then The New Lyric is awesome. 💪🏼

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March 10, 2022,Kleine Feierabend runde 😊🌲🍁🍂

A little round today
The forest.

There was one or the other branch to avoid, 😜 but otherwise the paths are good to drive again.

There was a group of deer and deer up at the edge of the forest ☺️.

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July 21, 2023,MTB Glessener Höhe Klassiker mit EMTB aber ohne E

Turn off the engine for training 💪🏼🥵 with the Levo SL it works perfectly.
Still 🔝cut😜

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July 15, 2024,Glessener Höhe - Feierabendtour

Finally made use of the nice weather after work (it's currently drizzling again).
Climb to the summit cross with the obligatory summit selfie.
Then criss-cross around the Glessener Höhe.
Afterwards a detour to Fischbachhöhe and a quick shopping trip at the end.
If you cycle that much, you shouldn't starve. 😉

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