Discover Lehre

Who in Lehrte knows all the sights and unique features of the city and its neighborhoods? The city marketing working group “Experience City & Nature” (AK), in collaboration with local historians from the neighborhoods, has put together 16 tours that allow visitors to explore the city of Lehrte and its neighborhoods.

Here You can learn more in advance about the 16 tours and seven other QR projects organized by the working group. Topics include the medicinal herb garden, the orchard meadow, and tours such as “Discovering Lehrte and Its Neighborhoods” or the city’s and neighborhoods’ points of interest. The tours can be taken on foot, by bike, or by car.

Information about QR codes

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You can start the tours using Komoot on your smartphone, or download them directly to your own GPS device as a GPX file. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can download them as PDF files and print them out. Along the way, you can use QR codes at various stops to access information about buildings, monuments, churches, the Stolpersteine, as well as individual plants in the medicinal herb garden, the agricultural crops nature trail, and the trees in the orchard meadow. The districts of Ahlten, Aligse, Arpke, Hämelerwald, Immensen, Kolshorn, Röddensen, Sievershausen, and Steinwedel are best explored by bicycle.

Examples of themed tours

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The “Waterways in and around Lehrte” tour is a nature bike ride for the whole family—with plenty of lovely spots to stop and relax. By incorporating several train stations, the approximately 60-kilometer tour can also be completed in individual stages. “On the Trail of the Storks” is an approximately 20-kilometer tour to the stork nests in Sievershausen, Arpke, Immensen, Steinwedel, and Lehrte.

Since additional tour information can always be added, the organizing committee would appreciate any information or updates sent to the following email address.

If you're interested in these tours, have any questions, or would like to help out with the working group, please contact us at this email address.