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Experience Route 8: Green Spelt Cycle Path

On the trail of green spelt by bike!Discover the power grain of the Tauber Valley and the Odenwald.

With this solid one-day route, we send cyclists on the trail of green spelt, the power grain that has been traditionally harvested by hand in the Tauber Valley and the Odenwald for a long time and dried over a beech wood fire in the customary green spelt dryers according to old-fashioned methods. Nowadays, the harvesting and drying process mostly takes place mechanically, but during various festivals, the tradition is still commemorated and the ancestral production methods are practiced.

Along the way, you will repeatedly notice the traditional green spelt dryers by the roadside. In this context, Altheim even invites you to visit the local green spelt museum. If you want to split the route over two days, accommodation options are available in Walldürn or Hardheim. By the way, the Limes also runs near Walldürn, which you can take a closer look at on the Limes educational trail north of the town.

Route sections:

Wölchingen - Eubigheim (8 km)

Eubigheim - Hohenstadt - Hirschlanden - Rosenberg (7 km)

Rosenberg - Sindolsheim - Altheim - Walldürn (19 km)

Walldürn - Höpfingen - Hardheim (9 km)

Hardheim - Bretzingen - Erfeld - Gerichtstetten - Buch am Ahorn (12 km)

Buch am Ahorn - Gräffingen - Kupprichhausen - Oberschüpf - Unterschüpf (15 km)

Unterschüpf - Schweigern - Boxberg - Wölchingen (5 km)

Attractions and leisure activities:

Wölchingen: Cathedral of the Franconian region (12th century)

Eubigheim: former Bettendorf Castle (1566 - now town hall)

Hohenstadt: Green spelt dryers on Steinigweg

Rosenberg: Forest educational trail, sports and leisure centre

Altheim: Green spelt museum

Walldürn: Pilgrimage basilica "Zum heiligen Blut", Old town hall (1448), city and pilgrimage museum, ivory museum, Limes educational trail

Höpfingen: Family swimming pool, local history museum "Farmhouse in the village"

Hardheim: Erfatal Museum, castle, Walter Hohmann observatory, planet trail

Buch: Outdoor pool, forest playground

Kupprichhausen: Green spelt festival in September

Oberschüpf: Castle (1587)

Unterschüpf: former water castle (1616)

Boxberg: Parish church from 1709, Kurpfälzisches Amtshaus

In the brochure "Regioradeln", which is valid until early 2024, the route still continues via Hardheim - Bretzingen - Erfeld - Schwarzenbrunn - Buch am Ahorn. The route is also still called "Experience Route 8 - On the trail of green spelt" there.

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Wölchingen train station

Along the way, you can visit individual farms of the green spelt producers and also buy green spelt directly from the producer!

The start and end point of the route is the green spelt town of Boxberg. From here, the route passes laterally over Kailberg to Eubigheim, where you can relax a bit for the next few kilometres in the river valley of the Eubigheimer Bach. At Altheim, the next climb awaits. Once you have mastered this, you can look forward to a nice, long descent down to Hardheim. From here, you follow the Mühlenradweg southwards before the next hill section awaits shortly after Erfeld. At Unterschüpf, the path finally leads back into the valley of the Umpfer and from there back to Boxberg.