This cycle tour is a variant of the indeland cycle tour 5 Rurauen-Berg-Route. While the indeland cycle tour is marked with an inset plaque on the signposts, the Brauhaus route is not signposted with its own route logo.

On our tour through the Bördeland landscape, we get to know the town of Linnich and some of its districts, ride past meadows and fields and through the beautiful Rura floodplain. Shortly before our destination in Tetz, we make a loop to Lake Barmen, which promises to cool us down on hot summer days. We recommend stopping for refreshments in the beer gardens of the two breweries in Linnich-Welz and Linnich-Kofferen.

The route is extremely flat without any major inclines and leads along well-surfaced, often unpaved field and forest paths with and without asphalt, low-traffic roads and pedestrian areas in the villages.

Route description

We follow most of the indeland cycle route signposting, which shows us the way almost all the way via the route logo.

From the bus stop, we head towards Tetz and turn right onto Lambertusstraße. At the next junction, we turn right again onto Birkenallee and head towards Boslar. At the end of Boslar (junction 16), we turn left into Herrenstraße and then left again into Gereonstraße. After just under 600 m, we leave Gereonstraße in a right-hand bend and cycle along a paved path between fields to Gevenich. We cross the L 226 and continue straight ahead on the Hochstraße / K 18, which takes us out of the village and to Kofferen. At junction 4, we turn left and cycle a short distance along Neußer Straße / K 17. At the end of the village, we turn right into Katharinenhof Straße. After a good 1,000 m, we turn left towards Glimbach. In Glimbach, we turn right at the T-junction into Gillenstraße and then left at the end into Lange Straße. At the next junction, we keep right and ride along Waldstraße / K 17 out of the village and between fields and through a small wood to Linnich. At the end of the road, we turn right towards the town center and continue straight ahead at the traffic circle (junction) 20 onto Rurstraße. We stay on this road beyond junction 21, i.e. we leave the indeland cycle route here. After about 350 m, we reach the German Museum of Stained Glass. At the next junction, we keep left and cycle along Löffelstraße and Mahrstraße towards the end of the town. At junction 22, we turn left onto Bleeck Street, which follows the curve of the Merzbach stream, and cycle comfortably into the village of Welz. At the end of Kirchgasse, we turn left onto the district road and follow it to Rurdorf. At the entrance to the village, we turn left into Weststraße and then right at the next junction into Felstraße, later Rutalstraße. We cross the Tannenhain road and continue straight on through a small wood into the Rura floodplain. Here we meet the RurUfer cycle path and the indeland cycle route, which we follow for a while until the two cycle paths cross the Rur at Pickartzmühle. Here we continue in a south-easterly direction along the mill pond to Barmen. We pass Kellenberg Castle and cycle through the village to junction 30. Here we follow junction 15, which takes us to Lake Barmen. We cycle along the lake towards Tetz to junction 19, where we turn right into Lambertusstraße, which takes us back to the starting point of our cycle tour.