Halberstadt - Quedlinburg (circular route)

40.27 km long
Round trip
Difficulty: medium
Condition: easy
Great panorama
Bicycle
  • 2:55 h
  • 40.27 km
  • 242 m
  • 218 m
  • 120 m
  • 192 m
  • 72 m
  • Start: Tourist Information Halberstadt (town hall)
  • Destination: Landscape park Spiegelsberge Halberstadt

This beautiful circular cycling route takes you to the UNESCO World Heritage town of Quedlinburg. Along the way, you can expect impressive park architecture, bizarre sandstone formations, and the unique cave dwellings in Langenstein.

 Worth seeing: 

  •  Halberstadt with cathedral, museums, old town and much more.
  • Halberstadt zoo  (witch stamp)
  • historic landscape park Spiegelsberge (witch stamp)
  • Viewing point "Gläserner Mönch" in the Thekenbergen (witch stamp)
  • Cave dwellings Langenstein (witch stamp)
  • Memorial for the victims of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp
  • Westerhausen animal park
  • Königstein Westerhausen (HWN stamp)
  • Quedlinburg with historic half-timbered old town, town hall, collegiate church and much more.
  • Klusberge near Halberstadt (witch stamp)

Places to eat

  • Landhotel Schäferhof Langenstein
  • Ice cream café Damköhler in Westerhausen
  • Numerous restaurants in Quedlinburg

Good to know

Best to visit

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Depends on weather

Directions

Start: Tourist Information in the town hall

Continue on Heinrich Julius Street heading south,

go straight ahead at the traffic light intersection onto Spiegel Street.

Follow the signs for the Aller-Harz Cycle Path over Spiegelsbergenweg

turn right at the landscape park and cycle along the edge of the forest

Detour Landscape park Spiegelsberge: follow the signs

past the orchard meadow to the Alte Blankenburger Heerstraße and follow it

take the right path along the Thekenberge

Detour Gläserner Mönch: follow signs 

In Langenstein via Quedlinburger Street and Dorf Street to Börnecke

Detour Cave Dwellings Langenstein: follow the signs via Friedhofstraße to Schäferberg

From the town exit follow Goldbach and the Aller-Harz Cycle Path signs towards Börnecke

Cross the railway and continue on the Aller-Harz Cycle Path

Cross Goldbach and continue on the Aller-Harz Cycle Path,

shortly behind the bridge turn left towards Börnecke

Cross the railway and continue straight ahead to reach Börnecke

In Börnecke via Blankenburger Street and Westerhäuser Street to Westerhausen

Follow Aller-Harz Path towards Westerhausen

Cross motorway A36 via underpass

Keep left on Börnecker Street to reach Westerhausen,

In Westerhausen via Börnecker Street, An der Untermühle, Schäferhof, Straße des Friedens, Feld Street, Kuckucksberg to Quedlinburg

Detour Königstein: follow the signs via Börnecker Street

Detour Animal Park: follow the signs via Agnetenberg

Turn left into the field path, then right along the forest edge

Continue straight ahead onto Bornholzwegsiedlung

In Quedlinburg via Bornholzweg, Wipertistrasse, West Street, Schiller Street, Halberstädter Street, Steinholztriftweg to Halberstadt

Detour Quedlingburg: half-timbered old town, town hall, collegiate church

Take the field path and follow the signs for the Wartenrundweg 

Cross A36 via overpass

Turn right at Petersberg and follow the signs to B79

Continue on the cycle path along B79 

Pass through Münchenhof and continue on the cycle path

At the fork, turn left, then immediately right towards Klusberge

Turn left before B79, then right at the garden area

Turn left and ride along the forest edge to reach Vor der Klus

Detour Klusberge: follow the signs

In Halberstadt:Vor der Klus, Hans Neupert Street, Kirschallee, Spiegelsbergenweg, Spiegel Street, Heinrich Julius Street to return to the center

Directions & Parking facilities

Free large area parking "Düsterngraben"

You can reach Halberstadt by train from Magdeburg, Halle or Thale (Abellio)

Schedule information: www.insa.de | www.bahn.de

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