Covered Wooden Bridge at Heinzenmühle

Attention danger to life! Unfortunately, one of the most beautiful hiking trails I know was destroyed by a large Jagst flood. The path was either buried in places and / or blocked by fallen trees. In the course of the trail was washed away completely. The way is absolutely no longer walkable, or no longer available! Complete destruction! As of: 19.06.2016

Below Crailsheim, the Jagst reaches the Muschelkalk of the Hohenlohe plain at the Heldenmühle. From here, the character of the valley changes fundamentally. The river digs deep into the Hohenlohe plain and forms bizarre Talmäander. A section that measures just over 8 km as the crow flies, is traversed by her on a more than twice as long flow. The meandering meandering of the river can hardly be practiced there because of the higher gradient and the narrowness of the valley floor. The floodplain is extremely narrow. There is no valley road, for villages or even towns, the valley is certainly too narrow. Only mills can be found here, which can only be reached from the plateau via steep climbs. Most are shut down today, some announce only wall remains, remaining mill channels and weirs or old names. Mills were very common in this section, since the gradient of about three and a half per thousand [7] here is relatively large. While one is accustomed to a change of quiet and fast-flowing sections of many other areas, here you can find miles of fast-flowing sections. The Jagst throws itself in tight turns alternately on the right and left-side impact slopes, which are particularly steep, difficult to access, partly rocky and accommodate many rare animal and plant species. In some places there are also larger rock faces, for instance below the Barenhalder mill, at the Kernmühle or Baierlesstein and at the Bärenstein between the Heinzenmühle and Lobenhausen.

In the area of ​​the core mill, the Jagst has almost no foothills, the steep cliff slopes emerge almost immediately. Further down the valley to about Lobenhausen offers the Aue only space for very narrow forest or meadow strip; Often the forest reaches down to the river from both sides. The usually very small height difference between the river and the river is noticeable, which comes much closer to the natural state than the sometimes quite high bank slopes on the lower reaches. Above the Heinzenmühle flows the Gronach, whose valley below the Gröninger hammer mill is designed as a remarkable gorge. For the eyes and ear disturbs in this area the Federal Highway 6, which crosses the Gronachschlucht and shortly afterwards the Jagsttal in a little landscape-friendly way. But already after the next river loop one does not consciously perceive the troublemaker. Near the Bärenstein, the Jagst forks into two large arms and forms a larger and several small islands.