Jurasteig
| Jurasteig | |
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 Altitude profile 2017, start in Kelheim |
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| length | 237 km |
| location | Germany , Bavaria |
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| Starting point |
Kelheim 48 ° 55 ′ 6.4 ″ N , 11 ° 52 ′ 27 ″ E |
| Target point |
Kelheim 48 ° 55 ′ 6.4 ″ N , 11 ° 52 ′ 27 ″ E |
| Type | Long-distance hiking trail |
Map with all coordinates: The Jurasteig is a circular hiking trail in Bavaria (and therefore not a long-distance hiking trail in the true sense of the word ), "whose main route ... almost comprehensively traces the scope and extent of the Upper Palatinate Alb in its compactness". Starting from Kelheim, it crosses the Upper Palatinate Jura for a distance of 237 km , also known as the Middle // Franconian Jura //, before returning to the starting point after 13 days. The highest and lowest points are marked by the // Habsberg // in the Lauterach-Kuppenalb and Matting (on the Danube). // Kastl // in the Lauterachtal and the Weltenburger Enge (// Danube breakthrough near Weltenburg //) mark the northernmost and southernmost stage point. An additional 18 loop routes (circular routes) are defined along the main route.
Route
The Jurasteig runs from Kelheim to the east in the Danube Valley , crosses the Danube at Poikam and reaches Bad Abbach . From there it goes north. At Matting the Danube is crossed on a ferry, and via Schönhofen you get to the Naab valley .
The Jurasteig follows the heights above the Naab valley upstream to Kallmünz , from there then the valley of the Vils . Here the path runs for a while along the eastern Albrand path of the Franconian Alb Association to Schmidmühlen .
The Hohenfels military training area is circled to the north. Via Hohenburg and Kastl, the path leads northwest to the Alb plateau in order to reach the Habsberg (621 m), the highest elevation of the entire route.
Now it goes on in a south-westerly direction. The path reaches the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and the valley of the Weißen Laber , which you follow to the south. Deining and Holnstein are the most important places on the river. At Dietfurt , the White Laber finally flows into the Altmühl .
The last part of the Jurasteig follows the Altmühltal to the southeast and largely coincides with the Altmühltal-Panoramaweg . Via Riedenburg and Essing you get to the Danube Valley above Weltenburg Abbey . You finally reach the starting point in Kelheim at the Liberation Hall .
The exact course of the routes can be found in OpenStreetMap .
Stages (main route)
The following division into 13 stages follows the website of the hiking trail (www.jurasteig.de).
- Stage 1: Kelheim - Bad Abbach (21.6 km)
- Stage 2: Bad Abbach - Eilsbrunn (16.3 km)
- Stage 3: Eilsbrunn - Pielenhofen (16.6 km)
- Stage 4: Pielenhofen - Kallmünz (15.7 km)
- Stage 5: Kallmünz - Schmidmühlen (17.9 km)
- Stage 6: Schmidmühlen - Hohenburg (14.7 km)
- Stage 7: Hohenburg - // Kastl // (16.3 km)
- Stage 8: Kastl - Oberwiesenacker (15.5 km)
- Stage 9: Oberwiesenacker - Deining (18.4 km)
- Stage 10: Deining - Holnstein (19.5 km)
- Stage 11: Holnstein - Dietfurt (15.8 km)
- Stage 12: Dietfurt - Riedenburg (26.7 km)
- Stage 13: Riedenburg - Kelheim (22.6 km)
Although the main route of the hiking trail - with the exception of the Lower Bavarian municipal areas of Riedenburg, Essing, Kelheim and Bad Abbach - "runs almost three quarters of its total length in the // Upper Palatinate Jura //" (individual proof see above, p. 222), are in the official Jurasteig information from tourism marketing (hiking guide, folding map, hiking map) references to the cultural and natural landscape of the // Upper Palatinate // largely excluded; instead, reference is made to a scenic fictional character named Bayerischer Jura as a "phantom region" (cf. itemization above, p. 222ff).
