The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Illesheim
Illesheim’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments around Illesheim. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Illesheim. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: December 16, 2025
Source of the Altmühl (Hornauer Pond)
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The Hornauer Weiher, which is considered the official source of the Altmühl, is far away from traffic, quietly on the outskirts. Here you can relax, bathe and grill.
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Hirschteich (Altmühl spring)
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Even the oldest maps show the area around the Burgbernheim deer pond as the origin of the Altmühl. In 1904 the Royal Bavarian Hydrotechnical Bureau in Munich decided that the …
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Source of the Altmühl
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The Erlach settlement lies between the deer pond and the Hornauer Weiher. The second of the three Altmühl springs is located a little east of it, on the site of a secluded homestead.
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War Memorial on Kapellenberg
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The memorial was erected in 1923/24 in memory of the fallen soldiers from Burgbernheim.
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Petersberg Nature Trail
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There is also a summit cross on the Petersberg. At the top there is an information board and right next to it there is a box where the summit book …
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