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Cycling with all your senses on the Swabian Alb
Bike Touring Collection by Schwäbische Alb
9
Tours
35:46 h
329 mi
20,525 ft
Cycling in the Swabian Alb, you’ll cross impressive landscapes, and find inns, huts and restaurants where you can take tasty breaks along the way. A bite to eat and cycling go hand in hand. You’ll breathe in the fresh, high-altitude air and the scent of home cooked dishes. The Swabian Alb is also known for its brewery culture – and good barley juice has quenched many a cyclist's thirst.
You'll find nine Tours in this Collection that take you to the scenic and culinary highlights of the Swabian Alb. The circular Tours are spread across the hills between Stuttgart, Ulm and Donaueschingen. Mountain ranges, forests, culture, bodies of water and a wide variety of places promise pure variety. Cycle through the Schurwald, tackle the heights of the Zollernalb, cycle along the Danube, or explore the rock formations in the Lautertal.
Along the way, you’ll find rest areas where you can enjoy a snack. You’ll discover a delicious selection of regional products in local farm shops. Don't miss out on a visit to one of the many restaurants like the Kronbrauerei Schimpf and Berghütte Kraterblick, or take a guided Tour of the Berg brewery.
With the exception of the GONSO Trail mountain bike Tour, you can cycle all Tours with a normal touring bike – either with or without electric assistance. Most of the starting points are easy to reach by public transport, and a few of the Tours begin at a car park.
However, the most important thing is to start your Tour relaxed and take time for long breaks. Because in the Swabian Alb, you can enjoy cycling with all your senses!
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Tours
- 02:5227.4 mi9.5 mph1,400 ft1,400 ftIntermediateIntermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
The Vesper tour takes you on a medium-sized tour in the southwest of Rottenburg to see the regional grain cultivation and takes you on a journey through time, when 50 years ago hops were still cultivated on a large scale here in the corner. You can confidently leave Vespers at home on this tour, as many…
- 03:2431.7 mi9.3 mph1,950 ft1,950 ftExpertExpert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
This round takes you a little more than 50 kilometers over the ridges of the Schurwald. As the name suggests, this tour mainly goes through beautiful forest. But some culture is also on the program: In the east of Wäschenbeuren, you can look forward to a detour to the laundry castle and in Adelberg you…
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- 04:0335.0 mi8.6 mph2,700 ft2,700 ftExpertExpert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Some portions of the Tour may require you to push your bike.
The mammoth tour goes over the Zollernalb. You collect a few vertical meters, which is why the tour more than deserves its name.
It starts in Balingen at the train station. After you have left the city, you climb up to Zillhausen. Above the village you can enjoy a fantastic view of Balingen and the mountains…
- 03:0926.5 mi8.4 mph2,000 ft2,000 ftExpertExpert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Some portions of the Tour may be unpaved and difficult to ride.
This wonderful cycle tour is peppered with a few meters of altitude and takes you from the Danube Cycle Path near Tuttlingen to the brewery village of Wurmlingen, to the Hohenkarpfen and through the picturesque Krähenbachtal.
You start at Tuttlingen train station, from where you cycle across the Danube…
- 04:0628.7 mi7.0 mph3,325 ft3,325 ftExpertExpert mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.
With the GONSO Trail you can follow in the footsteps of the bike marathon around Albstadt! Crisp climbs and steep descents mix here with overland passages through the wonderful nature of the Swabian Alb. For the ultimate marathon racing feeling, you end up in the bull valley.
The tour begins at the Zollern…
- 07:2871.8 mi9.6 mph4,000 ft4,000 ftExpertExpert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
This 116-kilometer round is the complete, official mountain beer tour that starts in Münsingen. In addition to idyllic valleys, gentle hills, babbling brooks and breathtaking caves, culinary highlights await you in the Swabian Alb. Along the way there are countless rest stops that will spoil you with…
- 03:3733.6 mi9.3 mph2,200 ft2,400 ftExpertExpert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
On the third stage of the Swabian Alb Cycle Path, the route from Heidenheim an der Brenz is quite uphill at the beginning. Surrounded by beautiful forest, you cycle over the Rehberg and then roll down into the Steinheim basin. In Sontheim in the Meteor Crater Museum you can take a break and learn how…
- 03:0827.4 mi8.7 mph1,700 ft1,700 ftExpertExpert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
The starting point of the round tour is at the Heidenheim-Schnaitheim train station. Along the Brenz you leave Schnaitheim and descend over a hill into the Steinheim basin, which was created by a meteorite impact. In Steinheim, it is worth making a detour to the Kraterblick mountain hut, from which you…
- 03:5946.9 mi11.8 mph1,300 ft1,300 ftIntermediateIntermediate e-bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
With a length of over 2,800 kilometers, the Danube is the second longest river in Europe and an important lifeline. In Ulm you can embark on a journey of discovery along the river, which is still very young here, and which you will not soon forget. There are not many inclines to be mastered here, which…
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Collection Stats
- Tours9
- Distance329 mi
- Duration35:46 h
- Elevation20,525 ft
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