The Rheingau Riesling Path is a hiking trail through the Rheingau vineyards and leads through the Rheingau of Wicker at Hochheim above Wiesbaden and the Niederwald monument above Rudesheim am Rhein to Chew in the Rhineland-Palatinate part of Middle Rhine Valley.
background
The Rheingau Riesling Path is a network of paths that lead through the Rheingau vineyards, often also on the edge of the Taunus, so that you can usually look over the vineyards to the Rhine.
preparation
Waymarks on the OpenStreetMap map
- The Rheingauer Rieslingpfad has a yellowit Y on greenem background, orange path.
For more path markings, see here.
- The Rheinsteig-Main path always has one Whiteit R. on blueem background, blue path.
- The Approach of the Rheinsteig have a Whiteit R. on yellowen background, crimson path,
- The former Rheinburgenweg on the right bank of the Rhine has a redit RB on Whiteem background. Some of the trail markings are still there.
- The Rheinhöhenweg on the right bank of the Rhine has a blueit R. on Whiteem background, blue path.
- The Hessenwege have a redit H and > on Whiteem background, blue path.
The way back can be designed differently by combining these parallel paths and additional circular paths. Some circular routes:
- The Rheinsteig round tour Rauentahler Spange has a Whiteit R. on redon the background, purple path.
getting there
hike
Wicker - Hochheim - Mainz-Kastel: 6 km
- Wicker, district of Flörsheim am Main
- Hochheim
- Mainz-Kostheim, District of Wiesbaden
- Mainz-Kastel across from Mainz
Wiesbaden-Schierstein - Frauenstein - Rauenthal: 16 km
The Mainz-Kastel section via Wiesbaden-Biebrich to Wiesbaden-Schierstein is interrupted. The gap is closed by Hessenweg 7, whose section goes along the banks of the Rhine and not past vineyards.
- Wiesbaden-Schierstein
- Nürnberger Hof restaurant
- Goethestein
- Frauenstein
- Martinsthal (district of Eltville)
- Rauenthal (district of Eltville)
Branch: Eltville - Niederwalluf - Frauenstein: 7 km
Between Niederwalluf and Eltville on the Rhine it goes on the towpath through the floodplain area along the Rhine.
Rauenthal - Kiedrich - Eberbach Monastery
- Rauenthal
- Kiedrich
- Eberbach Monastery
Branch: Eltville - Rauenthal - Kiedrich: 7 km
Branch: Eltville - Kiedrich
This path is an imposition. It runs alongside the busy road. There is a wonderful path to the east through the vineyards. Bus 172 runs every hour on this route.
Eberbach Monastery - Kühnsmühle - Vollrads Castle - Winkel: 10 km
- Toad tree
- Philippsburg hunting lodge
- Kühnsmühle
- Vollrads Castle
- angle
Alternative route: Kiedrich - Hallgarten - Schloss Vollrads - Winkel: 9 km
- Kierich
- Juniper yard
- Domain Steinbach
- Domain Neuhof
- Leimersbach
- Hallgarten (south edge)
- Path chapel "Maria Hilf"
- Water retention basin
- Gottesthaler mill
- Vollrads Castle
- angle
Winkel - Geisenheim - Rüdesheim: 10 km
Rüdesheim - Assmannshausen: 5 km
- Rudesheim
- Ehrenfels castle ruins
- Assmannshausen
Johannisberg - Marienthal - Nothgottes - St. Hildegard Abbey: 15 km
- Johannisberg Castle
- Marienberg Monastery
- God of distress
- St. Hildegard Abbey
- youth hostel
- Ehrenfels castle ruins
- Assmannshausen
Alternative route: Rüdesheim - Aulhausen - Lorch: 14 km
Assmannshausen circular hiking trail: 6 km
Not suitable for prams.
- Assmannshausen
- Hell Valley
- Aulhausen
- Bacharach head
- Hell Mountain
- Assmannshausen
Assmannhausen - Lorch: 12.5 km
- Assmannhausen
- Red wine arbor
- Bodental
From the Bodental there are two ways to Lorch. Already before that it bends Rheinsteig from, which is just running on an even higher level.
- Bächergrund
- Kapellenberg
- Schlossberg
- Branch to Lorch train station
Lorch - Kaub: 8.5 km
- Nollig castle ruins
- -> Clemens Chapel
- Lorchhausen
- Niedertal
- Chew
security
trips
Rheinsteig until after Bonn
literature
Web links
- www.rheingau.de
- Rheingau-Taunus district with map excerpts
