Leine-Heide Cycle Path

The cycle path starts in Leinefelde (Thuringia) and ends in the city of Hamburg, passing through the following places: Heiligenstadt, Göttingen, Northeim, Einbeck, Kreiensen, Freden (Leine), Alfeld, Gronau, Sarstedt, Hanover, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Schwarmstedt, Walsrode, Soltau, Schneverdingen, Buchholz in der Nordheide.

The Leine-Heide Cycle Path starts at the source of the river Leine near Leinefelde in the Thuringian region of Eichsfeld and ends in Hamburg's old town (Altstadt).

The Leine-Heide Cycle Path links the hill country of the Leine Uplands with the Lüneburg Heath and the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.

Forested ridges, scattered orchards and small towns, some with historic buildings are characteristic of this thousand-year-old cultural landscape.

Shortly thereafter the path reaches Einbeck with its very well preserved medieval centre with richly decorated timber-framed houses.

Between Kreiensen and Freden (Leine) the path passes the pumped storage station of Erzhausen and there is a wonderful view of the Selter and its crags.

The path runs past the Steinhuder Meer Nature Park and through the river landscape of the Aller-Leine valley with its meadows, woods and bogs.