Lengener Moor Path Cycle Path – Hauptfehnkanal Lock loop from Ostrhauderfehn

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Lengener Moor Path Cycle Path – Hauptfehnkanal Lock loop from Ostrhauderfehn

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Lengener Moor Path Cycle Path – Hauptfehnkanal Lock loop from Ostrhauderfehn

01:23

24.1km

30m

Cycling

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 5, 2026

Tips

Includes a movable bridge

Check opening times.

After 17.5 km for 18 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.10 km

Tree-Lined Avenue with Adjacent Woodland

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Unfortunately, the house has become very run down and partially destroyed.

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7.33 km

Rhaude Church

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If you drive from Rhauderfehn in the direction of Holte along the canal (which later flows into the Leda), you come to Osterhörner Straße after a short distance through the …

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11.9 km

Polder Hofer Hammrich Nature Reserve

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The Bietzestrasse leads us in the west axis along the bird sanctuary "Polder Holter Hammrich" and "Polder Leyßer Hammrich", where we see a multitude of different birds breeding, resting or …

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12.7 km

View of the Leda from Holter Siel

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Very beautiful landscape and a nice destination for nature lovers.

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15.0 km

Bird Sanctuary

Highlight (Segment) • Natural

For an immense 33,000 Reichstaler, the 7.1 kilometer long main fen canal was finally completed in 1781. The construction of this then indispensable canal by the "Rhauderfehn Compagnie" took a …

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19.9 km

Lengener Moor Path Cycle Path

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Just lovely here.

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21.1 km

Ostrhauderfehn Lock with Rest Area

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A sufficient water level was essential for the previously busy shipping traffic on the Fehn Canal. Therefore locks ("Verlaate") were built. They made sure that the ships always had enough …

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21.1 km

The Hauptfehnkanal is a tide-dependent body of water and stretches from the confluence with the Leda in the north to the federal highway 438 in the south. Northwest of Ostrhauderfehn it splits into two arms.

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24.1 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

12.5 km

9.23 km

1.24 km

847 m

352 m

Surfaces

15.8 km

6.03 km

1.37 km

579 m

352 m

Elevation

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Weather

Saturday 17 October

12°C

8°C

60 %

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Max wind speed: 23.0 km/h

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Comments

July 29, 2023,Ostrhauderfehn - Hauptfehnkanal - NSG Holter Hammrich

Today we paid another visit to the nature reserve Holter Hammrich. This was worth it in several respects - on the one hand we were presented with a fantastic sky with great cloud formations and only recognizable at second glance, a swarm of spoonbills had settled down and was eagerly searching for food with their beaks wildly swaying back and …

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March 10, 2024,Fahrradtour

I like driving by the water and in small towns like Rhaude. It's a cute tour for in between.

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September 22, 2023,Waffeltour 😋🦋🏴‍☠️

Altitude meters are not right again today 🤷

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June 10, 2023,Auf Umwegen zum Berliner/NSG Holter Hammrich

There should be Berliners from Brokmann for the coffee today, so the tour - to do justice to the calories 😉 - was extended via the NSG Holter Hammrich and the Mühle Rhaude.

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