Tour Around The National Park Of Red Deer Mountains


This tour will lead you to several places worth for sightseeing in the Hochsauerland, Sauerland, and Wittgensteiner Land.

You will visit some beautiful and partly old towns like Winterberg, Waldeck, or Frankenberg.

You will see castles besides the road and the bob run and the ski jumping hill in Winterberg.

But the main events will be the twisting lakeside road of the Eder lake and many other winding roads.

Time is scheduled for about 5 hours without breaks. Some restaurants (for snacks only) are mentioned.

Please note: We drove the tour with a car and all distances are taken from its counter. Your counter may show different distances. So look also for the given signs and for our descriptions of crossings.
If you reach a crossing for which the roadbook gives no advice (especially when priority of traffic turns) please follow the main road further on.

Everybody who wants to may drive some gravel (near Hesborn at km 64,5; see separate roadbook at the end).
This part of the tour is yet not driven by me!

Dist.
Total Dist.
Dir.
Location
Description
0,0
0,0
 start Heinsberg Hotel Schwermer;
direction Kirchhundem
3,5
3,5
   Albaum  
3,6
7,1
 straight on Würdinghausen signs 'Kirchhundem'
0,2
7,3
 right Würdinghausen sign 'Saalhausen'
5,0
12,3
 right near Saalhausen B236; signs 'Winterberg' / 'Schmallenberg' / 'Saalhausen'
8,6
20,9
 right Fleckenberg leaving B236; sign 'Latrop'
1,9
22,8
 left near Fleckenberg nearly turning backwards immediately after a parking area on your left hand; wooden sign 'Scheeweg Schmallenberg'
2,5
25,3
 right Schmallenberg wooden sign 'Jugendherberge'
0,2 25,5 straight on Schmallenberg street to 'Jugendherberge' turns right
2,6
28,1
   Grafschaft follow main road; no signs at all
4,3
32,4
 right  Oberkirchen B 236; no signs at all; a 'Stadt- sparkasse' is on your left hand
0,2 32,6 left Oberkirchen leaving B236; signs 'Alt-Astenberg' / 'Winterberg'
11,6
44,2
 right a ski-run and ski-lift on your right hand signs 'Winterberg' / 'Neuastenberg' / 'Kahler Asten'
0,4
44,6
 right   signs 'Kahler Asten'; almost backwards
1,5
46,1
 return Kahler Asten highest point of the Sauerland,
841 m
1,5
47,6
 right   no signs; almost straight on
0,6
48,2
 left   B 236/480; signs 'Winterberg'
0,6 48,8     bob-run is crossing the road
1,3
50,1
 right outskirts of Winterberg ski jumping hill on your left hand; 
leaving B 236/480; signs 'Winterberg' / 'Zentrum'
1,1
51,2
 left Winterberg signs 'Fernverkehr B236/B480'
0,4
51,6
 right Winterberg B 236; signs 'Marburg' / 'Hallenberg'; there is a McDonalds restaurant soon if you turn left
12,8
64,4
 left leaving B236; signs 'Medebach' / ' Liesen' / 'Industriegebiet Hesborn'
4,1
68,5
 right Hesborn signs 'Dreislar'; only for those who want to drive some gravel (see end of the roadbook); all others straight on to Medelon; signs 'Medebach' / 'Medelon'
5,4
73,9
 right Medelon signs 'Medebach'; follow main road
3,0
76,9
 right   signs 'Berge' / 'Poltermühle' / 'Niedermühle'
0,3 77,2 straight on   sign 'Berge' to the right side; no signs for your direction
1,3 78,5 right   no signs at all; reaching a higher class road
3,1
81,6
   Münden signs 'Frankenberg'
3,3
84,9
 left Dalwigksthal see castle Lichtenfels; signs 'Korbach' / 'Lfs.-Rhadern'
3,1
88,0
 right Rhadern signs 'Fürstenberg'
4,9
92,9
   Fürstenberg signs 'Vöhl' / 'Herzhausen' / 'Buchenberg' / 'Edertalsperre'; don't follow main road turning hard left
2,7
95,6
 left Buchenberg signs 'Herzhausen' / 'Edertalsperre'
3,8
99,4
 left   B 252; after crossing railroad and river Eder; sign 'Korbach'; first sight of the Eder lake
0,6
100,0
 right outskirts of Herzhausen leaving B252; signs 'Vöhl' / 'Edertalsperre'
5,5
105,5
   Vöhl signs 'Waldeck' / 'Edertalsperre'
