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Mainradweg Near Flörsheim – Panorama Trail Wicker–Weilbach loop from Raunheim
RoutesBike touring routes & trailsGermanyHesseMain-Taunus-KreisFlörsheim
Mainradweg Near Flörsheim – Panorama Trail Wicker–Weilbach loop from Raunheim
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Mainradweg Near Flörsheim – Panorama Trail Wicker–Weilbach loop from Raunheim
01:20
19.8km
90m
Cycling
Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 24, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 7.92 km for 155 m
Waypoints
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Start point
Bus stop
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2.21 km
Mainradweg Near Flörsheim
Highlight • Cycleway
Very nice and above all very good to ride bike path
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3.14 km
Embankment Path Between Flörsheim and Eddersheim
Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway
Great bike ride with the Main at the side.
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3
7.09 km
Weilbacher Gravel Pits Observation Tower
Highlight • Viewpoint
Nice to walk, great for families with children up to about 12 years,
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7.59 km
Weilbacher Kiesgruben Gravel Paths
Highlight • Trail
Interesting view of the poet's house, you feel transported to Tuscany.
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8.05 km
Poet's House
Highlight • Monument
The "Poet's House" is one of the most playful landscape artworks in the Rhine-Main Regional Park. But: Anyone who approaches this project, ostensibly dedicated to Goethe, nestled in a tall ginkgo grove, will find profound insights on many levels—how could it be otherwise, given that it is a symbol of poetry rendered in stone?
A house without exterior walls, a (writing) pen like a weathervane in the wind, inscribed metal plates like windblown leaves, a former gravel pit transformed into a landfill and now overgrown with greenery: Many associations immediately spring to mind. Thoughts on the ephemeral nature of art, perhaps, especially poetry. The ever-open, yet also vulnerable house, perched alone high on a hill. Below it, the deep, transformative foundation. Interpreters will find great joy here—but one can also simply sit on the roughly twelve-meter-high mound without any ulterior motives, enjoying the view and the gentle summer breeze.
Summer? Yes, because this place tastes like a summer's day. It has something cheerful and serene about it. And that would certainly have pleased the driving force behind the place immensely. While the house, with its cruciform central wall and eleven-meter-diameter roof, is dedicated to all poets, it is dedicated to the great Goethe even more so. And not only because of its proximity to his birthplace, Frankfurt, but also because one of his many journeys took him to the Flörsheim region in 1814. His journey was to the Rhine, Main, and Neckar rivers—rivers that, at that time, were the object of the young Romantics' hearts—true places of longing. And Goethe? He was inspired to write his most famous cycle of poems, the West-Eastern Divan. This also includes the famous poem about the ginkgo tree. It deals with the distinctive shape of its leaf, which is so symbolically divided. Anyone who wants to know what the inspiring tree looks like only needs to go to the house with the "book walls": A ginkgo grove has been planted around it.
A house without exterior walls, a (writing) pen like a weathervane in the wind, inscribed metal plates like windblown leaves, a former gravel pit transformed into a landfill and now overgrown with greenery: Many associations immediately spring to mind. Thoughts on the ephemeral nature of art, perhaps, especially poetry. The ever-open, yet also vulnerable house, perched alone high on a hill. Below it, the deep, transformative foundation. Interpreters will find great joy here—but one can also simply sit on the roughly twelve-meter-high mound without any ulterior motives, enjoying the view and the gentle summer breeze.
Summer? Yes, because this place tastes like a summer's day. It has something cheerful and serene about it. And that would certainly have pleased the driving force behind the place immensely. While the house, with its cruciform central wall and eleven-meter-diameter roof, is dedicated to all poets, it is dedicated to the great Goethe even more so. And not only because of its proximity to his birthplace, Frankfurt, but also because one of his many journeys took him to the Flörsheim region in 1814. His journey was to the Rhine, Main, and Neckar rivers—rivers that, at that time, were the object of the young Romantics' hearts—true places of longing. And Goethe? He was inspired to write his most famous cycle of poems, the West-Eastern Divan. This also includes the famous poem about the ginkgo tree. It deals with the distinctive shape of its leaf, which is so symbolically divided. Anyone who wants to know what the inspiring tree looks like only needs to go to the house with the "book walls": A ginkgo grove has been planted around it.
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11.1 km
Panorama Trail Wicker–Weilbach
Highlight • Trail
The sculpture "The Circle" opens to the east, towards the light. Sculptor Thomas Link defines this direction by the axis from the sound stele in the center of the circle to the pair of steles outside. These cast long shadows, with a bright line at their center. The sound stele opposite opens to the wind, transforming the moving air into sound.
