The best walks and hikes around Vilseck

Unfortunately already closed for a long time, is for sale

Bench with a beautiful view at the edge of the forest

Great place to have a coffee, or just to enjoy.

Beautiful view of the floodplain landscape. Great place to take a break on the tower.

nice descent

Vilsecker Mulde nature reserve The Vilsecker Mulde is a nature reserve on the upper reaches of the Vils. Hackelweiher, Großer Schleierweiher, Großer Sollerweiher or Wagenweiher are some of the wet meadows that the Bund Naturschutz has been maintaining in the Vilsecker Mulde for many years. The names indicate a former use as a fish pond. In the Middle Ages there was an extensive pond landscape in the Vilsecker Mulde. For several generations there have also been wet meadows, alder and birch swamp forests, tall herb meadows, buckthorn bushes and pine forests between Vilseck and Freihung. The wet meadows in the Vilsecker Mulde in particular are home to a large number of endangered species. The association "Der BUND-Naturschutz" district group Amberg-Sulzbach takes care of animals such as the dock green scurry, the spotted darter, the western damsel damsel, the marsh grasshopper, the marsh cricket, the large gold cricket, the tree frog or the corncrake with farmers about the correct management of the land. Above all, this means mowing as late as possible and avoiding fertilization and plant protection. In addition to mowing and the right technology, the water balance is playing an increasingly important role. An attempt is made to keep the water in the area so that it can be drained away. The drainage ditches should therefore be managed in such a way that they are drained in coordination with professional nature conservation. The Vilsniederung lies in the natural area of the "Upper Palatinate hill country" in the natural subunit of the "Vilsecker Kreidemulde". Due to the close "interlocking" with other ecologically significant areas of life in the Vilsecker Mulde, the areas represent an ideal component in the sense of a biotope network. The meadows are mowed annually to prevent bush encroachment and to maintain them as a species-rich meadow. Plants such as the marsh bloodeye, the burning buttercup, the small rattle or the saxifrage are striking in the meadows in spring. Many different species from the sedge families (a plant genus from the sedge family), rushes and grasses also find a home. Source: Bund Naturschutz – Amberg-Sulzbach district group

the vils The Vils rises in Kleinschönbrunn in the market town of Freihung in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. On its first five kilometers, it initially flows north-northeast towards Freihung. At the south-west edge of the town, it turns abruptly to the west and crosses the densely wooded landscape with the Forstlohe in the south and the Grafenwöhr military training area in the north, crossing into the district of Vilseck. There it turns south-southeast and then flows through the districts of the market town of Hahnbach and the municipality of Poppenricht. Then, on its middle course, it crosses the independent city of Amberg, the largest town on its banks. In a constant direction, it runs through the districts and main towns of the municipalities of Kümmersbruck and Ensdorf. When it enters the area of Markt Rieden, it continues to flow approximately to the south and then, in the following Markt Schmidmühlen, from the right takes in the Lauterach, which is almost 35 kilometers long and by far its longest tributary. On the rest of the lower course, the Hohenfels military training area in the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz borders on the right, which is briefly opposite the urban district of Burglengenfeld in the district of Schwandorf. It then flows into the lower Naab after about 87 kilometers at the market town of Kallmünz in the district of Regensburg. Source: excerpts from Wikipedia

Idyllically situated in a valley between Hahnbach and Großschönbrunn