Eckbach mill hiking trail

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Eckbach mill hiking trail
Wooden signpost with logo and name
Wooden signpost with logo and name
map
Map of the hiking trail
Data
length 23 kmdep1
location Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate
Leiningerland
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 mdep1
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.

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
1. Obermühle
2. Rock mill , which is operated as an excursion restaurant and guest house
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hiking is the miller's delight ... on the bike, Kneipp and Eckbach mill hiking trails . Verbandsgemeinde Hettenleidelheim, Hettenleidelheim 2000.
  2. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land and Wolfgang Niederhöfer (eds.): Inauguration of the Mühlenwanderweg on October 12, 1997 . 1997.