Active in sports
The Eder Uplands and the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park and its lush nature transform sport into a unique landscape experience. Ask us and we will show you the most beautiful spots.
Sports facilities at DIE SONNE
Active and vital
If you like sports, you will love DIE SONNE. We have almost endless possibilities available: Extensive tours with a mountain, trekking, or racing bike, diving to explore a sunken village, galloping on horseback through meadows full of wild flowers, “discovering” the area on a Segway, getting back into shape with a personal fitness coach, exploring kitted out with GPS equipment and a picnic backpack…
The Eder Uplands and the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park and its lush nature transform sport into a unique landscape experience. Ask us and we will show you the most beautiful spots.
Hiking at DIE SONNE – Extra tours, Burgwald Edersee
Hiking between the sky and the Eder … extensive and silent forest elevations and idyllic flood plains invite you to take part in various hikes.
Far away from crowds of tourists and the hustle and bustle of everyday life, you get to discover the Eder Uplands on beautiful top-quality hiking trails.
Golfing at DIE SONNE
Die Sonne is situated right in the middle of a small paradise for golfers: Marburg/Cölbe, Waldeck and Winterberg golf courses offer numerous gradients and natural water courses. Perfect conditions for a varied and exciting game – including a fantastic view. With their different skill levels, the courses offer you perfect conditions for improving your style.
All the courses at a glance
SONNE biking tips
A wide range of cycle paths take cyclists to the picturesque valleys of the Eder, Lahn, Ohm…
Skiing, alpine skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing and tobogganing
Enjoy the snowy fairy-tale landscape of Northern Hessen while skiing or tobogganing, or on a cross-country ski run or while walking the winter hiking trails
Water sports
The area around DIE SONNE on the Eder and the Edersee
Let the wind blow in your face on the Edersee. Excellent sailing awaits you on a lake where the World Championship for the Masters has already been held. The panorama of the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park offers a great view. Freely accessible bays invite you to go for a swim and have a picnic. An experienced skipper accompanies you on the trip. You can also go sailing without a skipper if you have a sailing license. In inclement weather, the more ambitious sailor can look forward to a sporting trip. And if tranquillity is more your style, you will certainly get your money’s worth when you go sailing on an elegant electric yacht.
Sailing, boating and boating trips
The Edersee offers a variety of water sports activities over a length of 27 km with excellent water quality. The wind and weather conditions make it an ideal spot to learn any type of water sports, including surfing, sailing, and water skiing. The Edersee also offers sporting challenges for the ambitious water sports enthusiast throughout the year.
- Edership boat rental, Edersee
- Sailing school, Edersee
- Rehbach Edersee sailing school and boat rental
- Passenger boats on the Edersee
Fishing
Excellent fishing opportunities are available for the sporting angler on the Edersee and Affoldern lake.
Canoeing
The Eder – our home river – is referred to as the “jewel of Hessen’s rivers”.
It is the fastest, cleanest, and the most natural river of its size in the Hessen region and takes 1 to 3 days to travel. Experience unspoilt nature from a new perspective.
Surfing, wind surfing, water skiing and stand-up paddling
Learn the high art of surfing, windsurfing, and water skiing in one of Germany’s most beautiful recreational areas.
Diving
The Edersee, with its dam and Waldeck Castle towering over it, has been a well-known symbol of the Waldeck and Eder Uplands holiday region since long. The underwater world of the Edersee is an experience of a very special kind, especially for divers. The water level and visibility in the Edersee are usually very well suited to diving in the summer months.