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The Swabian Alb Northern Edge Trail (Hauptwanderweg 1, HW 1), also Albsteig, is a long-distance hiking trail of the Swabian Alb Association along the north side of the Swabian Alb. Depending on the division, it leads in 16 or 25 daily stages over a total of 365 kilometers from Donauwörth to Tuttlingen and follows the night eaves. As a result, it also touches the Swabian Alb biosphere area of UNESCO.
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As a signpost, the path is marked with a red triangle, the tip of which points towards Tuttlingen. The Swabian-Alb-Südrand-Weg runs parallel to this.
The quality path is from Swabian Alb Association to chat. The Swabian Alb North Edge Trail was certified on September 2, 2009 by the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations as a quality trail for Wanderable Germany. Since 2012 it has been marketed as Albsteig by the Top Trails of Germany association.
in the Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein the journeyman shoemaker Seppe goes on a journey, he wants to first of all ... to Ulm. From the Bempflinger Höhe he sees the Alb as a wondrous blue wall.
preparation
getting there
Here we go/...
- 1 Donauwörth
- 2 Wörnitzstein - 3 Upper rice mill - 4 Harburg Castle (17 km)
- Harburg Castle - Bockberg - Eisbrunn (Harburg) - 5 Mönchsdeggingen (12 km)
- Mönchsdeggingen - 6 Karlshof (Hohenaltheim) - 7 Christmas garden - 8 Schweindorf (Neresheim) (15 km)
- Schweindorf - 9 Ear apex - 10 Schloßberg (Bopfingen) - 11 Bopfingen
(12 km)
- Bopfingen - 12 Jewish cemetery (Aufhausen) - animal stone - 13 Shells (11 km)
- Hülen - Grünenberg - 14 White cooker (cooker origin) - 15 Undercooking (17 km)
- Unterochen - Aalbäumle - 16 Volkmarsberg - 17 Lauterburg (Essingen) - 18 Rosenstein (mountain) - 19 Heubach
(22 km)
- Heubach - Bargau Cross - Lützelalb - 20 Weißenstein (Lauterstein)
(15 km)
- Weißenstein - 21 Messelstein - 22 Kuchalb (Donzdorf)
(12 km)
- Kuchalb - 23 Went to the Fils - Burren - 24 Wasserberg (Swabian Alb) (11 km)
- Wasserberg - 25 Fox Corner - 26 Kornberg (Gruibingen) - 27 Gruibingen (12.5 km)
- Gruibingen - 28 Bossler - Eckhöfe (8 km)
- Corner Courtyards - 29 Reußenstein ruins - 30 Randecker Maar - 31 Breitenstein (Swabian Alb) - 32 Diepoldsburg ruin - 33 Teck Castle (17 km)
- Teck Castle - 34 Owen
- 35 Erkenbrechtsweiler - 36 Hohenneuffen Castle (11.5 km)
- Hohenneuffen Castle - Burrenhof - 37 Pods - 38 Bad Urach
(10 km)
- Bad Urach - rock slides - 39 Hohe Warte (Swabian Alb) - 40 Eningen under Achalm (11 km)
- Eningen under Achalm - 41 Stahleck Castle (Lichtenstein) - 42 Holzelfingen (13 km)
- Holzelfingen - 43 Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg) - 44 Fog cave - 45 Genkingen
- 46 Roßberg (Swabian Alb) (19 km)
- Rossberg - 47 Bolberg - Riedernberg - 48 Talheim (Mössingen) (12 km)
- Talheim - 49 Deer head - 50 Dreifürstenstein - 51 Jungingen (18 km)
- Jungingen - High Mountain - 52 Raichberg (9 km)
- Raichberg - 53 Sting - 54 Bollat - 55 Burgfelden - 56 Schalksburg - 57 Running on the Eyach (19 km)
- Running on the Eyach - 58 Punch horn - perforated stone - 59 Plettenberg (mountain) - 60 Ratshausen (17 km)
- Ratshausen - 61 Oberhohenberg - 62 Lemberg (Swabian Alb) - 63 Gosheim - 64 Cliff corner (17 km)
- Cliff corner - 65 Dreifaltigkeitsberg (Swabian Alb) - 66 Russberg (Rietheim-Weilheim) - 67 Tuttlingen
(19 km)
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accommodation
Practical advice
security
literature
Web links
- https://www.schwaebischealb.de/wandern/albsteig - Official website of the Swabian Alb North Edge Trail
- https://wege.albverein.net/hauptwanderwege/hw1/