A route that was inaugurated on June 15, 2007 invites you to discover the history of the Salians. As a joint project of the cities Bad Dürkheim, Frankenthal, Speyer and Worms as well as the district of Bad Dürkheim and the Rhine-Palatinate district, the 120 km long Salier cycle path was developed. A corresponding flyer provides further information.
Route profile
- Length: 120 km
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- Suitable bike: Touring bike with gear shift
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The Salier cycle path connects to the existing Kaiser-Konrad cycle path, which has already connected the cities of Bad Dürkheim and Speyer. From Speyer it goes via Schifferstadt, Dannstadt-Schauernheim to Birkenheide / Maxdorf. Once there, you can continue to Bad Dürkheim and cycle back to Speyer via the Kaiser-Konrad-Rad-Route. This partial circuit has a length of about 65.5 km.
It has the shape of an eight, and due to the intersection at the level of Birkenheide / Maxdorf, Lambsheim there are two sections available, which can also be cycled independently of each other and are suitable for shorter bike tours. This also gives you the option of continuing from Birkenheide / Maxdorf via Lambsheim to Frankenthal-Flomersheim, Frankenthal, Frankenthal-Mörsch past the Roxheimer Altrhein to Worms.
In Worms, the Salier cycle path runs past St. Peter's Cathedral. The Worms Cathedral, located on the highest point of the Worms city center, is the most important building of the Worms Romanesque and closely associated with the name of Bishop Burchard. Passing the Luther monument, it leads over the railway line and arrives at the Pfrimm. Together with the Hiwwel route to Pfeddersheim, there it branches off to the south, crosses the Barbarossa cycle path at Heppenheim, and comes back to Frankenthal via Dirmstein and Lambsheim. This partial circular route has a length of 54.4 km. In Frankenthal, the Salier cycle path runs as follows: Connection to the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis after the Lambsheimer Weiher on the K 6 in the direction of Flomersheim . Through Flomersheim on the main road to Frankenthal to the Westring. After the Westring over the Carl-Benz-Straße, Industriestraße, K 2 past the waterworks north to Mörsch. In Mörsch over the street Am Nussbaum, Kastanienweg, past the cemetery to the allotment gardens. Keep left there and take the agricultural paths in the direction of Roxheimer Altrhein to the area of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis.
There is a special feature on the Frankenthal route. From the main route it is possible to make a detour to the Frankenthal city center. The inner city junctions are coming from Flomersheim at Carl-Bosch-Ring / Flomersheimer Strasse over the Hans-Kopp-Brücke, Mahlastrasse, Speyerer Strasse into the center. Coming from Mörsch, the downtown branch on Westring / Lambsheimer Straße begins through the underpass at the train station into the center. The cyclist can drive the pedestrian zone on the bypass route or push his bike through the pedestrian zone so as not to miss the sights in the city center. Here is the former sugar factory site, today with the CongressForum, music school, adult education center and children's and youth office? Century, the baroque Trinity Church and the Erkenbert Museum with its valuable porcelain collection of the former electoral manufactory from the 18th century.
The total route of the Salier cycle path is approx. 120 km in length.
THEME Salier
The family of the Dukes of the Salians, who established the German kings between 1024 and 1125, is historically closely connected to the area around Worms, Speyer and Bad Dürkheim. The family's main property has been here since before 1000, from here their extensive rule over forests, castles, monasteries, briefly over the country and people, in the region developed. Worms Cathedral became the first family burial place as early as the 10th century. a very unusual process at the time. The Salier graves were uncovered in 1906 and are accessible. At the beginning of the takeover of the royal rule, Konrad II, the first Salian on the German royal throne, had Limburg Castle converted into a Benedictine monastery, which was designed as the family monastery. Almost at the same time, the expansion of the still very modest Speyer Cathedral began. In the course of the further 11th century this was to become the burial place of the now royal family. The Salians brought the city of Speyer to a heyday with the monumental cathedral, consecrated in 1111, so that the city could be referred to as the 'metropolis Germaniae' around 1125. The Salians have significantly influenced the face of the landscape in the triangle of cities and left many traces.
