The best dog-friendly hikes and walks around Pferdsbroich

The "Man with Barrel" symbolizes the location of the "United Willich Breweries and Hannen Korschenbroich GmbH," which was later renamed Hannen Brewery. The brewery's headquarters were later moved to Neuwerk, and today the Bolten Brewery holds the rights to brew Hannen beer. For further details, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannen-Brauerei

always worth cooling off in hot weather

Here you can see on a map where you are.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Kaarst became part of world history. Napoleon planned the North Canal. He wanted to connect the Maas with the Rhine.

Kaarster See station is one of five rail stops in Kaarst and a stop on the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is located on the Neuss-Viersen railway line and is the western terminus of line S 28. It is named after Lake Kaarster. The station was opened in 1999 on the Neuss-Viersen railway line to serve the western part of Kaarst. Since then it has served as the start/end point of the S 28, which was newly created in the same year. It is also the terminus at the western end of the part of the railway line that is in operation. Deutsche Bahn wanted to close the railway line completely in the 1990s, but sold it to Regiobahn GmbH, which took it over and renovated it in 1998. The station is located around 900 meters east of Lake Kaarster and at the westernmost point of the populated Kaarst urban area, as well as immediately south of the Nordkanal and Neersener Straße. The Kaarster See hiking car park is 1000 meters away and the Kaarster See sports center, which is not directly on the shore, is 750 meters from the S-Bahn station. (...) On the other side of Neersener Straße there is a bus stop, a P+R car park and bicycle parking spaces. Access to the platform is via ramps and is therefore barrier-free. The station is now the western starting point of line S 28 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is operated by Regiobahn and runs every 20 minutes Monday to Friday from Kaarster See to Mettmann-Stadtwald via Neuss main station and Düsseldorf main station. Two out of three trips per hour run via Mettmann to Wuppertal main station. On weekends and public holidays, a 30-minute interval is offered along the entire route. The station is also the starting point for two regional bus lines from neighboring Willich and a regional bus line to Kaarst, Neuss-Neusserfurth and Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnhof_Kaarster_See

(Only that this highlight doesn't show the North Canal at all, but the Jüchener Bach, @Irma and @Oliver... 🙄) The Jüchener Bach is a river near Jüchen. The Jüchener Bach, whose source is near Jüchen, was originally fed by three spring streams on the eastern slope of the Lösshöhe and ends at Unterbruch, a district of Willich-Schiefbahn, in the North Canal, west of Kaarst. According to an older map, which does not take into account recent relocations, the Jüchener Bach flows from the area of the Jüchen train station in a northeasterly direction to Bedburdyck, then turns north, flows north via Aldenhoven, St. Nikolas, Scherfhausen, Glehn and Kleinenbroich and flows into the North Canal east of the Schiefbahn train station and west of Linning. Tributaries • Kotthundsgraben (right), 0.8 km • Scheulenbendgraben (left), 1.4 km • Kelzenberger Bach (left), 8.0 km • Kommerbach (left), 7.8 km The Jüchener Bach was called Dieckbach in the 19th century and was at that time a right-bank tributary of the Trietbach, which flowed into the Niers on the right bank via a canalized estuary, the Klergraben,[10] near the district of Unterbroich or Unterbruch of Schiefbahn. The source and course of the stream have changed again and again due to open-cast lignite mining and the development of the cultural landscape. Today the stream is mainly fed by replacement water. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCchener_Bach

The Willich-Schiefbahn radio tower (also called the Roman Tower) is located in the east of the Willich district of Schiefbahn near the A52. It is 123 meters high and was built in 1970 by the German Federal Post Office. The tower and the platform are built in a solid reinforced concrete construction. It is managed by Deutsche Funkturm, which is part of Deutsche Telekom AG. The tower is not open to the public and is built exclusively for use as a radio tower. The radio tower is currently (2023) used for mobile phone and radio antennas. The tower was previously also used for terrestrial television and radio. The regional radio station NE-WS 89.4 was broadcast from there until 1996. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldeturm_Willich-Schiefbahn

In my opinion, it is better to cycle than to hike, simply because of the condition of the path.