Forest-water-wool-way

Radevormwald has belonged to the County of Berg since 1380 and was already a significant metropolis of cloth making in its early years. The entire tour (20.5 km) is marked by the hiking trail sign "Ra" and starts at the town hall parking lot in the center of Radevormwald. You cross the historic marketplace and reach Espert through the romantic Wiebachtal. Walking through old mixed forest areas on the Wupperweg - marked by a diamond with the number 6 - you will pass through the villages of Berg and Heidersteg before reaching the banks of the Wupper dam, passing lush wet meadows where the still elusive heron eagerly looks for newts, grass frogs, or the harmless rare grass snake. Soon you arrive in Krebsöge, which was divided into two parts by the construction of a dam, with the southern part submerged in the waters of the reservoir. Along the banks of the Wupper and on the Bergische Nature and Museum Route "Straße der Arbeit", the path leads through Wilhelmstal past the former cloth factory, through the forest to Dahlhausen with its museum train station, and to Vogelsmühle, where former workers' apartments and buildings of a former cloth factory bear witness to the heyday of the local textile industry. More awaits at the next bend in the river in Dahlerau at the Wülfing Cloth Museum. Afterwards, you climb up to Obergrunewald and Herkingrade with its restaurant "Zur schönen Aussicht". Across hilly terrain, past the Uelfe swimming pool, Germany's smallest reservoir, and past the Rococo garden house from 1772, you now approach the town center of Radevormwald. Directly opposite the town hall is the local history museum, showcasing the city's history.