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Overall, this is a wonderful, easy bike tour. Highlights include the beautiful, unspoiled Laber Valley, the rock cellars along the trail, and the Rose Cemetery in Dietkirchen.

The beginnings of the pilgrimage to the Mariahilfberg date back to the late 17th century. At that time there was a small burial chapel modeled on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and a Way of the Cross. A wooden Lady Chapel was built in 1687 very close to the Calvary. Her most valuable jewelry was a copy of a famous painting of the Virgin Mary by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Today's pilgrimage church was built between 1718 and 1727 as one of five baroque Marian shrines in western Upper Palatinate. The richly decorated baroque high altar by Johann Ulrich Wiest contains the famous miraculous image of the Virgin and Child, which is deeply revered to this day.

Lots of rock cellars. Is beer stored there? 😏

The Buch caves, also known as silver sand caves, were used to extract sand and reach deeper into the slope than it appears from the outside.

From nordbayern.de: The beautiful natural stratified spring emerges from the water-retaining stratum of the Opalinus Clay in the Brown Jura (Dogger). Erosion has washed out a small 'cave' in the overlying iron sandstone. Here and at the crack in the slope, the yellow-colored layers and red-brown iron deposits are clearly visible."

The Catholic pilgrimage church “Maria Hilf” is located on the Mariahilfberg high above Neumarkt. The climb over the Stations of the Cross is rewarded with a beautiful view.

The rock cellars were carved into the soft sandstone rock

Sandstone rock cellar between Niederhofen and Dietkirchen on the Black Laber cycle path