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Experience route 12: Hohenlohe Residence Trail

The Hohenlohe Residence Route offers great cultural highlights over 80.7 km.

There is so much to discover in Rothenburg ob der Tauber – from the Plönlein, the landmark of Rothenburg, through the Topplerschlösschen to the medieval town fortifications – that a few hours alone are probably not enough to absorb it all.

While the wine village of Tauberzell offers more culinary delights, Creglingen has a whole series of museums. In Röttingen, towards the end of the route, you can tell the time on various sundials. Not at all impractical: this allows you to make sure several times that you catch your connecting train in Weikersheim.

Route sections:

Weikersheim - Laudenbach - Vorbachzimmern - Niederstetten (11 km)

Niederstetten - Schrozberg (10 km)

Schrozberg - Rothenburg o.d.T. (22 km)

Rothenburg o.d.T. - Detwang - Tauberzell - Creglingen (19 km)

Creglingen - Bieberehren - Röttingen (10 km)

Röttingen - Tauberrettersheim - Weikersheim (8 km)

Sights and leisure activities:

Weikersheim: Tauberland Village Museum, Renaissance castle with alchemy museum, castle park and orangery, historic marketplace, planet trail, indoor swimming pool, observatory

Niederstetten: Haltenbergstetten Castle with church, library with exhibition about airship captain Albert Sammt, municipal local history museum, town hall, remains of city walls and watchtowers, St. Jacob’s Church, frescoes in the cemetery chapel

Schrozberg: former water castle (15th to 17th centuries), Protestant church with onion dome (1614)

Rothenburg o.d.T.: town hall, St. Jacob's Church with the Holy Blood altar by Tilman Riemenschneider, medieval town fortifications, double bridge, Plönlein, Rödertor, Spital bastion, Topplerschlösschen, history vault, Rothenburg Museum, crime and Christmas museum, heated outdoor and indoor swimming pool

Detwang: church with crucifixion altar by Tilman Riemenschneider

Tauberzell: wine village, church, former shepherd’s barn, Hautschen mill

Creglingen: Herrgott’s Church with Marian altar by Tilman Riemenschneider, Romschlössle, thimble museum, Jewish museum, Lindlein tower museum

Bieberehren: half-timbered town hall (1612), parish church of St. Peter and Paul, Marian chapel

Röttingen: wine village, Brattenstein castle, historic town hall, wine museum with museum vineyard, sundial and archaeological hiking trail

Tauberrettersheim: Tauber bridge by Balthasar Neumann

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Take your time and discover the historic towns along the way!

By bus and train to Weikersheim

For the crowning conclusion of the experience routes in the Tauber valley, it goes onto the Hohenlohe Residence Trail. This leads in a large loop from Weikersheim to Rothenburg ob der Tauber and back. In total, just under 82 kilometers have to be covered. From Weikersheim, one follows the Vorbach to the south up to Schrozberg, where the highest point of the route is already reached. Through a forest section, the path leads from here westwards and then takes you directly into the Tauber valley to Rothenburg. If you prefer to do the route in two stages, Rothenburg ob der Tauber naturally offers the perfect opportunity for an overnight stay. From Rothenburg, it then goes back along the Tauber to Weikersheim. You pass through the towns of Tauberzell, Creglingen, and Röttingen, where a short or sometimes longer stop is worthwhile – whether just for a physical or even cultural break, that is entirely up to you. Afterwards, it continues via Röttingen back to Weikersheim.