The railway cycle path on the former Kleinbahn Grifte – Gudensberg(no official title) is a very attractive landscape, but rather unknown Railway cycle path. It is consistently marked as "Historic Hiking Trail ⊥" and does not have its own signposting. He is part of the Eder cycle path, the Tour de Chattengau and des Chattengauweg.
Route profile
- Length: 8 kilometers
- Signposting: Consistently as a "Historic Hiking Trail ⊥". The cycle path itself has no signage.
- Slopes: Continuous ascent from Grifte up to the Kasseler Kreuz shortly before Gudensberg.
- Path condition: Graveled between Grifte and Haldorf, asphalted between Haldorf and Gudensberg.
- Traffic load: No. Only two streets with a lot more traffic are crossed. There is a traffic island on the very busy federal road 254 in Dissen, so that you can cross the road safely here.
- Suitable bike: A normal bike with 3 gears is sufficient, but more gears are better, especially if you continue to the Chattengau.
- Family suitability: The cycle path is suitable for families throughout as it runs largely away from major roads.
- Inline suitability: Only between Haldorf and Gudensberg. Between Haldorf and Grifte you have to switch to the hiking route Ederhöhenweg (E), which runs parallel to the railway cycle path.
background
The Grifte – Gudensberg railway line was a 7.72 km long branch line from Edermünde- Reached out Gudensberg. It was in operation from 1899 to 1979 and was operated by the Grifte-Gudensberger Kleinbahn- und Kraftwagen-AG, and from 1965 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Passenger traffic on the Grifte – Gudensberg railway was discontinued on December 31, 1954, and goods traffic was discontinued on January 31, 1979. The tracks were dismantled around 1980.
getting there
With public transport
In Edermünde-Grifte is a train station on the railway line kassel-Frankfurt am Main (KBS 620). The train station in Grifte is only three kilometers away from the starting point in Grifte Guxhagen (KBS 610). Gudensberg is served by several bus routes, including the bus routes 403 (to Niedenstein and Baunatal) and 500 (kassel-Fritzlar-Bad Wildungen). Not far from the former Gudensberg train station is the 
town hall.
By bicycle
Of kassel coming you drive on the Fulda cycle path until after Baunatal-Guntershausen and further on Eder cycle path until after Edermünde- Handles. You can also continue from Guxhagen out on the old route of the Eder cycle path (R10) to Grifte. If you connect the Railway cycle path, the Chattengauweg (R21) and the Eder cycle path together you get a round trip of around 47 kilometers Edermünde- Attacked out over Gudensberg, Fritzlar, Wobble and Felsberg.
Route description
The small train cycle path Grifte – Gudensberg runs mostly on the former railway line of the Grifte – Gudensberg railway line, which is partly paved, but partly gravel. Only at Grifte is there a section away from the former railway line. For a detailed cycling map, please simply click on the POIs that will immediately direct you to the described position.
Grifte - Gudensberg
From 1 Grifte station building you drive on an asphalt farm road together with the Eder cycle path to the underpass of the Main-Weser-Bahn. Alternatively, you could also follow the unpaved "historic hiking trail ⊥" through the heather wood. This is followed by a hairpin on 2 Branch historical hiking trail ⊥ the ascent on the former railway line through the forest in the shady impact slope of the Eder up to Haldorf. The branches off behind the earlier breakpoint Eder cycle path to Felsberg (Hesse) and Wobble from. Past that 3 Haldorf playground you leave Haldorf again and now travel together with the Tour de Chattengau (of Niedenstein) past a small rest area with a beautiful view of the Edertal to Dissen. Only a few meters behind the former stop, recognizable by the edge of the platform directly on the Railway cycle path, must be the busy one 4 Bundesstrasse 254 be crossed over a pedestrian island. After crossing Deuter Straße, you can now cycle with the Chattengauweg (of Baunatal) south of the Scharfenstein, known among climbers, and reaches a 5 Water treading facility with shelter and barefoot path . A little later you get to the Kassel Cross, the highest point of the railway line and drives past the former loading ramp of the Gudensberg quarry on a bicycle road Gudensberg no. The old one can be reached via a short piece of cobblestone 6 Gudensberg station building Station building that is used today as a youth center.
trips
Chattengau
As Chattengau the mostly open landscape, characterized by wooded basalt knolls, is 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. To continue your bike ride into Chattengau, just use the Chattengauweg, signposted as R21, follow that to the train station after Fritzlar (KBS 621) runs. At Dorla's Chattengauweg from Chattengau-Fulda-Weg (R12) crossed.
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 €, jointly published 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).
