Eckbach mill hiking trail
Eckbach mill hiking trail | |
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Wooden signpost with logo and name |
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Data | |
length | 23 km |
location | Germany |
Markers | wooden signpost with the logo |
Starting point |
Hertlingshausen (Eckbachquelle) 49 ° 29 '47.2 " N , 8 ° 0' 52.5" O |
Target point |
Dirmstein (Spormühle) 49 ° 33 ′ 34.5 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 43" E |
Type | trail |
Height difference | 207 m |
The highest point | 311 m above sea level NHN |
Lowest point | 104 m above sea level NHN |
Level of difficulty | light |
season | all year round |
Viewpoints | Altleiningen , Neuleiningen and Battenberg castles above the Eckbachtal |
particularities | 23 historic Eckbach mills including a mill museum , numerous other architectural monuments |
The Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg is a hiking trail in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has a length of 23 km and runs with a slight gradient along the Eckbach through the southern part of the Leiningerland in the northeastern Palatinate .
course
The hiking trail runs from west to east / northeast within the community of Leiningerland . From the Palatinate Forest via the vineyards on the German Wine Route to the edge of the Rhine plain , it connects nine local communities that still have 23 partially restored mills - of the original 35.
The difference in altitude between the start and end point ( Hertlingshausen / Eckbachquelle, 311 m , or Dirmstein / Spormühle , 104 m ) is 207 m, the cumulative difference in altitude over the slightly sloping route is only about 250 m. This means that the trail has an easy level of difficulty .
The path, which can be walked all year round, is marked by wooden signposts that were made by hand by voluntary helpers and have been maintained since then. To the left of the name “Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg” they have a logo that shows a house outline with a mill wheel above a wavy line and was designed in 1997 by Cosmas Kösters from Kirchheim in a school competition . The wavy line symbolizes the Eckbach, the stylized house with a mill wheel symbolizes a mill.
20-tube fountain in Altleiningen
Rock mill in the Neuleiningen valley
Village mill in Großkarlbach
Eastern end point: Spormühle in Dirmstein
history
The path was set up for tourist purposes on the initiative of the mill researcher Wolfgang Niederhöfer from Kleinkarlbach by the then community of Grünstadt-Land . On October 12, 1997, the inauguration by the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Kurt Beck took place in Großkarlbach , the place with the most preserved mills (six of seven). The then suggested expansion of the Großkarlbacher Dorfmühle into a cultural monument and mill museum Leiningerland was completed in 2007.
The trail originally began at the Eckbachweiher and was only 19 km long. In 2000, the Hettenleidelheim association joined the tourism initiative and extended the route by 4 km up to the Eckbach spring in Hertlingshausen. This is marked with the knight's stone No. 286 , which has the inscription "Eckbach-Ursprung" carved on it.
Places and mills
- 1. Hertlingshausen with Eckbachquelle in the district part Kleinfrankreich
- 2. Altleiningen with the Eckbach inflow from the 20-tube fountain
- 3. Neuleiningen valley with the dammed Eckbachweiher
- 4. Kleinkarlbach
- 3. Fulling mill
- 4. Meadow mill
- 5. Bann and baking mill
- 6. Straw mill
- 7. Grinding mill
- 8. Long mill
- 5. Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse
- 9. candelabra or oligmill
- 10. Donkey mill
- 11. Kochsche Mühle (popularly known as the Grafliche Leininger Mühle )
- 6. Bissersheim
- 12. Curd mill
- 13. Haldmühle
- 14. Mountain mill
- 7. Grosskarlbach
- 15. Mill by the pond
- 16. Castle mill with discotheque Frank's Bodega
- 17. Rheinmühle
- 18. Dorfmühle as a mill museum in Leiningerland
- 19. Poplar mill
- 20. Heckmühle
- 8. Laumersheim
- 21. Willow Mill
- 22. Hornungsmühle
- 9. Dirmstein (The former Niedermühle was converted into a listed estate in the 19th century.)
- 23. Spormühle , which is operated as a country hotel
literature
- Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land and Wolfgang Niederhöfer (ed.): Inauguration of the mill hiking trail on October 12, 1997 . Festschrift. Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land, Grünstadt and Kleinkarlbach 1997.
- Hiking is the miller's delight ... on the bike, Kneipp and Eckbach mill hiking trails . Verbandsgemeinde Hettenleidelheim, Hettenleidelheim 2001.
Web links
- Description from the State Office for Surveying and Basic Geographic Information Rhineland-Palatinate
- Map , on: deutsche-weinstrasse.de (PDF; 306 kB)
- Palatinate festival poem for the opening in 1997