Limes hiking trail (Swabian Alb Association)

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Limes hiking trail
Information stand at the Rotenbach hiking car park in Schwäbisch Gmünd
Information stand at the Rotenbach hiking car park in Schwäbisch Gmünd
Data
length approx. 245 kmdep1
location Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria
Supervised by Swabian Alb Association
Markers
LimesWachturm.svg

stylized Roman watchtower
Starting point Miltenberg
49 ° 42 '14 "  N , 9 ° 15' 52"  E
Target point Wilburgstetten
49 ° 1 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 31 ″  E
Type Long-distance hiking trail
Level of difficulty easy
season all year round

The Limes hiking trail is the main hiking trail 6 (HW 6) of the Swabian Alb Association . It follows the course of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes within Baden-Württemberg . The route begins in Miltenberg am Main and ends in Wilburgstetten an der Wörnitz . The total length is 245 km.

Route

The Limes hiking trail begins in Miltenberg and initially runs in a south-south-east direction along the Upper German Limes. The eastern Odenwald and the building land are hiked through. Via Walldürn and Osterburken you reach the Hohenlohe plain and cross the Jagst at Jagsthausen and the Kocher at Sindringen .

Via Öhringen you get to the Swabian-Franconian Forest . The hiking trail crosses Mainhardt and Murrhardt . You finally get to Lorch im Remstal via Welzheim .

Here the Roman provinces of Upper Germany and Raetia bordered one another. The Upper German Limes merges into the Raetian Limes, and the Limes hiking trail bends at right angles to the east-northeast. You walk through Schwäbisch Gmünd and cross the Kocher a second time near Hüttlingen and the Jagst a second time near Rainau .

Finally, in Wilburgstetten, the hiker reaches the border of today's state of Baden-Württemberg and the end of main hiking trail 6.

The section from Miltenberg to Osterburken is managed as the Eastern Limes Trail by the Odenwald Club.

Connection to other Limes routes

The path is part of a whole series of Limes hiking trails , which, as the German Limes hiking trail, open up the entire length of the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes to hikers.

In the Limesweg of the Franconian Alb Association (route 46), the route from Wilburgstetten continues for around 39 kilometers to Gunzenhausen . Further east, the covers Limes hiking trail in the nature park Altmühltal from the rest of the Limes route to the Danube.

The northern portion of the Limes of Lindschied about Bad Ems to Rheinbrohl as Limes trail marked.

mark

Continuous marking is a stylized Roman watchtower in black with a red bar at the bottom. Occasionally one also comes across simplified markings according to the scheme of the main hiking trails of the Swabian Alb Association: a red crossbar on a white background. Usually, but not always, the text "HW 6" can be found in black below or above the bar.

  • Alternative signpost of HW 6

  • Signpost of the Limes hiking trail

Sights along the way

The most important sight is of course the Limes itself. With its tracks on the ground, reconstructed watchtowers, palisades , ditches and remains of walls, it represents an impressive testimony to the past. The UNESCO has the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in 2005 as a World Heritage classified.

Almost all of the larger towns through which the hiking trail passes originated from Roman castles . Remnants of it can be found in Miltenberg, Walldürn, Osterburken, Jagsthausen, Öhringen (even two forts: Bürg and Rendel), Mainhardt, Murrhardt, Welzheim (also two forts), Lorch and Rainau, as well as in a few smaller towns.

The Limes Museum Aalen is not far away .

literature

Web links

Commons : Limes hiking trail  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main hiking trail 37 Limesweg ( memento from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ http://www.limesstrasse.de/deutsche-limes-strasse/wanderweg/
  3. ^ Path 46: Limes path of the Franconian Alb Association