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Monschau to Aachen on the Vennbahn

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Monschau to Aachen on the Vennbahn

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Monschau to Aachen on the Vennbahn

03:12

58.8km

240m

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You start the tour at the former Kalterherberg train station and from there you cycle north on the Vennbahn cycle path. At Reichenstein Monastery you cycle over the first of a total of three impressive viaducts on this tour. The views from up there are simply wonderful. After seven kilometers, don't miss a detour to Monschau, because the town on the Rur impresses with its idyllic half-timbered houses and its castle complex.

On the edge of the High Fens you continue to Lammersdorf, where you can visit the farm museum. The rest of the route is relaxed, because from here it's almost all downhill. Past Roetgen you reach Raeren with its former train station and signal box - you can marvel at old locomotives and wagons here and there is also a café.

Before Kornelimünster, which is characterized by a historic town center, the cycle path runs over the impressive Itertal viaduct. A little later the Rollefbach viaduct awaits you and then the Vennbahn takes you to Aachen. We recommend a stroll through the beautiful city center with the magnificent cathedral and the town hall. On weekends, the bike bus will take you back to the starting point after the tour.

by Städteregion Aachen

Last updated: May 4, 2025

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After 54.2 km for 73 m

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2.64 km

Reichenstein Viaduct on the Vennbahn

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The viaduct at Reichenstein is an impressive structure! It doesn't matter whether you ride your bike on the Vennbahn above or below. The train used to be here, today it's cyclists and hikers.

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3.28 km

Vennbahn Cycle Path

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I can only recommend the Vennbahn cycle path and the Vehnbahnquerweg (RAVel L45a)
to every cyclist.

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15.8 km

Lammersdorf Farm Museum

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The Lammersdorf farmer's museum is located in an old half-timbered farmhouse on the Vennbahn. It was founded by the Association for Local History and Village Culture Lammersdorf e.V. and has more than 2,000 exhibits.

The farmer's museum opens from 1.5. until 31.10. every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also on Saturdays during the summer holidays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

More information is available at lammersdorf-bauernmuseum.de.

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33.4 km

Old Raeren Station

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The old Raeren train station from 1884 is a sight on the Vennbahnradweg, which runs from Aachen (D) through Belgium to Troisvièrges (LUX).

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39.0 km

Wf Walheim Signal Box

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Signal box Wf Walheim in front of Walheim station with some parked vehicles. The signal box Wf was built in 1890. It was the largest of the Prussian State Railway's standard signal boxes on the Vennbahn. The signal box Wf is a registered architectural monument.

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43.7 km

Historic town center of Kornelimünster

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Beautiful old town with nice cafes and the old cathedral.

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45.8 km

Rollefbach Viaduct

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The 128 meter long and 24 meter high viaduct was not destroyed during World War II and is therefore preserved to this day - it offers a great view of the valley.

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57.9 km

Aachen Cathedral

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The impressive Aachen Cathedral in its present form is the result of many centuries of development and change in the city and the region. In the 8th century, the cornerstone of the Aachen Royal Palace was laid on a former Roman thermal complex. From the Carolingian Palatine Chapel, the building changed over time to the Minster Church and then on to today's Bishop's Cathedral. In the period from 936 to 1531, the Minster Church was the burial place of Charlemagne, and was even the central place of the Roman-German kingdom.

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58.8 km

Aachen Old Town

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The ancient name of the city has not been handed down. Since Charlemagne founded his palace on the remains of Roman baths, the Latin word aqua for "water" can be assumed to be the origin of the name. In Latin texts from the Middle Ages, the place is sometimes referred to simply as Aquae or Aquis, but increasingly as Aquisgrani. It is therefore assumed that the ancient name was *Aquae Granni and that the place is named after a spring dedicated to the Celtic god Grannus. Because of the late tradition of the name, another theory assumes that Aquisgrani was first created in the Latin chancellery language of the Frankish Empire in the 8th century. The French name for Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), like other French city names, contains the component Aix, which can be traced back to the Latin Aquis (ablative locative plural), which very often refers to thermal baths. The location near the Romanesque-Germanic language border is also reflected in the names of neighboring spring locations, Seffent (septem fontes, "seven springs") in the west of the Aachen city area and Duffenter (duo fontes, "two springs") in the area of the neighboring city of Stolberg.

