Eduard-Mörike-Rundweg

Eduard Mörike lived in Bad Mergentheim from 1844 to 1851. During this time, he wrote "Idylle vom Bodensee" and new poems. In 1851, Mörike married the officer's daughter Margarethe Speeth in the castle church. A special Mörike cabinet in the Deutschordensmuseum commemorates this time. You can also visit the grave of his daughter Marie in the old cemetery.

The start and finish of the circular route is the market square. The house at Marktplatz 7 is where Mörike lived for almost his entire time in Bad Mergentheim. From from here he took long walks and hikes in the surrounding area. surrounding area. Simply follow the blue ribbon with its eight information boards.

We walk past the twin houses on the left and turn into Mühlwehrstraße. At the end of the road, we cross the the traffic circle and continue our walk in the direction of Boxberger Straße slightly uphill. The path leads us to Siebenwindenweg, into which we turn left. which we turn left.

The road leads us out of the residential area out to the edge of the forest. We pass stations 2 and 3 of the path and leave the path and take in the poetry. At station 4, we continue straight ahead and see the village of Althausen in the valley to our left. The Blue Ribbon of the Eduard Mörike Circular Trail on the right-hand side of the path right-hand side of the path, which leads us through dense bushes to Station 5. . There is an old quarry where the poet collected fossils (so-called petrefacts)

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We then walk back to back to station 4 and walk down into the valley to the right. At the upper edge of the Bad Mergentheim district of Neunkirchen, we walk between two between two properties to the road "Zum Wald" and follow it to the left. to the left.

This leads us to Panoramastrasse, on which we turn also to the left until we reach a sharp right-hand bend. Here we continue downhill on the left-hand side via steps. The The steps end at the end of Kirchbergstraße, which we follow to the right until we follow it to a crossroads

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Here we turn left across the street street "Zum Käpelle", then turn left again past station 6 into the town town center, where we reach Hans-Konrad-Geyer-Platz and turn right again. turn right again. Before reaching the Althäuser Bach stream, we come to the "Zur Mühle" street, into which we turn left.

After we cross a bridge over the Wachbach, where station 7 is located, we reach an information we reach an information board about the Romantic Road. Now we continue to the left. Passing under a road bridge cross the stream a second time and then walk to the right. to the right.

A little later, we see a footbridge on the right-hand side pedestrian bridge on the right, over which we cross the stream again. We then follow the right bank of the stream downstream past Station 8 until we reach Probsteistraße, which leads us to the right to the street "Mittlerer Graben".

Above left to the traffic circle, cross the road again via the pedestrian crossing and again via the crosswalk and walk through Mühlwehrstraße past the Torwachhaus back to the starting point of the hike at the old town hall.