View from Merkur Mountain – View of the River Murg loop from Bischweier (Baden)

Mountain biking trails

View from Merkur Mountain – View of the River Murg loop from Bischweier (Baden)

Moderate

4.7

(57)

116

riders

View from Merkur Mountain – View of the River Murg loop from Bischweier (Baden)

02:47

34.6km

630m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 8, 2026

Tips

Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 14.9 km for 212 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

Get Directions

2.78 km

Unimog Museum, Gaggenau

Highlight • Monument

Anyone who is interested in the history of the Unimog must definitely go in here. It is also highly recommended to drive a Unimog over the adjacent "bumpy slope" with gradients of up to 100%.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

16.4 km

View from Merkur Mountain

Highlight • Viewpoint

Great view over Baden-Baden, the surrounding Northern Black Forest, but also with a distant view over the Rhine plain to the Vosges and the Palatinate Forest.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

18.3 km

Satteleiweg Junction and Shelter

Highlight • Rest Area

Significant path spider on the way to Mercury, Baden-Baden and the Murg Valley.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

18.4 km

Fee-Schlapper Hut at Binsenwasen

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Interesting construction, the "Fee-Schlapper-Hütte" at Binsenwasen. Nicely located on the pass between Merkur and kleinem Staufenberg and something different than the "usual" mountain huts.

Showing Translation

Tip by

24.4 km

Lieblingsfelsen

Nature Reserve

28.0 km

View of the River Murg

Highlight • Viewpoint

Murg is simply beautiful and always worth a motif. Regardless of the weather.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

30.7 km

Bad Rotenfels Spa Park

Highlight • Rest Area

Beautiful park with a good combination of culture, history and sports activities.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

31.6 km

Rotenfels Castle

Highlight • Castle

Former country estate of the Margrave of Baden, built around 1725. State Academy for Art, Theater and Culture since 1995.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

31.8 km

Roman House

Highlight • Historical Site

In 1760 the smelter Dürr had a rock cellar knocked out. The "Solitude" built on it was destroyed by the French in 1796. In 1804 Weinbrenner built the Roman house …

Translated by Google •

Tip by

34.6 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

23.0 km

3.53 km

3.00 km

2.84 km

2.25 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

15.9 km

12.3 km

4.18 km

1.53 km

636 m

< 100 m

Elevation

Nothing selected – click and drag below to see the stats for a specific part of the route.

Weather

Friday 16 October

17°C

9°C

54 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 9.0 km/h

to get more detailed weather forecasts along your route

Comments

January 29, 2024,🇩🇪 MERKUR 673 m⛰️ MTB-Tour 🚵🏻‍♂️ hoch über Baden-Baden / U N E S C O - Welterbe - Stadt 👏

... after early spring temperatures prevailed this afternoon - I decided to go up the MERKUR alone again after a long time. 🚵🏻‍♂️ And what can I say, it was so worth it, this beautiful mountain MTB tour to my favorite mountain #3.
Very few 🥾hikers were out and about because the cable car to the MERKUR was closed due …

Showing Translation

February 27, 2022,Über den Merkur zum Eiswolf

Tour to the ice wolf 🍧, which has been open again since last Tuesday, 2/22/22. Burn a few calories beforehand, make room for new ones 😉.

Showing Translation

March 26, 2022,Mountainbike-Tour mit 🐕 und Hänger!

As always when driving with 🐕 and trailer, modest mileage in modest time! But again 'fat' meters in altitude (and that's what matters to me)!! 😉😁✊

Showing Translation

May 31, 2025,🇩🇪 ⚙️〽️tb-Tour 🏰 - MERKUR 673 m ~ badische Heimat vom Feinsten im Murgtal ! 🔃 888 HM, BOSCH‼️ 🤩 😘

Last Saturday I went on a 🚵🏻‍♂️ MTB tour to my local area in the Murg Valley 🏞. - Just like two days earlier on Father's Day (tour to Mahlberg 🗼), my lovely Franconian "KOMOOT guests":
Moni & Alex 🤩
were with me again on the tour.
I had chosen the route so that one highlight followed another in relatively …

Showing Translation