Spitzeichener Tower – ⚔️ Plassenburg Fortress loop from Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg

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Spitzeichener Tower – ⚔️ Plassenburg Fortress loop from Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg

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Spitzeichener Tower – ⚔️ Plassenburg Fortress loop from Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg

02:46

34.6km

530m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 15.6 km for 99 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.44 km

Stone Bridge Over the White Main in Feuln

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Beautiful old bridge! Very nice in Feuln!

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7.52 km

Spitzeichener Tower

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The Spitzeichener Tower stands on the approximately 528-meter-high "Rangen" between Kulmbach and Trebgast. The construction of this stone tower with a wooden roof was initiated by Forestry Director Eduard Schindhelm. …

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15.0 km

View of Plassenburg Castle

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Beautiful view from the beech forest of the castle wall and the Plassenburg. Particularly great at sunset.

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15.6 km

View of Kulmbach from Plassenburg Castle

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Nice view of the city center

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15.7 km

Plassenburg Fortress

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The Plassenburg is a hilltop castle surrounded by fortifications from the Renaissance period above the Upper Franconian town of Kulmbach. As one of the most imposing and largest Renaissance buildings …

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26.3 km

St. Johannes Parish Church Trebgast

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The Lutheran Margraves' Church, together with the historic parsonage and the old ossuary (St. Rochus Chapel from 1400), towers like a small fortress above the village. The ornate stucco ceiling …

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28.3 km

🏊‍ Trebgast Bathing Lake

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Great lake, from 19 o'clock you can take his bike in and it costs no entrance

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31.6 km

Railway Bridge at Schlömen over the White Main

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Trains from Bayreuth via Trebgast to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg still run over the imposing railway bridge near Schlömen.

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34.6 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

14.0 km

12.1 km

3.98 km

2.51 km

1.84 km

224 m

Surfaces

13.5 km

12.0 km

5.15 km

2.87 km

595 m

572 m

Elevation

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Highest point (520 m)

Lowest point (320 m)

Weather

Thursday 12 November

4°C

-2°C

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Expect light wind and shifting conditions.

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Comments

March 10, 2022,Fahrradtour

After the strenuous laps of the last few days, I took the old pedelec out of the garage today and got it ready to ride. On beautiful, dry forest paths to the Plassenburg to have a cappuccino in the castle café. Unfortunately not open yet, so on to the Trebgast bathing lake, where there was not only a good cappuccino, …

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