Loop routes (secondary route)
A special feature of the Jurasteig are the loop paths that branch off from the main route and lead back to it. They open up further sights of the // Upper Palatinate Jura //. Each loop trail can be carried out as a one-day circular hike.
- Loop path 1 = Asam loop: Ensdorf - Vierzehn-Nothelfer-Kirche - Rieden - Ensdorf (8.1 km)
- Loop path 2 = Bärenloch loop: Traidendorf - Bärenloch - Rohrbach - Traidendorf (10.7 km)
- Loop path 3 = Burg Lengenfeld loop: Dietldorf - Dexhof - Wasenhütte - Burglengenfeld - Wasenhütte - Dietldorf (22.6 km)
- Loop path 4 = Danube loop: Weltenburg Abbey - Stausacker - Eining - Weltenburg Abbey (16.2 km)
- Loop trail 5 = Hirschwald loop: Blaugrund - Kreuth - Rieden - Vierzehn-Nothelfer-Kirche - Palkering - Blaugrund (19.2 km)
- Loop trail 6 = speleological loop: Mühlbach - Eutenhofen - Mühlbach (12.8 km)
- Loop trail 7 = Kaiser-Thermen-Schlaufe: Bad Abbach - Moosweiher - Peisenhofen - Bad Abbach (18.9 km)
- Loop path 8 = König-Ludwig loop: Matzenhof - Ernersdorf - Berching - Holnstein - Matzenhof (20.8 km)
- Loop path 9 = König-Otto-Loop: Oberweickenhof - König-Otto-Tropfsteinhöhle - Velburg - Oberweickenhof (18.3 km)
- Loop path 10 = Kuppenalb loop: Habsberg - Unterwiesenacker - Hilzhofen - Habsberg (10.6 km)
- Loop path 11 = Mariahilf loop: Lengenbach - Höhenberg - Mariahilf church - Arzthofen (13.3 km)
- Loop path 12 = Rechenfels loop: // Kastl // - Pfaffenhofen - Kastl - Rechenfels - Kastl (11.5 km)
- Loop path 13 = Roman loop: Eining - Sittling - Bad Gögging - Eining (13.7 km)
- Loop path 14 = Schwarze-Laber loop: Alling - Eilsbrunn - Alling (10.5 km)
- Loop path 15 = Tillyland loop: Breitenbrunn - Erggertshofen - Dietfurt - Breitenbrunn (17.6 km)
- Loop path 16 = pilgrim loop: Habsberg - Trautmannshofen - Habsberg (15.8 km)
- Loop path 17 = wolf trail to the White Woman: Pielenhofen - Wolfsegg - Käfersdorf - Pielenhofen (9.3 km)
- Loop path 18 = Petersberg loop: Holnstein - Petersberg - Ittelhofen - Petersberg - Holnstein (15 km)
mark
The marking of the main route of the Jurasteig is a stylized handwritten J in blue on a yellow background. The lettering ends in a line that can be interpreted as a rough sketch of mountains or rocks.
The colors of the loop paths are reversed. Here the background color is blue and the stylized J is yellow. In addition, there is also the name of the respective loop, also yellow on a blue background, and the addition “am Jurasteig”.
Award
The German Hiking Association audited the Jurasteig in October 2007 and on January 12, 2008 awarded it the rating of quality hiking trail in Germany . This makes the Jurasteig, after the Frankenweg , the Altmühltal-Panoramaweg , the Erzweg , the Franconian Mountain Path , the Frankenalb-Panoramaweg and the Zeugenbergrunde , another hiking trail in the Franconian Alb area with this award.
Others
An ultramarathon , the JUNUT (Jurasteig Nonstop Ultratrail), has been held every year since 2013 over the entire length of the Jurasteig.
Individual evidence
- Raw map data from www.jurasteig.de (accessed on August 16, 2017)
- ↑ Helmut Geist (2019): The Jurasteig from a local landscape perspective. The Upper Palatinate 107 (4), p. 214.)
- ↑ Altmühltal Jurasteig in Openstreetmap
- ↑ JUNUT homepage (accessed on August 8, 2017)
