Cycling Summer of Industrial Heritage – Industrial heritage meets cycling fun in Recklinghausen
On June 14 and 15, 2025, the Ruhr Regional Association and the Museum Zeitreise Strom invite you to the Bicycle Summer of Industrial Heritage at the Recklinghausen substation. The occasion is the 25th anniversary of the popular Museum Zeitreise Strom, which will be celebrated with a varied program.
The event combines tried-and-tested elements: discovering industrial heritage and experiencing cycling. A "mile" of industrial heritage with a tented roof landscape invites you to browse – featuring the Route Industrial Heritage, networks from North Rhine-Westphalia, and numerous tourist information centers. Among other things, the most beautiful cycling routes along the Route Industrial Heritage and the radrevier.ruhr will be presented.
Families and children can look forward to a varied entertainment program centered around cycling, while the substation itself is intensively integrated into the program with tours, activities for children and other highlights.
The Bicycle Summer will be part of the Recklinghausen Harbor Festival in 2025, creating a unique atmosphere with walk-through acts, railing banners, and an atmospheric connection between the harbor and the substation. Catering options in the harbor area and the café in the substation will provide refreshments.
Look forward to a weekend full of industrial culture, cycling fun, and family experiences in Recklinghausen!
Cycling Summer – Program:
We're turning the entire Umspannwerk into a summer stage: with ideas all about cycling, strong exhibitors on bicycle and bicycle industrial culture, bike shows, and exciting walking acts.
- Entertainment at and in the substation - Recklinghausen
- Special exhibition German Bicycle Museum
- Presentation of the Industrial Heritage Route
- Guided walks to Emscherkunstweg projects
- Tours of the nearby Roland Mills United plant
- Participation activities and offers for children and families
- Museum experience at the Recklinghausen substation – Museum Time Travel Electricity Information and tips about cycling in the region
- Music, culinary delights and entertainment at the harbor festival at the neighboring city harbor of Recklinghausen
- Route by bike Experience history actively and discover the most exciting testimonies of industrial culture in the Ruhr area over a distance of over 400 km.
- Tours of the mill by Roland Mills United
Take a guided tour of the Roland Mills United mill and gain exciting insights into grain processing techniques.
(Registration takes place at the Route Industriekultur stand. The number of participants is limited to maximum 20 people per tour limited. Meeting point and start of the tour is at the stage.)
Schedule for Saturday, June 14, 2025:
12:00 Welcome at the Bicycle Summer at the substation
12:15 Tour of the mill by Roland Mills United*
12:20 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
12:45 Stilt walker: The inventor with his wife
13:00 Presentation & guided walk to the Emscherkunstwerke
13:15 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
13:30 Musical program on stage
14:00 Tour of the mill by Roland Mills United*
14:15 Stilt walker: The inventor with his wife
15:00 Presentation & guided walk to the Emscherkunstwerke
15:15 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
15:30 Musical program on stage
16:00 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
16:15 Stilt walker: The inventor with his wife
16:30 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
16:45 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
17:30 Musical program on stage
18:30 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
18:40 Drawing of the winners of our raffle
18:50 Farewell
Schedule for Sunday, June 15, 2025:
12:00 Welcome at the Bicycle Summer at the substation
12:15 Introduction & tour of the mill by Roland Mills United*
12:30 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
12:45 Stilt walker: The inventor with his wife
13:00 Presentation & guided walk to the Emscherkunstwerke
13:15 Musical program on stage
13:45 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
14:00 Introduction & tour of the mill by Roland Mills United*
14:15 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
14:30 Stilt walker: The inventor with his wife
14:45 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
15:00 Presentation & guided walk to the Emscherkunstwerke
15:15 Musical program on stage
15:45 p.m. Insight into the Industrial Heritage Route
16:00 Stilt walker: The inventor with his wife
16:15 Musical program on stage
16:45 Drawing of the winners of our raffle
16:55 Farewell
*Registration required (see above)
Tours of the mill by Roland Mills United
Take a guided tour of the Roland Mills United mill and gain exciting insights into grain processing techniques.
Registration takes place at the Route Industriekultur stand.
The number of participants is maximum 20 people per tour limited.
The meeting point and start of the tour is at the stage.
Photo: RVR / Louisa Stickelbruck
Bicycle tours 2025
By the way: We're offering guided bike tours along the route again this year! Two professionally guided tours are now available for booking. On the approximately 6-hour tours, you'll cycle past various locations along the route and receive information about the locations along the way.
