The Chattengauweg is a 25 km long cycle route from Fritzlar above Gudensberg to Baunatal. It is an interesting alternative for cyclists Eder cycle path which is much shorter. Between Gudensberg and Dissen, it runs a short 3.5 km on the former Grifte-Gudensberg railway line.
Route profile
- Length: 25 km
- Mark: The Chattengauweg is marked with a green R 21 on a white background.
- Signposting: Either large intermediate signposts or small separate signs under the cycle path signs. To be on the safe side, people who are unfamiliar with the area should always have an appropriate card with them.
- Slopes: There are two notable climbs, between Dorla and Gudensberg the neck, as well as between Holzhausen am Hahn and Dissen.
- Path condition: Most of the Chattengauweg runs on paved paths, only occasionally on gravel paths, which is why the condition of the path can be described as good.
- Traffic load: Low, as the cycle path mostly runs far away from roads. Only at Werkel is a longer stretch of state road 3150 used.
- Suitable bike: Touring bike with a 7-speed gear hub is sufficient, but more gears are better.
- Family suitability: Only with slightly older children who can also drive longer alone.
- Inline suitability: No. Just the section on the Grifte-Gudensberg railway line is passable with inline skates.
background
As Chattengau is the mostly open landscape, characterized by wooded basalt knolls, between kassel and Fritzlar designated. In the east and south it is bounded by the Eder, in the west and north by larger forests. Today in Chattengau mostly grain, rapeseed, sugar beet (sugar factory in Wobble) and Kohl (company Hengstenberg in Fritzlar) grown.
getting there
With public transport
The station Fritzlar, The starting point of the Chattengauweg, is used by the regional train line R39 the Kurhessenbahn approached. The two bus routes run along the cycle route 65 and 500operated by Regionalverkehr Kurhessen GmbH (RKH) and HLB Hessenbus. As a rule, the buses also take 1-2 bicycles with them free of charge, provided the operating situation permits. In Baunatal drive the tram lines 5 and 7.
By bicycle
By Fritzlar the two long-distance cycle routes run Eder cycle path and Hessischer Radfernweg R4, on which one can for example Wobble (better train connections) to Fritzlar can cycle. By Baunatal also runs the Hessencourrierradwegon which one to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe long-distance train station or take local bike routes to the city center.
Route description
The Chattengauweg runs between Werkel and Holzhausen am Hahn near the federal motorway 49, which is rarely seen or heard and therefore does not reduce the attractiveness of the landscape. Anyone who uses the cycle route as an abbreviation of the Eder cycle path drives on, leaves this in Dissen and follows the Grifte-Gudensberg railway line one place further to Haldorf, where he goes back to the Eder cycle path meets. For a detailed cycling map, please simply click on the POIs that will immediately direct you to the described position.
Fritzlar - Gudensberg (11 km)
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The start of the Chattengauweg is quite unspectacular on one 1 Bridge of the bypass road (Erfurter Ring) from Fritzlar, about 700 m from the train station with the 
Junction to the train station away. The two long-distance cycle routes also run here Eder cycle path and Hessischer Radfernweg R4, from which you first drive along the Erfurter Ring through a small forest and past the König-Heinrich-Schule. After turning into Bonatistraße, follow this and Alberstraße to 2 Paderborn Ring, which you cross with the help of a traffic island. You continue on the Brautäcker through the industrial area north and on the Wehrenpfad, the old road layout, to the state road 3150. Above this and the federal highway 49 you drive along a gravel path and cycle on a bridge over the highway to 3 State road, in which you turn left and drive downhill to Werkel. Past the Frankfurter Strasse (Lines 402 and 500) you drive on Frankfurter Straße from the district of Fritzlar out, crosses the Ems and cycle slightly uphill to the Junction Dorla (Line 500), where you turn right and onto the Chattengau-Fulda-Weg meets and together with this a short piece to a small one 4 Crossing drives. You can also avoid the section on state road 3150 just described. Alternatively, you can drive from 5 only a few meters on the L 3150 and then right into the asphalt farm road to a T-junction, at which you turn left downhill over Raiffeisenstraße to Werkel. From there, straight on over Obermöllricher Strasse past the church to the street Am Freien Hof, where you turn right. After leaving Werkel you come to a T-junction again, where you turn left to Hillemühle and then left again on the Chattengau-Fulda-Weg back to 6 . [1] From the intersection, the Chattengauweg leads on an asphalt farm road up to the Gudensberger Nacken. From the bike path or from the top of the mountain with the Kaiser Wilhelm monument you have a beautiful view of the Chattengau. After enjoying the beautiful view, you drive on one 7 long straights at several works of art on the ARS Natura hiking trail and at Gudensberg Golf Park past to Kreisstraße 10. You cross this and carry your bike up a few steps onto the lower-lying footpath and bike path, which you follow on the left Gudensberg follows into it. Over the Nacker Weg, past the sports ground (Lines 402 and 500) and via Fritzlarer Straße you can reach the center of Gudensberg with the 8 town hall (Lines 54, 402 and 500).
