The Limes cycle path leads along the former Roman border fortifications from the Middle Rhine, over the Taunus to southern Germany to the Danube. The route is very mountainous, as the builders of the Limes naturally did not take cyclists into account.
The demanding cycle route begins in Bad Hönningen on the Rhine. From here it goes over the Westerwald and Taunus in the Wetterau. At Seligenstadt im Rhine Main Area the Main is reached.
To Miltenberg The route now follows the Main, which the Romans used as a natural border. From Miltenberg it's getting mountainous again. About the Building land, the Swabian-Franconian Forest and the Franconian Alb eventually becomes the Danube southeast of Kelheim reached (end of the Limes). In regensburg the bike path ends.
Route profile
- Length: approx. 800 km
- Signposting: present, but the signs are quite small or not present at all. Since the quality of the signs is sometimes very poor, you risk getting lost without cycling literature.
- Slopes: Many, partly very demanding, slopes in the low mountain ranges.
- Path condition: changeable - especially in the low mountain ranges on longer stretches bad surfaces; In some cases the route also follows the Limes hiking trail.
- Traffic load: The cycle route mostly leads away from the car traffic. But you have to watch out for hikers, as the bike route often runs on hiking trails.
- Suitable bike: It is best to have a MTB or a touring bike with gearshifts suitable for mountains and a lot of profile on the tires.
- Family suitability: No - because of the many inclines in the low mountain ranges and poor road surfaces. If you want to cycle the route with children, you have to start with very short stages (20 km are often sufficient) and should be able to trust that the children are capable of stress, possibly persistent in pushing and are frustration-tolerant ...
- Inline suitability: Is partially in the main valley between Aschaffenburg and Miltenberg given.
background
The Limes.Radweg follows the course of the Upper German-Raetian Limeswho has been working since 2005 for the UNESCO world cultural heritage belongs. The Limes extends over a length of 550 km and goes through four federal states. There are four central information points along the 816 km long cycle path:
- 1 RömerWelt at the Caput Limitis, Arienheller, Rheinbrohl. Tel.: (0)2635 921866. Rhineland-Palatinate.
- 2 Saalburg Roman fort, Saalburg 1, Bad Homburg. Tel.: (0)6175 93740. Archaeological Park, Hesse.
- 3 Limes information center in Aalen, Sankt-Johann-Strasse 5. Tel.: (0)7361 5282870. Baden-Wuerttemberg.
- 4 Bavarian Limes Information Center, Martin-Luther-Platz 3, Weißenburg. Tel.: (0)9141 907189. Bavaria.
getting there
Public transportation
Selection of stations that are particularly suitable for getting on the route:
- Bad Hönningen on the Rhine (route Koblenz - Bonn-Beuel)
- Bad Ems an der Lahn (Lahntalbahn Koblenz - Limburg an der Lahn - Gießen)
- Idstein (Route Frankfurt am Main - Limburg an der Lahn)
- Wehrheim Saalburg / Lochmühle (Route (Frankfurt am Main) - Bad-Homburg - Brandoberndorf)
- Butzbach (Route Frankfurt am Main - Giessen)
- Hanau
- Osterburken (Route Heilbronn - Würzburg)
- Bask
- Gunzenhausen (Würzburg - Donauwörth - Augsburg route)
- regensburg
By bicycle
The Limes cycle path has various connections. A confusing list should be dispensed with here.
In the street
The Limes cycle path is a long distance cycle path, so arriving by car is rather impractical.
Route description with sights
Corner points of the route
Place list with selected connections. A complete overview of connections is beyond the scope of this list.
Bad Hönningen - Holzhausen: 107 km
- 1 Bad Hönningen - The adventure museum "Römer Welt" in Rheinbrohl, which opened in 2008, is definitely worth seeing. An extensive adventure exhibition with an open-air site (including a replica watchtower) provides information about the Limes (Museum side).
- 2 Bendorf Km: 37.5
- 3 Höhr-Grenzhausen Km: 45.5
- 4 Bad Ems → Connection Lahn valley cycle path Km: 78
- 5 Holzhausen Km: 107.5
Holzhausen - Hunger: 135 km
- 6 Bad Schwalbach Km: 131.5
- 7 TaunussteinKm: 142
- 8 Idstein Km: 155
- 9 Schmitten· Km: 166
- 10 Taunus Pass "Red Cross" 688 m above sea level → connection of the Weiltalweg to Weilburg
A fort, reconstructed with foundation walls, is located northwest of the Feldberg, just behind the “Red Cross”. Shortly afterwards the Weilquelle follows on the right, further ascent to 773 m.
There is also a detour from the route to the Great Feldberg at 880 m, the highest point in the Taunus. - 11 Taunus Pass "Sandplacken" 669 m above sea level NN - bicycle bus on weekends
- Saalburg Castle · Km: 182 - well-known reconstructed Roman fort in the Taunus
- 12 Butzbach· Km: 216.5
- 13 Hunger· Km: 247
Hunger - Miltenberg: 136 km
- 14 Hanau
- 15 Seligenstadt
- 16 Aschaffenburg A considerable collection of Roman finds from the Limes forts on the Bavarian Lower Main can be seen with a lapidarium in the Stiftsmuseum. The Pompejanum, a branch museum of the State Collections of Antiquities and the Glyptothek in Munich, shows original Roman pieces from their collections. In the Nilkheimer Park are the remains of the Roman bathhouse of the Limes Fort Stockstadt.
- 17 Obernburg am Main
- 18 Miltenberg- connection Main cycle path
Miltenberg - Lorch: 165 km
- 19 Amorbach
- 20 Walldürn
- 21 Osterburken - Of course it is worth a visit Roman Museum.
- 22 Öhringen
- 23 Welzheim - with the partially reconstructed east fort.
- 24 Lorch - From the reconstructed watchtower above the town by the monastery you can look down into the Rems valley.
Lorch - Weissenburg: 147 km
- 25 Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Bask - with the Limes information center
- 26 Gunzenhausen - connection Altmühltal cycle path
- 27 Weißenburg in Bavaria
Weissenburg - regensburg: 128 km
- 28 Kipfenberg
- 29 Altmannstein
- 30 Eining
- 31 Kelheim
- 32 regensburg
trips
- on the Danube cycle path Towards the Black Sea
References to literature and maps
- Bikeline bike tour book "Limes-Radweg" 1: 75000 (816 km), weatherproof, 13.90 €, 1st edition 2015 ISBN 978-3-85000-655-2 - please refer Esterbauer publishing house
