Ungeheuersee – View of the Rhine Plain loop from Herxheim am Berg

Hiking trails & Routes

Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate

Palatinate Forest

Landkreis Bad Dürkheim

Weisenheim am Berg

Ungeheuersee – View of the Rhine Plain loop from Herxheim am Berg

Moderate

4.7

(19)

hikers

Ungeheuersee – View of the Rhine Plain loop from Herxheim am Berg

02:18

8.19km

170m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 4, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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480 m

Sommerbach Park

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A wonderful piece of hiking trail. The whole thing is intended more as a spa garden, but the crossing is also very attractive for hikers!

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2.86 km

Bänkeltour Trail, Palatinate Forest-Northern Vosges Biosphere Reserve

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Family-friendly hiking trail with lots of benches to rest

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3.67 km

Ungeheuersee

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The Ungeheuersee is a flat bog pond, which is fed by the Krumbach. As part of the only raised bog in this low mountain range, the lake has been protected …

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3.77 km

Ganerbweg at Ungeheuersee

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On the northern edge of the Lindemannsruhe hiking car park is the plaque with Otto Wilms' "Pälzer Prayer". There the first sign post with a black ax on a yellow …

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3.81 km

Beginn des Naturlehrpfads um den Ungeheuersee

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At this overview board, a nature trail begins (a project by Pfälzerwald-Verein Weisenheim/Berg and POLLICHIA), which you can walk around the Ungeheuersee - preferably clockwise - with the following 6 …

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6.82 km

View of the Palatinate Vineyards

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Wonderful view over the vineyards

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6.88 km

View of the Rhine Plain

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Great view to the Odenwald

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8.19 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.05 km

1.04 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

4.01 km

2.55 km

912 m

724 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 22 October

16°C

8°C

89 %

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Max wind speed: 29.0 km/h

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Comments

October 17, 2023,Ungeheuersee – Runde von Weisenheim am Berg

Finally hiking in the Palatinate again. This time not in the Dahner Felsenland, but further north near Bad Dürkheim. The monster lake piqued our interest and in cool but mostly sunny weather the path led us through the forest up to the lake. However, the dinosaur was not the early monster in the lake, but the word in early Middle …

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