Steinheim, former furniture stronghold, now Fairtrade Town and Germany's first city with a common good balance sheet.
Steinheim is a feel-good town with a furniture museum and a teddy and doll museum. Cyclists will also find a bed for the night here. To the west of the Eggegebirge mountains and east of the Weserbergland, the renaturalized rivers Heubach and Emmer meander through the Steinheim basin. Coming from the west, the R1 European Cycle Route passes through the Steinheim villages of Sandebeck, Vinsebeck and Eichholz before leaving Steinheim again in the direction of Nieheim.
In Vinsebeck, a newly built village and rest area, located directly on the Heubach, near Vinsebeck Castle, invites cyclists to linger and relax. Here there are various benches and relaxation loungers, native forest plants and herbs that invite cyclists to recharge their batteries with their fragrance. A herb garden with honeycomb-shaped raised beds forms the center of the rest area. Smelling and tasting is of course allowed.
The baroque moated castle of Vinsebeck is always worth a detour. It stands on a square island surrounded by a 17-meter-wide, water-filled moat. The interior of the Italian Room, the Driburg Room, the Green Room, the Moor Room and the Chinese Room has been largely preserved. The stucco work and the linen wallpaper painted all over the rooms are well worth seeing. A viewing appointment can be arranged if you are interested.
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