Renewable Energy Tour Schmallenberg (route tour)

From the timber and tourism center in Schmallenberg, the tour on the SauerlandRadring first takes you to the "Brennholz" station in the Breite Wiese industrial estate and to the cutlery factory museum in Fleckenberg. On the Philosophenweg, you cycle along a former railroad line back to the center of Schmallenberg and via Weststraße to the "Nahwärmenetz Kirchplatz" station at the parish church of St. Alexander. The tour continues back along Weststraße with its classicist buildings on the SauerlandRadring in the direction of Bad Fredeburg. There are two more stops along the way, the Energie-Plus-Haus and the transformer station. The route passes Bad Fredeburg on the former railroad line and you leave the SauerlandRadring to the left in the direction of Ebbinghof. After visiting the 2 stations in the "bioenergy village", turn here and follow the tour to the local heating network at the SauerlandBad and the combined heat and power plant at the school center. Via the cycle path, with a view over the Schmallenberg Sauerland, you reach Holthausen to 2 stations that show the (additional) heating with wood and solar thermal energy and the importance of renewables in the electricity mix. Continue to Niedersorpe to the photovoltaic and adjustable local grid transformer information points. Along the Sorpe and then the Lenne (Lenneroute cycle path), the tour heads for the last stops in Oberkirchen, local heating and hydropower and the hydropower plant at the Schwarze Fabrik.on the "Renewable Energy Tour" websiteYou can easily reach the starting point of the "Renewable Energy Tour" in Schmallenberg via the "Lenneroute" cycle path or by.