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There are a lot of leisure-time facilities along our line. We especially recommend:

 

Dierunghausen Railway Museum

The Dierunghausen Railway Museum The Dierunghausen Railway Museum is a complete dêpot with roundhouse, turntable, steam, diesel and electric locos. Travel on the Bergischer Löwe is run as a joint project with the Museum, phone +49 (0)2261 947621.

Osberghausen

Branch-off station for the Wiehltalbahn and near to the Wiehltal Reservoir. Hiking route via the former "Kohlmeier" quarry to Weiershagen Stop. N.B. This station is not served  by the DB trains from Köln, only the Wiehltalbahn trains.

 

Weiershagen

Hiking route to the look-out point, the “Hohe Warte”.

 

Bielstein

Public swimming pool (5-minutes walk), phone +49 (0)2262 99285.

Brewery (next to the platform), phone +49 (0)2262 82141.

Campsite (10-minutes walk), phone +49 (0)2262 1508.

Historic ramparts, castle, museum of local history.


Alperbrück

Walking route to the "Alpetal" (early industrial area).

Big Dahlia exhibition right next to the station from August to October, phone +49 (0)2262 5815.

 

Wiehl

Half-timbered buildings in town centre. (3-minutes walk)

Stalactite cave (20-minutes walk), phone +49 (0)2262 7920.

Public swimming pool (5-minutes walk), phone +49 (0)2262 99285.

Look-out point (15-minutes walk).

 

Oberwiehl

Forest "Oberwiehler Kamp" with ancient oak trees and colonies of rooks.

 

Remperg

Near to the "Bieberstein" reservoir and Bieberstein" castle ruins.

 

Brüchermühle

Walking route to the Wiehltalsperre (Wiehl Valley Reservoir) (about 2.5 km).

 

Denklingen

Old town centre with Denklingen Castle near to the station.

Walking route to the villages of Eiershagen and Wilkenroth, which are well worth seeing.

 

Waldbröl

High rope course (10-minutes walk), phone +49 (0)2291 907674

 

And furthermore

 - from the north to the south:

In Engelskirchen you can find the Rheinisches Industriemuseum Engelskirchen, which is dedicated to the industrialisation of the area and in Lindlar you can spend a nice country-life day at the open-air museum Lindlar.

We also recommend a visit to the monkey- and bird-park Eckenhagen, phone +49 (0)2265 8786; Homburg manor house and the historic town centre of Nümbrecht.

Our very special recommendation is the Silberhardt mine near Morsbach, phone +49 (0)2292 19433. Although it is not situated near to our line you can nevertheless get a first-hand experience how the miners worked back then and also in the mines near to our line.

And as we have just arrived at the river Sieg - why not visit the open air  Windeck museum village?