6,1
111,6
 right outskirts of Niederwerbe signs 'Bad Wildungen' / 'Hemfurth-Edersee' / 'Stadtteil Waldeck' / 'Wildpark' / 'Sperrmauer'; after some kilometers there is a pizzeria on the left side
5,8
117,4
 right Waldeck-West just follow main road; signs 'Bad Wildungen' / 'Hemfurth-Edersee' / 'Affoldern' / 'Wildpark' / 'Sperrmauer'
3,3
120,7
   dam of Edertalsperre biker's meeting and restaurant
2,4 123,1 straight on   main road comes from the right side; signs 'Bad Wildungen' / 'Affoldern'
4,2
127,3
 right Mehlen B 485; signs 'Bad Wildungen'
1,9
129,2
 right Giflitz leaving B485; signs 'Frankenau' / 'Kleinern'
8,2
137,4
 right Gellershausen follow main road; signs 'Frankenau'
0,1 137,5 left Gellershausen in front of 'Fleischerei Barth'; signs 'Bad Wildungen' / 'Albertshausen' / 'Hundsdorf'
7,5
145,0
 right Hundsdorf B 253; signs 'Frankenberg'
16,4
161,4
 left soon after leaving Geismar leaving B253; no signs for your direction; but signs 'speed limit 70' / 'no cars over 2,8 t' / 'land- und forstwirtsch. Verkehr frei'
2,9
164,3
 Frankenberg entrance to Frankenberg; you will come along several schools
0,8
165,1
 right Frankenberg signs 'Bundesstraße' / 'Neustadt'; everyone who likes historical sightseeing may follow sign 'Altstadt'
0,3
165,4
 right Frankenberg signs 'Korbach B252' / 'Fritzlar B253'
0,1
165,5
 left Frankenberg B253; signs 'Dillenburg' / 'Winterberg' / 'Lichtenfels'
0,5
166,0
 left Frankenberg follow priority of traffic turning left; signs 'Dillenburg' / 'Battenberg' / 'Winterberg'
1,7
167,7
 Frankenberg end of Frankenberg; a McDonalds restaurant on the right side
9,8
177,5
 right near Battenberg leaving B253; follow B236; signs 'Winterberg'
0,8
178,3
 left near Battenberg leaving B236; signs 'Dodenau'
6,8
185,1
 right end of Dodenau signs 'Hatzfeld' / 'Elsoff'
2,0
187,1
 right end of Hobe signs 'Elsoff'
4,3
191,4
 right Elsoff signs 'Diedenshausen' / 'Alertshausen'
0,3
191,7
 left Elsoff signs 'Schwarzenau' / 'Beddelhausen'
3,0
194,7
 right   sign 'Schwarzenau 1km'
1,1
195,8
   Schwarzenau no signs at all; follow main street
3,8
199,6
   Arfeld no signs at all; follow main street
0,5
200,1
 right end of Arfeld follow main road; signs 'Bad Berleburg' / 'Dotzlar'
1,4
201,5
   Dotzlar signs 'Bad Berleburg' / 'Raumland'
3,4
204,9
 right behind Raumland B 480; signs 'Winterberg' / 'Bad Berleburg'
0,1
205,0
 left   leaving B480; signs 'Kirchhundem' / 'Aue' / 'Berghausen'
7,8
212,8
   Aue signs Kirchhundem' / 'Oberhundem' / 'Erndtebrück'
5,5
218,3
 left Röspe signs 'Siegen' / 'Erndtebrück'
4,9
223,2
 right   B 62; signs 'Siegen' / 'Kreuztal'
1,1
224,3
   Erndtebrück signs 'Siegen' / 'Netphen' / 'Kreuztal'
9,8
234,1
 right   B 508; signs 'Olpe' / 'Kreuztal' / 'Hilchenbach'
6,6
240,7
 right Hilchenbach leaving B508; signs 'Kirchhundem' / 'Brachthausen' / 'Helberhausen'
0,1
240,8
 right Hilchenbach signs 'Würdinghausen' / 'Oberndorf'
9,0
249,8
 finish Heinsberg Hotel Schwermer

 
 
Dist. Total Dist. Dir. Location Description or other gravel roads
0,0 0,0 start Hesborn signs 'Dreislar'
3,1 3,1 left   beginning of  gravel road
0,9 4,0 fork right   other road fork left side
0,5 4,5 straight on   from right side
0,2 4,7 straight on   from right side
0,5 5,2 fork left   from right side
0,2 5,4 right   from left side
0,3 5,7 straight on   from left side
0,4 6,1 left backwards   straight on
0,7 6,8 straight on   from right side
0,8 7,6 left   straight on and from right side
0,2 7,8 right   from left side
0,3 8,1 left   reaching main road again; end of gravel
1,5 9,6 left Dreislar signs 'Medelon'
3,0 12,6 right Medelon follow main roadbook again; signs 'Medebach'

Collected, written and driven by Thomas Müller.
Gravel roads found and driven by Transalpfreunde Deutschland. Thanks a lot.