Gudensberg - Baunatal (14 km)
From the town hall of Gudensberg drive on Bahnhofstrasse to the old train station, where you turn right onto the old railway line. This is where the Railway cycle path, on which you first cycle past gardens to the Kasseler Kreuz, where there is also a parking lot. You cross the district road 6 and drive downhill through a small forest on the asphalt bike path, which is also suitable for inline skiers, on the railway line past one 9 Water treading area with refuge and barefoot path, one of the few resting places on the Chattengauweg. This then leads to the outskirts of Dissen, where the Railway cycle path is left again, and parallel to federal highway 254 past the Posthof and 10 east (Lines 402 and 500). At the Rössel car dealership, the cycle route then crosses Bundesstraße 254 and shortly afterwards turns left onto an asphalt farm road. This leads along the federal highway 254 first slightly uphill and then along the federal highway 49 downhill with a few potholes in a curve to Holzhausen am Hahn. On the main road, the motorway is crossed and you continue cycling past the 11 BAB bridge (Lines 50, 65 and 402) and over a traffic island before the Chattengauweg turns right into a tarred path. This leads soon afterwards to the left, so that you can walk over a long straight uphill and downhill to Besse, a district of Edermünde, cycling. At the 12 At the entrance to the village, turn right uphill into Danziger Straße and follow this and Dresdener Straße along the eastern edge of the town. On the narrow path then a little deeper into the village, before you turn right up the Friedhofstraße past the cemetery and then left again along the eastern edge of the village past a playground to an Edeka on the northern one 13 Exit drives. Here you cross the Landesstraße 3218 (Besser Straße) and drive along it on a separate footpath and bike path past the Sonnenhof until shortly before Baunatal-Great rides. Together with the 14 You drive leisel under Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße past a rain retention basin on a gravel path on the southern outskirts of Baunatal along. Behind the Leiselsee, turn into Brahmsstrasse and then right into Beethovenstrasse. You then finally reach the city center via Rembrandtstrasse Baunatal with the 15 City center. The tram lines run here 5 and 7, as well as all city bus routes from Baunatal and some regional bus routes. To the Hessencourrierradweg to kassel there are still a good 500 m.
literature
- Cycling and hiking map of the Habichtswald Nature Park - scale 1:35 000, ISBN 978-3-86973-031-8 , € 4.50, published by Kartographische Kommunalen Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (2011).
- HR Habichtswald / Reinhardswald Nature Park - Topographic leisure map 1:50 000, ISBN 978-3-89446-319-9 , 9.50 €, published jointly by the Hessisch-Waldeckischer Gebirgs- und Heimatverein e.V. and the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation (2012).
- KB Kurhessisches Bergland Schwalm-Eder-Kreis - topographic leisure map 1:50 000, ISBN 978-3-89446-296-3 , 9.50 €, published jointly by Touristik Service Kurhessisches Bergland e.V., district committee of the Schwalm-Eder district and the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation (2008).
