Rheingau Gebück hiking trail

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Rheingau Gebück hiking trail Symbol Wanderer.svg
Marking of the Rheingau Gebück hiking trail
Marking of the Rheingau Gebück hiking trail
Data
length approx. 50 kmdep1
location on the right bank of the Rhine, in the Rhine-Taunus Nature Park
Markers two stylized black hedge trees on a white background
Starting point Niederwalluf , Haselnussgasse
50 ° 2 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 31.6 ″  E
Target point Lorch ,
parking lot Wispermünd
50 ° 2 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 8.7 ″  E
Type trail
The highest point 537 m
Lowest point 77 m
Level of difficulty medium
season all year round
particularities Historic hiking trail
Course of the path (red)
Remains of the oven bulwark in Niederwalluf
Old hunchback trees on the Wolfsrück
Former bulwark at Mapper Schanze

The Rheingau Gebück hiking trail is a 50-kilometer hiking trail in the Rhein-Taunus nature park . Starting in Niederwalluf he roughly follows the course of the old Landwehr Rheingau Gebück to Wispermündung in Lorch . The hiking trail set up in 2000 by the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park Association explains historical information on the Rheingau Gebück with information boards at 21 stations and leads past the few remaining evidence of the Gebück. The path is marked with two stylized black hedge trees on a white background.

Rheingau Gebück

The Rheingau Gebück was a border security system consisting of "bent", i.e. kinked or bent, hornbeam and red beech , which protected the Rheingau for centuries. The origins of the bridge are not exactly known. In a document from 1347, the Counts of Nassau were awarded a hunt from the Rhine to the "hedge" , which could mean the hedge . In 1771 the bridge was given up.

course

Beginning in Haselnussgasse in Niederwalluf , where the first station of the hiking trail is located, the path follows the former wall, which, coming from the Rhine as part of the bridge, secured the eastern border of the Rheingau. Remnants of the wall can be found near the viaduct. Of the two bulwarks, the Stock and Oestricher bulwark, as well as the four gate houses that cut through the wall, nothing remains today. Remnants of the oven bulwark were uncovered again in the main street, a display board also provides information about the former fortifications.

Now it goes over Oberwalluf through the Walluftal (station 3) on a dirt road to Martinsthal . The bulwark on Molkenborn was located here (station 4), which secured the city to the northwest. In the Thirty Years' War, Swedish soldiers broke through the bulwark in 1631 and conquered the Rheingau.

From Martinsthal, the Gebück originally followed roughly the course of today's federal road 260 towards the north, but the hiking trail initially leads via Rauenthal . Station 5 is located at the town hall there. At the end of the village, continue along the Große Straße , an old high-altitude path that led from Eltville to Kemel im Taunus, down towards Schlangenbad . The former Klingenpforte bulwark , which was demolished in 1822, was located near the parking lot on the B 260 (station 6) . In Schlangenbad, a path leads from Nassauer Allee to a car park with station 7. Following the path, you come across the remains of the former ski jump on the Sauerwasserpfad (station 8). In the 18th and 19th centuries, mineral water from Bad Schwalbach was brought to Eltville via the Sauerwasserpfad.

From here it goes on to Hausen vor der Höhe . Along the outskirts of the village, the path takes you via Landstrasse 3035 towards Kiedrich to the Förster-Bitter-Eiche car park (station 9). The Hausener or Kiedricher bulwark was on the top of the pass . From the parking lot it goes over the paved Hinderlandswaldstraße through the forest to the resting place Phillips Ruh . A branch path leads to old hedge trees on Wolfsrück (station 10). These trees, all beeches, are some of the last of the original thicket trees. Since they were no longer stooped after 1771 and their crowns no longer hewn out, they grew up above the thickened old stoop. Although the trees are already very gappy, the former width of the pontoon can be guessed here.

Back to the main path you will find station 11 at the Ruh-Platz intersection . The Bollwerk Bosenhahn or Bossenhain was nearby, but the exact location is no longer known today. The path that now follows leads past the Mapper Hof (station 12) to the ruins of the Mapper Schanze (station 13). The half-collapsed gate tower with an adjoining roundabout dates from 1494, after the bridge was abandoned, the jump was used as a forester's house until 1913. Shortly after the Mapper Schanze, the stilt ended, the Ernstbachtal in front of the Rheingau and the hinterland forest were considered so inaccessible that there was no danger from there.

Continue over the forest crossing Sieben Wegweiser (station 14) to the Bordekreuz on the country road 3272 from Stephanshausen to Presberg (station 15). Between the Bordekreuz and the now following station 16, Bollwerk Weißer Thurm (today forester's house Weißenthurm ), the structure began again as a continuous hedge.

Past Presberg, it goes over the ruins of the Kammerburg on a steep path down to the Wispertal . At Gasthaus Kammerburg (station 17) you cross Wisperstraße and follow the small county road 625 through the Werkerbachtal towards Wollmigart . After about a kilometer, turn left into Dolsitbachtal. The path now leads over the ruins of the castles Rheinberg and Blideneck (station 18) to Ransel , where a detour to the Ransel country museum is worthwhile. At the southern exit of the village, a path leads right down to Sauerthal . Station 19 is located at the Sauerthal cemetery. After the cemetery, turn right over a steep path into a stream valley. The path follows the stream until it meets the medieval Weiseler Straße (station 20), the old connecting path from Lorch via Weisel to Nastätten .

Now it goes downhill until the path meets the Rheinsteig above Lorchhausen . Further on in Lorch, at the confluence of the Wisper with the Rhine, the end point is reached at a parking lot, where the last station can be found.

Connections to long-distance hiking trails

The Gebück hiking trail runs partly on the European long-distance hiking trail E3 and the Rheinhöhenweg .

cards

literature

  • Christian Grubert The Rheingau Gebück hiking trail. A cultural-historical hiking guide , Idstein, Zweckverband Naturpark Rhein-Taunus 2001

Web links

Commons : Rheingauer Gebück  - Collection of images, videos and audio files