Lautertal Cycle Route

Yesterday, I cycled the Lautertal Cycle Path from the source to Zwiefalten in heavy rain and wind. Today, I cycled back up again in sunshine and with lots of cyclists and hikers. What's better? Quiet and miserable weather, or nice weather and lots of activity???🤷🏻‍♂️

The challenge of the tour was: not resting everywhere, looking, splashing around and exploring :). In Zwiefalten we saw 2 pairs of storks breeding. At the general medical practice :)) and the monastery church. It's great to see them again! At the fish pond we stocked up on smoked trout and eel. It was later eaten under a large pasture with a Lauterfusspadschestelle on the bench. Delicious! 2 x homemade ice cream from the numerous ice chests that adorn the path also slid down by themselves. We crawled through 2 caves to the end (ghost cave and tanner cave). You have to climb up the 2nd one and at least be surefooted. We followed the Lauter from its mouth in the Danube to its pretty source. clear. Glorious is on the whole round that you drive in many places between stream, rocks and beautiful nature conservation landscape.

Great bike ride along the Lauter, beautiful natural landscape. Starting point: Offenhausen to Dapfen with a nice cafe and sale of homemade cakes and various knick-knacks, very nice gardens to sit outside. Next aspect worth seeing, a decorative artists' house right on the bike path. Visit to the stud farm in Marbach, continue to the monastery in Obermachtal. From there on to our Bike&Bed Quarter just before Zwiefalten. Sat comfortably together with other cyclists until late into the night.

The second stage of our "Big Lauter" cycle tour took my wife Brigitte and me through a really beautiful valley that we can recommend without reservation. After the Lauter flows into the Danube, we continued to Zwiefaltendorf, where we took a break. Then we cycled to Zwiefalten, where we spent the night in the "Gasthof Post".

from the prospectus; The Lautertal cycle path on the Swabian Alb €69.00Price meeting 08/10/2023 route kilometers about 50 kilometers Course Arrival by bus on the Swabian Alb to Gomadingen - Offenhausen in the beautiful Great Lauter Valley with its famous juniper heaths, castle ruins, caves, forests and rock formations typical of the Alb. The Große Lauter meanders 37 km to the Danube through the valley with the most castles in Germany. We start our tour at the former monastery church, which now houses the stud museum of the main and state stud Marbach. The source of the Great Lauter can be found in the former monastery garden. Passing Gomadingen, after a few kilometers we come to Marbach, Germany's oldest stud farm, a visit to which makes every horse lover's heart beat faster. Then we cycle through picturesque villages with castle ruins enthroned above the valley on to Gundelfingen, where Hohengundelfingen Castle, the mightiest castle in the Lauter Valley, is located. After Anhausen we come to the car-free Lautertal and pass the "Ochsenlöcher" and the castle ruins of Wartstein. At the Laufenmühle we come to a romantic district road, on which we drive between rocks to Lauterrach. Now we come to the Danube and have a beautiful view of the mouth of the Lauter, before we can soon see the church towers of the baroque monastery Obermarchtal. After a short visit, we continue cycling along the Danube to our destination Zwiefalten, where we end up with a visit to the Zwiefalter Minster, one of the most important late-Baroque buildings. Then return by bus with a stop.

20°C, 3-4 Bft from the northeast, partly cloudy, sunny. Starting point: Marbach Cycled along the Lauter River from Marbach to Obermarchtal and back. Cycling this tour is a MUST every year.

Parking lot 72532 Marbach, Am Dolderbach, chargeable 20 ° 2 Bft from N, sunny ☀

On the Alb 24° 2 Bft from E, slightly cloudy, sunny Starting point: Stud Marbach Cycle the Lautertal cycle path to Obermarchtal. Here was the turning point. The Lautertal is one of the most beautiful valleys in the Swabian Jura.