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König-Ludwig Trail – Bienenhort Suderwich Beekeeping loop from Horsthausen

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

König-Ludwig Trail – Bienenhort Suderwich Beekeeping loop from Horsthausen

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König-Ludwig Trail – Bienenhort Suderwich Beekeeping loop from Horsthausen

00:35

14.6km

50m

Road cycling

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 17, 2026

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1.61 km

König-Ludwig Route: Northern section from Recklinghausen-Röllinghausen to Horneburg

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

In 1885, mining began in the south of Recklinghausen for the König Ludwig colliery, which is named after the Bavarian King Ludwig II. The fairy tale king who also built the famous Neuschwanstein Castle near Füssen. The first shaft was on today's Alte Grenzstrasse. In 1902, production started on the new IV / V mine in Suderwich. To the east of Suderwich, production began on the new third shaft VII / VIII at the beginning of the 1930s. We will even take a closer look at the locations on the tour in chronological order from I / II / VI through IV / V to VII / VIII. KLT

The König Ludwig colliery had a lasting effect on the cultural sector in the Ruhr area. After the Second World War, it supplied Hamburg theaters with coal for heating by bypassing the controls by the occupiers, which is why actors finally went to the Ruhr area to retaliate for a guest performance - the Ruhr Festival emerged from this action. At the end of the 1950s, the colliery was gradually closed in the wake of the general coal sales crisis. The colliery was shut down in 1965.

The old colliery railway connecting the pits to the loading port on the Rhine-Herne Canal was expanded in sections to form a cycle path -

the König-Ludwig-Trasse - KLT

The route, which is technically known as the railway cycle path, is around 9 kilometers long. The König-Ludwig-Trasse is signposted through the NRW cycle network. Rusty steel signs with the abbreviation KLT (see figure above) can be found here and there, e.g. in connection with information boards.

See also the free Radrouterplaner NRW radroutenplaner.nrw.de
and
ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de/koenig-ludwig-trasse.html

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7.34 km

Start or End of the König-Ludwig Trail

Highlight • Cycleway

Not a nice highlight, but please just keep building the König Ludwig route.
Via Datteln "Hagemer Feld", over the "Im Winkel" bridge, over the Verbandstrasse bridge and to the "Halde Ewald continuation" to Oer Erkenschwick.
Then this highlight could also be omitted.

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7.50 km

König-Ludwig Trail

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The eastern entry near Becklem is the temporary end of the König-Ludwig-Trasse, which leads from the Rhine-Herne Canal to Suderwich and Becklem and is later to be continued to Oer-Erkenschwick. The route on a former coal mine train route is one of the most beautiful bike paths in Vest Recklinghausen, along with the Allee des Wandels (from the Hoheward dump to Westerholt).

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11.1 km

Bienenhort Suderwich Beekeeping

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You can buy honey from the private apiary BIENENHORT SUDERWICH in Recklinghausen directly on the former railway line. Delicious.

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11.3 km

König-Ludwig Trail — Cable Pulley

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The König-Ludwig-Trasse KLT is the former railway line in the Ruhr area in the cities of Castrop-Rauxel and Recklinghausen, which connected the König Ludwig collieries with the coal loading port on the Rhine-Herne Canal in Herne.

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14.6 km

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Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

12.3 km

2.13 km

213 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

11.0 km

3.09 km

515 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Wednesday 8 July

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14°C

16 %

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König-Ludwig Trail – Bienenhort Suderwich Beekeeping loop from Horsthausen

König-Ludwig Route: Northern section from Recklinghausen-Röllinghausen to Horneburg

Start or End of the König-Ludwig Trail

König-Ludwig Trail

Bienenhort Suderwich Beekeeping

König-Ludwig Trail — Cable Pulley

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