Rethmar Castle – Gutshof Rethmar loop from Sehnde

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Rethmar Castle – Gutshof Rethmar loop from Sehnde

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Rethmar Castle – Gutshof Rethmar loop from Sehnde

01:08

18.3km

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 segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 51 m for 2 m

After 226 m for 6 m

After 18.2 km for 2 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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5.50 km

View of the old winding tower at Hugo potash mine

Highlight • Monument

If you pass it on the route.

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6.01 km

Field Nature Trail

Highlight • Trail

On information boards bright yellow rape fields are referred to as "oil fields of the future" for vegetable oil or biodiesel, on a potato field "fries from the underworld" are displayed and the wheat field is "Here grows her Sunday cake". Enjoy in the spring the wonderfully fragrant and yellow flowering rapeseed fields or in summer the golden yellow grain fields.

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8.17 km

Former Erichsegen Potash Shaft

Highlight • Historical Site

The Erichsegen shaft was sunk for potash mining from November 25, 1912. The plant was shut down again in 1927. From 1935, the disused shaft served as a Nazi ammunition facility. After the Second World War, the shaft was used as a weather shaft for the Bergmannssegen-Hugo plant until 1994.

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13.5 km

St. Katharina Church Rethmar

Highlight • Religious Site

A church is mentioned for the first time on this site in 1361. In 1724 it was redesigned to its current baroque form. A crypt is built onto the main nave, in which the founder of the church tower dome and the former owner of the neighboring castle, the Cellesche Grand Vogt Philipp Adam zu Eltz, have rested since 1728.

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13.6 km

Rethmar Castle

Highlight • Castle

A renaissance building that dates back to 1710 in its current appearance. The former medieval castle was rebuilt into today's castle by Celleschen Großvogt Philipp Adam zu Eltz. Today it is privately owned by the von Wackerbarth family and not open to the public.

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13.7 km

Gutshof Rethmar

Highlight • Restaurant

Cozy pub, small restaurant, estate brewery, bowling, billiards, darts, bowling, theater, ...
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13.8 km

Seufzerallee

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Beautiful avenue with pollarded willows and historic paving stones instead of mundane asphalt

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17.8 km

Last Cable Wheel of the Friedrichshall Mine

Highlight • Monument

The pulley is a relic of potash mining in Sehnde and is intended to commemorate it. Salt production was stopped in 1981 and the Friedrichshall potash plant was largely dismantled. When the winding tower was dismantled, the disk with a diameter of six meters was obtained.

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18.3 km

End point

Train Station

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