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Karlshalle Graduation Tower – Roseninsel Bad Kreuznach loop from Bad Kreuznach

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Landkreis Bad Kreuznach

Karlshalle Graduation Tower – Roseninsel Bad Kreuznach loop from Bad Kreuznach

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Karlshalle Graduation Tower – Roseninsel Bad Kreuznach loop from Bad Kreuznach

01:34

6.05km

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: May 18, 2026

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296 m

Puricelli Chapel

Highlight • Religious Site

The single-nave building made of red stone blocks is designed in the form of a late Gothic chapel. Laterally attached wings serve as access to the vaulted crypt and as a kind of sacristy. Rich tracery, lavish building decor in vegetal forms, net vaults and furnishings with sculpture and stained glass make the chapel, which has been preserved intact, a jewel of funerary art.
The chapel was built by the Puricelli family of industrialists, who owned the property that now houses the Bangert Manor Museums.
Source: total-lokal.de/city/bad%20kreuznach/data/55545_31_03_12.pdf
pages 16-17

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2.61 km

Stone Arch Bridge Over the Railway Tracks

Highlight • Bridge

Beautiful three-arched stone bridge over the railway tracks. With a bit of luck you can photograph a passing train.

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3.00 km

Karlshalle Graduation Tower

Highlight • Monument

With 1.3 kilometers of graduation towers, water wheels and engine channels, the Salinental is the largest still preserved saltworks in Europe. Here, with the salty air, a fresh sea breeze blows all year round.

Here, where the Nahe flows through an impressive mountain range, salt was extracted 400 years ago. There are numerous salt springs in the Nahe valley. The brine has a salt content of around 1.5%. Salt was extracted from it for 270 years. The aim was to increase the salt content in the brine up to 26%. The graduation towers were a crucial intermediate step for this. In the 18th century, Baron von Beust invented the process of grading droplets. The brine trickled down on large racks with blackthorn hedges. The salt content increased due to natural evaporation. The brine was pumped up seven times with water wheels and slowly ran down. After a week, a salt content of 15 to 20 degrees could be reached. The brine then came from the graduation house to the boiling plant, where the salt was produced.

The surroundings of the graduation tower invite you to linger and let the fresh breeze blow around your nose. In the vicinity of the graduation tower it is fresh and pleasant in hot summer - up to eight degrees cooler in the shade and, above all, a humid breeze blows. So the graduation towers are also a colossal air conditioning system in a graceful landscape. Inhalation on the galleries is particularly effective and appealing.

Today the salty water comes from a 500 m deep spring in the Salinental. It feeds the graduation towers, the open-air inhalatorium in the spa park with the brine atomizer, the thermal baths and the Crucenia health center.

Source: rheinhessen.de/a-gradierwerk-freiluftinhalatorium-salinental

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3.11 km

Historic Pump and Watermill at Bad Kreuznach Saline

Highlight • Monument

In the past, brine water was pumped to the saltworks here, today electricity is generated – very beautiful and interesting on a walk through the spa district of the town

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3.59 km

Roseninsel Bad Kreuznach

Highlight • Monument

THE ROSE ISLAND IS THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN KURPARK AND SALINENTAL, IT OCCURS ITS APPROACH TO THE NEARBY. IN 1905, THE GREEN AREA FOR A LARGE ROSE SHOW WAS CREATED FROM A SMALL NEAR ISLAND.
bad-kreuznach-tourist.de/aktiv-und-natur/parks-der-stadt/roseninsel

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3.67 km

Thirst Monument by Ludwig Cauer

Highlight • Monument

In a life-size bronze sculpture by Ludwig Cauer (1866 - 1947): two English colonial soldiers fight over a helmet full of water. The monument was supposed to commemorate the war against the Boers in South Africa (1899 - 1902) in London, but was rejected after its completion as not heroic enough and returned. Viewed in this way, it can still be understood today as an anti-war mark.
bad-kreuznach.de/wirtschaft-bauen-wohnen/stadtentwicklung-und-umwelt/hochwasserschutz/roseninsel-hinterer-teil

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3.70 km

Oranienquelle Pavilion

Highlight • Monument

The Pitthan family built a residential building (1834), a bathhouse (1835-36) and the hotel "Curhaus Oranienhof" (1834-42), the largest and most elegant hotel in the city, in today's Oranienpark. With the hotel's own "Oranienquelle", which has been developed since around 1838, the baths were supplied with brine - presumably via the water tower. In addition, the Pitthans sold the brine from the Orange Spring in barrels to the town's bathhouses. Carl Friedrich Pitthan died in 1845 at the age of 40.

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4.77 km

Diakonissen Statue at the Motherhouse in Bad Kreuznach

Highlight • Monument

Pentecost 2019 provided the right setting for remembering what the deaconesses have achieved for the Kreuznacher Diakonie Foundation over the past 130 years.
The Bad Kreuznach artist Gernot Meyer-Grönhof was commissioned to create a realistic image of a deaconess in which no Kreuznach sister should be recognizable. The deaconesses closely accompanied the work on the project.
Source and more information: kreuznacherdiakonie.de/aktuelles/melde/statue-vor-dem-mutterhaus-erinnert-an-das-aktiv-der-diakonissen-351

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6.05 km

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Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

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3.39 km

1.04 km

795 m

471 m

345 m

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3.37 km

2.18 km

471 m

< 100 m

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Wednesday 15 July

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Karlshalle Graduation Tower – Roseninsel Bad Kreuznach loop from Bad Kreuznach

Puricelli Chapel

Stone Arch Bridge Over the Railway Tracks

Karlshalle Graduation Tower

Historic Pump and Watermill at Bad Kreuznach Saline

Roseninsel Bad Kreuznach

Thirst Monument by Ludwig Cauer

Oranienquelle Pavilion

Diakonissen Statue at the Motherhouse in Bad Kreuznach

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