The Warmetal cycle path is a 32 km long cycle route from Schauenburg-Elmshagen over Zierenberg to Liebenau. It accompanies the small river Warmth from the source area to the confluence with the Diemel im Habichtswald Nature Park. Between Habichtswald-Ehlen and Liebenau-Zwergen, the Warmetal cycle path is identical to the Hessian long-distance cycle path R4.
Route profile
- Length: 32 km
- Mark: The Warmetal cycle path is marked with a green mill wheel on a white background.
- Signposting: Small separate signs, in addition to the very good signage for the Hessian long-distance cycle route 4, they seem lost in many places. To be on the safe side, people who are unfamiliar with the area should always have an appropriate card with them.
- Slopes: The Warmetal cycle path does not have any major inclines when you drive it downstream. Upstream you have to overcome a few meters, especially in the area Schauenburg.
- Path condition: Most of the Warmetal cycle path runs on asphalt paths, only occasionally on gravel paths, which is why the condition of the path can be described as very good.
- Traffic load: High, as the bike path runs a lot on state road 3211, which is particularly busy during rush hour. But in between there are also traffic-free sections.
- Suitable bike: A touring bike with a 7-speed gear hub is sufficient, down the river even three gears are sufficient.
- Family suitability: No, as the Warmetal Cycle Path mostly runs on busy state roads.
- Inline suitability: No. Just the section between Zierenberg and Gut Bodenhausen is accessible with inline skates.
background
The warmth is an approximately 33 km long tributary of the Diemel and has its source in the Hinterhabichtswälder peaks north of Schauenburg-Martinhagen on the eastern slope of the Wattenberg. Then it flows through the Habichtswälder valley with the communities Habichtswald and Zierenberg and through a narrow valley through the area of the municipality Calden to Liebenauwhere they are in the from Warburg coming Diemel flows out.
getting there
With public transport
Since the timetable change in December 2011 Schauenburg-Elmshagen only with the bus lines during rush hour 52 and 59 reachable. As a rule, the buses also take 1-2 bicycles with them free of charge, provided the operating situation permits. The best rail connection is probably in Zierenberg with the R4 (RegioTram and RegionalExpress of Kurhessenbahn), while Liebenau station has not been served since December 2015. That’s why it’s wrong Bus route 140 between Hofgeismar, Trendelburg and Warburg in summer with a bike rack that can take up to 5 bikes.
By bicycle
While the Warmetal cycle path starts in Elmshagen, it ends there Chattengau-Fulda-Weg. On this cycle path, for example, you can go from Felsberg through the Chattengau Cycle via Niedenstein to Elmshagen. The one also runs through Liebenau Diemel cycle pathon which one to go upstream Warburg or downstream to Hofgeismar-Hümme can drive.
Route description
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The Warmetalradweg runs between Breitenbach and Ehlen on the state road 3220, as well as between Zierenberg and Niedermeiser and Zwergen and Liebenau on Landesstraße 3211. Unfortunately, you can only walk the two sections between Zierenberg and Laar, as well as Zwergen and Liebenau, alternatively, bypassing easily passable hiking trails that are about the same length. For a detailed cycling map, please simply click on the POIs that will immediately direct you to the described position.
Elmshagen - Zierenberg (14 km)
The start of the Warmetal cycle path is on 1 Exit west of Elmshagen. Here not the county road, but the signs to the right of an asphalt farm road down mostly downhill past one 2 Grillhütte and over the railway line of the Hessencourrierskassel-Naumburg follow to Breitenbach. In the small district of Schauenburg arrived the Hainbuchenstraße and Niedensteiner Straße on the Schauenburger fairytale guard past to the main street, where the 
Niedensteiner Strasse (Lines 52, 59 and 152) is located. You continue to follow the main street to 3 northern exit of the village, where the Hessencourrierradweg crosses the Warmetal cycle path. Now on the main road 3220 through fields uphill to the 4 Crossing with Kreisstraße 24. If you want to go to the Martinsweiher and the headwaters of the Warme, follow this and the signposted cycle path. It continues under the federal highway 44 through the 5 Corridor "Böses Feld" and on the Breitenbacher Straße to Ehlen. The Warmetalradweg runs straight ahead over the Mühlenweg and then right uphill over the street Weißer Hof and the Kohlenstraße, before turning right into the Oderweg, which leads past the school in Erlenhof to Kasseler Straße (Bundesstraße 251). This will be close to the 6 gardenstreet (Lines 22, 110 and 117) and you follow the Finkenweg north out of Ehlen downhill and cross the warmth together with the Kassel-Edersee cycle path and the Eco path cultural history Habichtswald. When you arrive at Landesstraße 3390, follow it uphill briefly to the left and then right together with the Hessian long-distance cycle path R4 on Landesstraße 3220 past Gut Bodenhausen, before the Warmetal cycle path branches off again down to the Warme. Both cycle paths now run together on a well-drivable paved road 7 Farm road west of the Warmer past the deserted areas of Namenhausen and Leutzewarden to 8 Warmetal Viaduct from 1896, from which one can follow on Landesstraße 3211, Kasseler Straße Zierenberg drives into it. Via Raiffeisenstraße (first street on the left) you can reach Zierenberg train station (KBS 612).
Zierenberg - Liebenau (18 km)
Zierenberg will be left north on Kasseler Strasse. The Warmetal cycle path now runs west of the Warme on the busy state road 3211 past the farms of Rangen and Strippelmann to Gut Laar. If you want to avoid this section, you can take an alternative Zierenberg to Laar on the hiking trail "inverted T". This leads just behind the 10 Exit to the right of the L 3211 and east of the Warm 11 partly on gravel paths, partly on meadow paths, but all of which are easy to cycle with bicycles until after 12 Laar. In Laar itself, the mill is worth a visit. This always opens by appointment, or on Whit Monday and the second Sunday in September from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (phone: 05606 519125/05606 8450). From Laar you cycle on the L 3211 up and down through open landscapes and forests 13 Hohenborn and the Berghof. Going under the federal road 7 you reach Obermeiser, a district of Calden and the 14 bridge (Lines 130, 131 and 132). Shortly afterwards you leave the place again via the Niedermeiser Straße and drive uphill to the entrance to Niedermeiser and downhill via the Bremen secondary road into it. In the district of Liebenau you get to the 15 pharmacy (Lines 130, 131, 132 and 141) and fire Department (Line 141) past. Finally, you leave Niedermeiser via Buttenstraße and drive on an asphalt farm road through the fields and past a small pond before reaching Zwergen via the pond path. Shortly before 16 Zwergen, the Hessian long-distance cycle path R4 branches off to the right into the street Zum Grillplatz direction Hofgeismar from. The Warmetalradweg, however, continues on the Steinweg through Zwergen and on the state road 3211 to its end. There straight on under the railway line, one last time over a bridge over the Warme and left over the Lachweg Liebenau into it. But even this last piece of road can be saved by roughly following the course of the "reverse T" from the center of Zwergen on the hiking trail "inverted T" 17 Following the edge of the forest on a gravel road to Liebenau. This even slightly shorter variant ends just like the signposted variant at the 18 Ostheimer Strasse (Lines 140 and 141). From there it is another 750 m to the west on Ostheimer Straße to Liebenau train station or 450 m to the north on the Alten Steinweg to Diemel cycle path.
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).
