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Landkreis Bad Kreuznach
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Hergenfeld

Wilhelmsbrücke with Towers – View of Gutenberg Castle Ruins loop from Hergenfeld

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Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Landkreis Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach
Hergenfeld

Wilhelmsbrücke with Towers – View of Gutenberg Castle Ruins loop from Hergenfeld

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4.7

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135

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Wilhelmsbrücke with Towers – View of Gutenberg Castle Ruins loop from Hergenfeld

01:59

31.8km

300m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 17, 2026

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Naturpark Soonwald-Nahe

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5.90 km

Guldenbach Cycle Path and Felseneremitage Bretzenheim

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Since 2019. Super developed. Passes directly to the Felseneremitage.

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13.6 km

Bretzenheim — Wine Village

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Very idyllic wine village with grapevines that entwine themselves over the small alleys. Of course, there are other highlights to discover here.

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17.9 km

Geschichte:
•200 vor Christus siedeln sich die Kelten an. In den Wäldern beiderseits der Nahe finden sich auf den Höhen Reste von keltischen Ringwällen.
•Um Christi Geburt bis zum 4. Jahrhundert gehört „Cruciniacum” zum römischen Reich.
•234 entsteht in einer prachtvollen Villa im heutigen Schloßpark das Oceanusmosaik – einer der bemerkenswertesten Mosaikböden.
•4. Jahrhundert: im Zuge der Germanenstürme legen die Römer ein Kastell im Bereich des heutigen Schulzentrums Römerkastell an, die sog. Heidenmauer.
•Zwischen dem 6. und 8. Jahrhundert, in fränkischer Zeit, wird das Römerkastell in eine Königspfalz umgewandelt. König Ludwig der Fromme hält sich gelegentlich hier auf.
•Ab dem 12. Jahrhundert verlagert sich der Stadtkern in die heutige Innenstadt, Altstadt (östlich der Nahe) und Neustadt (westlich der Nahe) entstehen.
•Vom 13. bis 15. Jahrhundert sind die Grafen von Sponheim die Stadtherren.
•1206: Bau der Kauzenburg in der Neustadt.
•Um 1250 entstehen eine Kapelle und später die Nikolauskirche als Teil eines Karmeliterklosters.
•1300: Bau der steinernen Pfeilerbrücken über die beiden Nahearme.
•1311 bis 1332: Bau der Pauluskirche auf der Insel an der Nahebrücke.
•Im 15. Jahrhundert stirbt das Geschlecht der Grafen von Sponheim aus. Die Pfalzgrafen, die Markgrafen von Baden und die Grafen von Velden teilen sich von nun an die Stadtherrschaft.
•1618 bis 1648: Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg erobern und besetzen Spanier und Schweden die Stadt. Die Bevölkerung schrumpft auf ein Drittel.
•1689 zerstören französische Soldaten Ludwigs XIV. Neustadt, Kauzenburg und Pauluskirche.
•ab 1723 Bau der Salinen und Beginn der Salzerzeugung in Bad Münster am Stein und im Salinental das 1898 zur Stadt Bad Kreuznach gehört.
•Von 1798 bis 1814 gehört Kreuznach zu Frankreich.
•Von 1815 bis 1945 gehört die Stadt zum Königreich Preußen.
•Ab 1817 steigt die Stadt dank der Badekuren mit Salzquellen zum internationalen Kurort auf.
•1846: Bau des ersten Kurhauses und Entstehung des Kurviertels mit vielen Kurhäusern.
•1859: Bau der Rhein-Nahe-Eisenbahn.
•1871: Eröffnung der Alsenzbahnlinie: Bingen - Kaiserslautern
•Im 19. Jahrhundert entwickelt sich Kreuznach gleichzeitig zur Kurstadt und zum Gewerbezentrum. Aus dem Fischerdorf Bad Münster am Stein wird dank der Salinen gleichfalls ab 1850 ein internationales Heilbad.
Quelle:
bad-kreuznach-tourist.de/sehenswuerdigkeiten/geschichte-von-bad-kreuznach

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18.3 km

Wilhelmsbrücke with Towers

Highlight • Bridge

The Wilhelmsbrücke with Fischerturm completed in 1904. The far above
sculptor Ludwig Cauer, who is well-known outside the city limits, created the tower relief,
reminiscent of the local fishermen living in this part of town.
Source: bad-kreuznach-tourist.de/fileadmin/media/downloads/WandernKurenbeschreibung.pdf

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18.8 km

You should definitely make a stop here, a very nice corner in Bad Kreuznach

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18.9 km

Historic Old Town, Bad Kreuznach

Highlight • Historical Site

Old new town or historic old town? There can be confusion if you are not from Bad Kreuznach. In Bad Kreuznach, however, one thing is clear: the new town is the old town, i.e. the historical center of Bad Kreuznach.
This oddity is historical. Originally there were two settlements on the left and right of the Nahe, which were repeatedly devastated by armed conflicts. At the beginning of the 13th century, Count Gottfried von Sponheim had the Kauzenburg built above the north bank of the Nahe. The construction of a new city began, the "Neustadt".
It covers the area between the Alter Nahebrücke and Hofgartenstraße as well as between the palace gardens and the Stadthaus. It is characterized by its marketplaces, romantic half-timbered houses, narrow streets and striking monuments.
Again and again there was and is a dispute about the name: "Neustadt" in the sense of the proper name or "Altstadt" in today's sense of a city function. In April 2013, the Bad Kreuznach City Council officially put an end to the discussions by deciding to name it "Kreuznacher Neustadt - Historischer Stadtkern".

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26.2 km

Burg Gutenburg Ruins

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The castle was first mentioned in 1213 as "castro Weitersheim". In 1334 the Counts of Sponheim (Vordere Grafschaft) bought the castle, which has meanwhile been renamed Gutenburg. After this purchase, a fundamental conversion took place.

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26.9 km

View of Gutenberg Castle Ruins

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The castle was first mentioned in 1213 as "castro Weitersheim". In 1334, the Counts of Sponheim (Front County) bought the castle, which has since been renamed Gutenburg. After this purchase, a fundamental reconstruction took place. After the extinction of the Sponheimers (Kreuzenacher line † 1414, Starkenburg line † 1437), the castle reached the front-native locals (mainly Margraviate Baden and Electoral Palatinate). The castle has lost its importance over time, was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War and fell into ruin. In the view in the thesaurus philopoliticus by Daniel Meisner, it is already depicted as a ruin. The ruin is now privately owned.

The castle complex had a core castle that was completely surrounded by a ring kennel, protected by a ring wall with towers and a neck trench. The ruin still shows clear wall remnants today.

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31.8 km

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7.89 km

7.31 km

5.52 km

867 m

501 m

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25.9 km

4.35 km

1.01 km

219 m

194 m

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