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Way Types & Surfaces

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54.6 km

2.69 km

751 m

336 m

282 m

147 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

55.8 km

1.60 km

1.07 km

212 m

137 m

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Sunday 12 July

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August 27, 2023,GV: De Groene Valleien - Dag 14 - Van Sourbrodt naar Vaals

We set off on wet roads and in cool weather. For the first time I also put on long sleeves. The first 40 km there were simply no catering facilities open, yet there were a lot of cyclists on the road. Today we would ride the Vennbahn to Aachen. But it went down almost permanently. We left Monschau to the …

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June 11, 2025,Aachen-Vennbahn-Trier - Tag 1 - von Aachen HBF nach Mützenich

First we left Aachen and then, of course, almost all of the 52 km were tarred, we saw a lot of nature, always a slight incline, and at 4 p.m. we arrived in the village of the beech hedges (Mützenich).

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July 21, 2022,Radtour mit den Kindern auf dem Vennbahnweg: Tag 3 von Monschau nach Aachen

On the third and last day of the Vennbahn tour, it's back "home". After a night of heavy rain and thunderstorms at Monschau train station, we left the mobile home there and set off for Aachen shortly after 9 a.m. when the weather was dry again. From Lammersdorf it was almost all downhill. Since we "driven away" before the predicted …

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October 19, 2024,Vennbahn-Radweg Tag 1: Aachen - Raeren - Monschau

1st day stage of the Vennbahn cycle path from Aachen to Troisvierges:
Combination of stage 1 komoot.com/tour/736104566 and stage 2 komoot.com/tour/736105070 from komoot.com/user/ostbelgien in one day
The first day on the Vennbahn with my daughter was fun. And we were lucky with the weather: just a few drops of rain once, otherwise mostly cool, but overall pleasant and even sunny …

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June 4, 2023,Venn-Maas - Tag 1(D) - Aachen nach Monschau

Vennbahn cycle path - typical railway cycle path, tarred and with a pleasant gradient up to the HochVenn. The descent to Monschau was steep and gravelled with path damage. Next time just down the main street...

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May 29, 2023,2023 - Deutschland-Belgien - Vennbahn-Radweg #2 (Von Monschau nach Aachen)

Done ... we arrived in Aachen with bright sunshine and a blue sky.

The sun is burning in the ice cream parlor and the hairstyle is perfect because there wasn't much to do today. The first 2 km were sporty, after that it was basically "let it roll".

Let yourself roll down the mountain at 20 km/h - without pedalling.

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April 9, 2023,🇧🇪 🇩🇪 Vennbahnradweg 🚴 - Monschau - Aachen

After a stroll through Monschau, it goes uphill ↗️ back to the Vennbahnradweg and then down to Aachen ↘️ .Through a forest in the German-Belgian border area, it goes in the direction of Lammersdorf and Roetgen, the "gateway to the Eifel". From Lammersdorf to Roetgen it's 10 km and on this way I didn't even have to pedal 🙂 and …

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October 11, 2024,Von Aachen nach Monschau 🇩🇪 🇧🇪(1)

Completely problem-free ride on good paved roads. It starts in Aachen with a large number of bicycle streets.

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July 11, 2023

You start the tour at the former Kalterherberg train station and from there you cycle north on the Vennbahn cycle path. At Reichenstein Monastery you cycle over the first of a total of three impressive viaducts on this tour. The views from up there are simply wonderful. After seven kilometers, don't

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Monschau to Aachen on the Vennbahn

Reichenstein Viaduct on the Vennbahn

Vennbahn Cycle Path

Lammersdorf Farm Museum

Old Raeren Station

Wf Walheim Signal Box

Historic town center of Kornelimünster

Rollefbach Viaduct

Aachen Cathedral

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