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Gelbach River – Nassau Castle loop from Heilberscheid

Gelbach River – Nassau Castle loop from Heilberscheid

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Gelbach River – Nassau Castle loop from Heilberscheid

01:58

39.3km

620m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 7, 2026

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Nassau

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Start point

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7.70 km

Gelbach River

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The country road through the Gelachtal valley is not very busy, at least on a Monday in April.

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18.4 km

Grey Tower (Witch Tower), Nassau

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The octagonal gray tower is part of the former city fortifications from 1323/24.

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18.7 km

The ruins of Nassau Castle rise near the town of Nassau on the 215.4 m above sea level. NHN [1] high castle mountain, a rock cone 120 meters over the Lahn in the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhine-Lahn-Kreis and is a typical example of a summit castle. Its builders came from the house Nassau, which today still provides the rulers of the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

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19.1 km

Nassau Castle

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The Counts of Laurenburg
The founding father of the Nassau house is Dudo van Laurenburg († before 1124). From 1093-1117 he is mentioned as Tuto de Lurinburg. In a charter from 1134 (after his death) he is mentioned as Count of Laurenburg. Dudo was lord or guardian of Lipporn and Miehlen and built Laurenburg Castle around 1090. The family named themselves the first generations after that castle.

The sons of Dudo, Rupert I and Arnold I built Nassau castle around 1120. Rupert I married Beatrix of Limburg, a daughter of Count Walram II "de Heiden" of Limburg, duke of Lower Lorraine. This is the first connection between the Nassaus and the Netherlands. The marriage meant that the counts of Laurenburg were among the nobility.

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19.6 km

View over Nassau and the Lahn Valley

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Nassau is a small town on the Lahn with a great history. What does the picturesque place have to do with the Bahamas? The castle, which has been enthroned on the castle hill on the other bank since the 12th century, is the ancestral seat of the Nassau family. This noble family still reigns in Luxembourg and the Netherlands today. The English King Wilhelm III. came from this family, and so the name Nassau was carried around the world. The capital of the Bahamas was indirectly named after the small town on the Lahn and not the other way around.

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19.7 km

Adelsheimer Hof (Nassau Town Hall)

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Half-timbered house worth seeing and beautiful wheelbarrow decorations from "local sponsors" in the pedestrian zone ... at least that was the case in May 2020

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19.7 km

St John's Church (Johanniskirche), Nassau

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The 11th century St. John's Church is dedicated to John the Baptist. Except for the tower - a testimony to Rhenish late Romanesque - it was almost completely destroyed during the war. One of the oldest bells in the region from 1480, the early Gothic octagonal baptismal font and numerous tombstones from the 15th and 17th centuries have been preserved. Century, among other things by the family of Freiherr vom Stein. The rebuilt church has windows by the Diez artist Rudolf Fuchs and the painter Heinz Hindorf from 1950/1960.

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20.1 km

Eimelsturm

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Simply a tower. As if someone came down here to find out more

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39.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

33.2 km

3.94 km

1.76 km

257 m

161 m

Surfaces

37.5 km

1.35 km

463 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (440 m)

Lowest point (90 m)

Weather

Tuesday 14 July

29°C

18°C

16 %

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Gelbach River – Nassau Castle loop from Heilberscheid

Gelbach River

Grey Tower (Witch Tower), Nassau

Nassau Castle

Nassau Castle

View over Nassau and the Lahn Valley

Adelsheimer Hof (Nassau Town Hall)

St John's Church (Johanniskirche), Nassau

Eimelsturm

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