Toepffer Tower (Töpferturm) – Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau loop from Oberes Lopautal

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Germany

Lower Saxony

Lüneburg Heath

Toepffer Tower (Töpferturm) – Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau loop from Oberes Lopautal

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Toepffer Tower (Töpferturm) – Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau loop from Oberes Lopautal

01:20

5.12km

40m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

Please check local regulations for:

Naturpark Lüneburger Heide

Oberes Lopautal

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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479 m

Wooden Bridge Over the Lopau

Highlight • Bridge

Wooden bridge over the Lopau 😊

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599 m

Bench at the Pebble Grotto on the Lopau Stream

Highlight • Viewpoint

There is a great narrow path along the Lopau. Benches invite you to linger.

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842 m

Rest area at the Ostermoor Ponds

Highlight • Lake

Very nice ponds, a hiking trail leads around it.

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1.33 km

Toepffer Tower (Töpferturm)

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Nice place for breaks.

To the place from Wikipedia:
Richard Toepffer, industrialist (1840-1919). An Toepffer and the time of cultivating the large heath and moor areas, the ruins of the …

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1.91 km

Tree Chronology Installation Lopau

Highlight • Monument

Nice information on the edge of the way. Tells the most important events in and around Lopau on the basis of a tree slice.

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2.57 km

Baumgarten Arboretum Lopau

Highlight • Natural

Various trees were planted here whose biology is described on blackboards.

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3.07 km

Vilmar Trail Loop Around the Lopau Ponds

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

This part of the Lopau riverside path lies in the restricted area and is passable only with an open barrier.

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5.13 km

Lopau Parking Area

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Access to the ghost village and the forest lake only when the barrier is open, since the area belongs to the Munster camp training area.

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5.12 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.13 km

1.39 km

530 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

2.54 km

1.97 km

522 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Today

Saturday 10 October

11°C

6°C

86 %

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Max wind speed: 23.0 km/h

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Comments

October 21, 2022,Lopau: Abschlusswanderung vom Ortsverein

Today we went to Lopau again. The ghost village has a lot of history, not only because of the Zang resettlement in the 1970s. From around 1870, Richard Toepffer brought the steam engine to Germany and plowed the heath into forest in Lopau.
It's always nice here.

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