The panoramic trail is part of the regional park's circular route and connects the Bad Weilbach park with the wine village of Wicker over a distance of almost 1.5 kilometers. On clear days, the view extends as far as the Odenwald forest. In the Middle Ages, the "Kasteler Landwehr," the border and defensive fortification protecting the territory of the Electorate of Mainz, ran along this route.
In the summer of 1998, five artists created five large stone sculptures along the panoramic trail. The regional park society invited not only Thomas Link from Issing near Munich, who created the circle of stones from basalt, to this plein air sculpture symposium. Hubert Maier, Gerard Höweler, Georg Hüter, and Ingrid Hornef also used the six-week project period to create charismatic works.
The goal of the international open-air artists' workshop was not only to enhance the inspiring surroundings with monumental objects. The public also had the opportunity to engage in conversation with the artists during the creative process. This participation and understanding of the artists' thoughts during the creation of the objects ensured the project's great success.
Link, for example, explains: "What the eye sees in the surroundings—the movement of grasses and leaves—is simultaneously experienced by the viewer as a sound that swells and recedes with the breath of the wind." The spheres rest around a central point. They bear semi-circular depressions, whose positions indicate directions in space. "This sphere is dedicated to the earth, to the interplay of darkness and incoming light." Each sphere is part of the whole and yet stands alone. Beyond this, the view extends into the landscape, changing from place to place in a circular pattern. “The stones rest, gathered around the center,” they point to direction and space: “Into this structure, humankind enters and finds its place.”
None of the stones, not even those of the other artists, are placed by chance along the path. All reflect the landscape in which and for which they were created. It is about knowledge and feeling, about culture and nature, about noise (including aircraft noise) and silence, about the hustle and bustle of life and about finding peace.
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The panoramic trail is part of the regional park's circular route and connects the Bad Weilbach park with the wine village of Wicker over a distance of almost 1.5 kilometers. On clear days, the view extends as far as the Odenwald forest. In the Middle Ages, the "Kasteler Landwehr," the border and defensive fortification protecting the territory of the Electorate of Mainz, ran along this route.
In the summer of 1998, five artists created five large stone sculptures along the panoramic trail. The regional park society invited not only Thomas Link from Issing near Munich, who created the circle of stones from basalt, to this plein air sculpture symposium. Hubert Maier, Gerard Höweler, Georg Hüter, and Ingrid Hornef also used the six-week project period to create charismatic works.
The goal of the international open-air artists' workshop was not only to enhance the inspiring surroundings with monumental objects. The public also had the opportunity to engage in conversation with the artists during the creative process. This participation and understanding of the artists' thoughts during the creation of the objects ensured the project's great success.
Link, for example, explains: "What the eye sees in the surroundings—the movement of grasses and leaves—is simultaneously experienced by the viewer as a sound that swells and recedes with the breath of the wind." The spheres rest around a central point. They bear semi-circular depressions, whose positions indicate directions in space. "This sphere is dedicated to the earth, to the interplay of darkness and incoming light." Each sphere is part of the whole and yet stands alone. Beyond this, the view extends into the landscape, changing from place to place in a circular pattern. “The stones rest, gathered around the center,” they point to direction and space: “Into this structure, humankind enters and finds its place.”
None of the stones, not even those of the other artists, are placed by chance along the path. All reflect the landscape in which and for which they were created. It is about knowledge and feeling, about culture and nature, about noise (including aircraft noise) and silence, about the hustle and bustle of life and about finding peace.
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11.6 km
Himmelsleiter Sculpture by Hubert Maier
Highlight • Monument
The «Himmelsleiter» by Hubert Maier is one of five large stone objects on the panorama path between Park Bad Weilbach and the wine village Wicker. The carved out of granite sculpture was like the other works during a workshop in the summer of 1998 on site.
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13.0 km
Flörsheimer Watchtower
Highlight • Viewpoint
The approximately 18 km long "Upper Rheingau Wine Experience Trail" from Massenheim via Wicker, Flörsheim, Hochheim to Mainz-Kostheim leads to particularly recommended viewpoints in the wine region around Hochheim...
such as here to the Flörsheimer Warte - a great, recommendable location!
Further information: hochheim-tourismus.de/Sehenswertes-Erleben/Wandern-Radfahren2/Weinerlebnisweg-Oberer-Rheingau
such as here to the Flörsheimer Warte - a great, recommendable location!
Further information: hochheim-tourismus.de/Sehenswertes-Erleben/Wandern-Radfahren2/Weinerlebnisweg-Oberer-Rheingau
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19.8 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
12.1 km
3.09 km
2.36 km
1.15 km
630 m
558 m
Surfaces
8.48 km
4.17 km
3.41 km
2.79 km
878 m
115 m
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