Haus Martfeld – Oat Barn from 1583 loop from Schwelm

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North Rhine-Westphalia

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Haus Martfeld – Oat Barn from 1583 loop from Schwelm

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5.0

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Haus Martfeld – Oat Barn from 1583 loop from Schwelm

02:30

30.5km

490m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 22, 2026

Tips

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 1.74 km for 64 m

After 22.4 km for 237 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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515 m

Ibach House (Former Piano Factory)

Highlight • Monument

The formerly most important piano manufacturer in the world with its headquarters in Schwelm goes back to a coincidence. Because the building was actually built as a factory for the production of "Barmer articles" (braids, ribbons and cords).

Source: heimatkunde-schwelm.de/Autoren,%20Kuenstler/HEZ/pdf/Ibach_Haus.pdf

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1.56 km

Haus Martfeld

Highlight • Castle

The Schloss Martfeld was originally a knight seat of Kurköln and was built at the beginning of the 14th century. The castle belonged to the former castles chain, with which the possessions of the Cologne archbishop should be protected from access. At the beginning of the 18th century, the castle was quite dilapidated because it was no longer used. A merchant acquired the property and converted it to its present form. In 1954 de Stadt Schwelm bought the castle and today you can find the local museum and a castle café.

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1.58 km

Oat Barn from 1583

Highlight • Historical Site

The oat box from 1583 was Schwelm's oldest building so far. In the late evening of August 27, 2019, it burned in the park of the Marfeld house.

Thanks to the very rapid intervention of the Schwelm fire brigade, the flames were extinguished and even more destruction prevented. The emergency services prevented the fire from spreading to the nearby tree and thus also to the roof of the south wing of Haus Martfeld.
A big thank you for the once again remarkable commitment of the Schwelm fire brigade, which was able to prevent even worse things from the fire of three half-timbered houses in Kölner Strasse.

The dismay of the population over the burned and charred granary is great - especially since it was completely restored and put up again in 2007 after age-related weathering and considerable damage by the storm "Kyrill". The oat box has been owned by the Schwelm e.V.

The granary was originally located on the Mennenöh an der Oehde farm in 1583, before the town of Schwelm bought it in 1929 and stored it temporarily. In 1937 it stood in the courtyard of the new Heimatmuseum in Schulstrasse, and since 1952 in the courtyard of the Sternenbergschen house in Barmer Strasse, where the museum was newly housed. In 1965 he moved to the park of the Martfeld house by relocating the museum.

Source: vfh-schwelm.de/heimatkundliche-themen/brand-des-haferkastens/index.html

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1.77 km

Martfeld Chapel

Highlight • Religious Site

Friederike Freifrau von Elverfeldt had this grave chapel built in the neo-Gothic style in the immediate vicinity of Haus Martfeld in the 19th century. The master builder was the famous Cologne architect Vincenz Statz. Today the Martfeld Chapel, which is owned by the Schwelm Beautification Association, houses the famous Zimmermann rock collection with its fossils from Schwelm limestone. The painting Lot's Escape from Sodom by the baroque painter Johann Heinrich Damelet also hangs here. The chapel is the meeting place for the Environmental Protection Working Group, among others.

Source: schwelm.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdheiten/martfeldkapelle

archiv.nrw-stiftung.de/projekte/projekt.php?pid=349

vfh-schwelm.de/heimatkundliche-themen/schwelmer-highlights/die-martfelder-kapelle/index.html

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4.59 km