Tour 2 - Around the Starkholzbacher lake
- 1:30h
- 4.55 km
- 70 m
- 70 m
Enjoy nature and Lake Starkholzbach on a short circular walk.
Details
Month
Start point
Public transit
Bus connection from Schwäbisch Hall old town centre City bus line 8 from ZOB
Directions
The starting point for this tour is not the old town of Schwäbisch Hall, but Lake Starkholzbach, 10 kilometres away. This is located between the villages of Bibersfeld and Starkholzbach.
Bus connection from Schwäbisch Hall's old town centre City bus line 8 from ZOB. The best route by car is via Bibersfeld (K 2592)
The lake was first mentioned in a document in 1471 and was used by the monks of Comburg Castle as a fishing pond. Today it is a local recreation area with a bathing area, sunbathing lawn and the small Gipsmühle restaurant (www.gipsmuehle-schwaebisch-hall.de).
The route is marked with a green 2 on a white background, sometimes
supplemented by a beaver symbol.
Leave the car park on the K 2592 and walk past the gypsum mill 100 m slightly uphill to the crossroads. Keep right here and stay on the tarmac path to the edge of the forest, past the Haller Landhege information board. Turn right at the bee nature trail and walk along a wide forest path for approx. 1.5 km through spruce and mixed forests until you reach a crossroads in the forest. Keep right here and continue for approx. 1.5 km through the forest, which you leave again above the village of Starkholzbach.
You will be rewarded with a wonderful view over the Hohenlohe plain and Schwäbisch Hall as far as the Einkorn. The lake lies idyllically below you on the right.
The path now leads gently downhill to Starkholzbach. At the entrance to the village, you walk through the farm past cowsheds to the village sign.
Keep left here in the direction of Bibersfeld and walk 300 metres on the right-hand side along the cycle path back to the starting point.
After the one to one-and-a-half hour hike, you can swim in the lake, which was renaturalised in 2012, have a barbecue or relax on the sunbathing lawn. Hunger and thirst can be quenched in the Gipsmühle or in Bibersfeld, 2 km away.
Gear
Suitable for children: yes
Pushchair: yes, with an all-terrain pushchair