Martinsheim Village – Bench With View of Martinsheim loop from Martinsheim
Martinsheim Village – Bench With View of Martinsheim loop from Martinsheim
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Martinsheim Village – Bench With View of Martinsheim loop from Martinsheim
01:16
4.81km
40m
Hiking
Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: April 16, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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111 m
Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
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Playground by the Church
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587 m
Martinsheim Village
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The area of today's Martinsheim seems to have been settled 3000 years ago in the Neolithic Age. This is evidenced by the discovery of a stone ax from the Neolithic period.
The town is named after Saint Martin, one of the most important saints for Franconia and patron of the no longer existing Martin chapel outside the village.
From 1448 to 1791, Martinsheim was one of the six main villages (Marktsteft, Obernbreit, Martinsheim, Gnodstadt, Oberickelsheim, Sickershausen), which were closely linked economically. In 1528 the evangelical confession was accepted in Martinsheim. In March 1636, during the Thirty Years' War, a major fire destroyed 40 farms, the church, the town hall, the school building and the vicarage. The cause was glowing coals that a girl had lost in the churchyard. That is why only a few documents exist from the time before the war. The church was rebuilt in the years 1667-1677.
In the Treaty of Paris (February 1806), Martinsheim fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in an exchange with the Principality of Ansbach, which had become Prussian in 1792 and which was part of the Franconian Empire from 1500. In the course of administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality came into being with the municipal edict of 1818.
The village with the name "Mercenesheim", first mentioned in Würzburg sources in the 9th century, probably goes back to a local founder Merceno from the Merovingian period rather than to a Martinskirche on the eastern outskirts of the village, which Weigel sees as the ancestor. The first written mention in the traditional note of the noble Walah to the Diocese of Würzburg has no date, but it can be dated to the years 815 to 835 AD based on the witnesses.
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Bench With View of Martinsheim
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4.81 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
3.94 km
598 m
267 m
Surfaces
2.42 km
1.91 km
483 m
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