Erlebnistour 9: Durchs Wachbach- und Vorbachtal

This tour covers 47 km and takes you past numerous cultural highlights!

Weikersheim in particular is ideal for a long break. Here you can stop for a bite to eat on the historic market square and enjoy the view of the castle. If you are curious, you can also visit the castle and the adjoining castle park. There is even an alchemy museum to marvel at.

In Bad Mergentheim, you can once again visit the Deutschordensmuseum as a cultural enrichment or the Solymar Therme as a relaxing end to the tour. In Markelsheim there is the winegrowers' cooperative.

Route description:

Bad Mergentheim - Wachbach (6 km)

Wachbach - Hachtel - Rot (6 km)

Rot - Herbsthausen - Adolzhausen - Niederstetten (9 km)

Niederstetten - Vorbachzimmern - Laudenbach - Weikersheim (11 km)

Weikersheim - Elpersheim - Markelsheim - Igersheim - Bad Mergentheim (15 km)

Sights and leisure activities:

Bad Mergentheim: Residential palace, Deutschordensmuseum, spa and palace park, historic market square, cultural forum, Solymar Therme, heated outdoor pool, minigolf, wildlife park, golf course

Wachbach: castle, outdoor pool

Hachtel: Ottmar Mergenthaler Museum (inventor of the line casting machine)

Herbsthausen: Herbsthäuser brewery

Adolzhausen: former fortified church

Niederstetten: Holdingbergstetten Castle with church, library with exhibition on airship captain Albert Sammt, municipal museum of local history, town hall, town wall. Local history museum, town hall, remains of the town wall and defense towers, St. Jakob's Church, frescoes in the cemetery chapel

Weikersheim: Tauberland village museum, Renaissance castle with alchemy museum, castle park and orangery, historic market square, planet trail, indoor swimming pool, observatory

Markelsheim: winegrowers' cooperative, educational wine trail, mountain church

Igersheim: Neuhaus Castle, St. Michael's Church (1880), local history museum in the Kulturhaus