old town secrets Anabaptist cages, a mummified hand and a clock that runs backwards — the dark and curious corners of the old town. 2.7 KM · 32 MIN · 14 STATIONS → once round: the ring 4.5 kilometres of car-free lime-tree ring on the old city wall — with fountains, the Zwinger and a stretch of the old moat. 5.4 KM · 65 MIN · 9 STATIONS → harbour & canal From Germany's biggest bike garage via the Kreativkai to the graffiti wall at Hawerkamp — Münster's rough side. 4.8 KM · 58 MIN · 5 STATIONS → aasee & sentrup Concrete balls with a scandalous past, a jetty that is art and the hidden botanical garden behind the Schloss. 8.8 KM · 79 MIN · 7 STATIONS → a round in the kuhviertel Four old inns, a ragout with a name of its own and the Fischbrathalle — right across the Kuhviertel and the old town. 1.6 KM · 19 MIN · 8 STATIONS → art by the wayside Rotating squares, a silver frequency on a museum façade and three will-o'-the-wisps in the Anabaptist cages — art you'd normally walk straight past. 1.8 KM · 22 MIN · 5 STATIONS → the west bank Kabakov's poem antenna, Judd's concrete rings, a bakehouse from 1749 and the world's largest ammonite — west along the Aasee. 3.6 KM · 44 MIN · 7 STATIONS → schloss & science A citadel under the Schlossgarten, Hittorf's original X-ray tube and a convent that became a clinic — the loop west of the Promenade. 2.9 KM · 35 MIN · 7 STATIONS → the quiet north From the Kreuzviertel past a brewery among offices to the coffee house in Wienburgpark — the side of the city with nothing to prove. 3.5 KM · 42 MIN · 5 STATIONS → what happened here The red-hot tongs of 1536, the synagogue burnt down in 1938 and rebuilt on the same spot, the grave of the Lion of Münster — and a house that stayed squatted for eight years and won. 2.3 KM · 27 MIN · 7 STATIONS → the uni quarter A school since 797, a baker who became a street name, Frege's burnt manuscripts and a university that dropped its Kaiser after 116 years. 2.2 KM · 26 MIN · 6 STATIONS → gievenbeck & research A British town within the town, the natural monument with the loveliest name in Münster, the battery lab of the day after tomorrow and a Nobel Prize the Gestapo banned. 5.1 KM · 61 MIN · 6 STATIONS → promenade & south bank A solar boat across the Aasee, the secret language of the old poor quarters, up to 900 flea-market stalls and a showpiece tower whose house vanished in 1944. 3.3 KM · 38 MIN · 7 STATIONS → harbour & the east Organic cheese behind glass at the Mittelhafen, one of Germany's oldest private theatres in a warehouse, an 11th-century collegiate church and a memorial site where the Holocaust was administered. 5.0 KM · 60 MIN · 5 STATIONS → ten thousand steps Seven kilometres for about ten thousand steps: from the campus through the Kreuzviertel and Kuhviertel to the Domplatz, then Aasee, Schloss and Schlossgarten. 7.0 KM · 93 MIN · 10 STATIONS →

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the lyrikweg The poet's path: from Burg Hülshoff to Haus Rüschhaus, which Annette von Droste-Hülshoff walked a hundred times — 21 stations between meadows and rest areas. 11.0 KM · 147 MIN · 5 STATIONS →

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to the rieselfelder By bike from the main station via the Promenade and Wienburgpark into the Rieselfelder, then through Gimbte and the Bockholter Berge — a good 30 kilometres. BIKE RIDE · 31.2 KM · ~2 H · 8 STATIONS →

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the droste loop By bike through the west: Haus Rüschhaus and Burg Hülshoff, the places Droste lived — and back past the Mühlenhof, the Aasee and along the Promenade. BIKE RIDE · 28.0 KM · ~2 H · 8 STATIONS →

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places of great stories From Schloss Münster to Burg Hülshoff and Haus Rüschhaus: 35 kilometres through parkland, past Häger and the work of the master builder Schlaun. BIKE RIDE · 35.0 KM · ~2.5 H · 6 STATIONS →

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