Soltau: Recreation, Culture and Green Spaces

Soltau combines recreational activities with culture and a green park. When planning your trip, you can focus on your group’s interests: roller coasters, attractions for younger children, hands-on activities centered on felt, or a museum visit each offer a different experience. You can also plan your journey by train, car or public transport.

Recreation and Culture in Soltau

At Heide Park Resort in Soltau, the roller coasters known as the “Big 7” are among the attractions. Colossos, Krake and Scream are among the coasters named. If roller coasters are the main focus of your visit, they offer a specific starting point for planning your activities. Since attraction details may change, check the operator’s latest information before your visit.

Peppa Pig Land, also located at Heide Park Resort, has rides and attractions for younger children. While the Big 7 put roller coasters at the center, Peppa Pig Land is geared towards younger visitors. Soltau Therme offers a different focus: it has a separate children’s area with play opportunities in the “Enchanted Forest.” You can therefore consider rides and attractions on the one hand, and a dedicated play area on the other, as different interests when planning. If these offerings are important to your travel decision, check the operators’ latest information in advance.

At felto Filzwelt Soltau, you can explore felt in a playful and experimental way across five floors. The activities listed include model machines, a walk-in typesetting case and making felt yourself. These different ways of engaging make a visit more than a display of finished felt pieces: you can also explore the machines and create something yourself. This gives felto a different cultural focus from the rides and attractions on offer.

The dollhouse “Dingley Hall” is on display at the Spielmuseum Soltau. It is three metres wide and two metres high. Its specific dimensions give the exhibit a distinctive place among the city’s cultural attractions mentioned here. If you are interested in toys and individual museum exhibits, you can include this visit as a separate part of your cultural itinerary in Soltau.

Breidings Garten adds an 11-hectare park to this selection. It is a few hundred metres from Soltau city centre and was laid out from 1850 onwards by the industrialist Röders family. The park’s size and history give it a different character from the recreational and museum attractions. Its proximity to the city centre is also a specific point of reference if you want to include different aspects of Soltau in your plans.

Getting There and the Regional Setting

Soltau has a railway station, so it is possible to travel there by train. The town is also connected to the A7 motorway and public transport, making it accessible by car and public transport. You therefore have different transport options to choose from for your journey. If you are travelling by train or public transport, check the connections for your travel date before planning your stay.

Beyond Soltau, the Heidekreis is a distinct regional setting. It has miles of signposted routes for cycling, hiking, Nordic walking and horse riding. One notable landscape feature is Wilseder Berg: at 169 metres, it is the highest elevation in the North German Plain. The area around it is almost car-free. Cars can only use access roads leading to car parks in the towns around the nature reserve; otherwise, people get around on foot or by bicycle. This makes the mobility conditions around Wilseder Berg different from those for travelling to Soltau. If you include other places in the Heidekreis, plan how to reach and get around each place separately.

Discover more destinations: Siedlung Am Krummen Winkel, Wolterdingen, Walsrode, Oerrel, Behringen, Kirchboitzen, Bad Fallingbostel, Frankenfeld.

For the regional travel overview: Heidekreis.