City of Abenberg – Aurach Bridge loop from Abenberger Wald
City of Abenberg – Aurach Bridge loop from Abenberger Wald
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City of Abenberg – Aurach Bridge loop from Abenberger Wald
01:52
30.5km
250m
Mountain biking
Easy mountain bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: October 1, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 11.8 km for 290 m
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
186 m
Maria Hilf Wayside Chapel
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878 m
City of Abenberg
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In 1236 the town and castle came through marriage to the Hohenzollerns, the then burgraves of Nuremberg (see also Konrad IV.), after the male line of the Abenbergs had died out with Count Friedrich II. Between 1230 and 1250, the people of Nuremberg replaced the Salian-era building with a partially new building, which they hardly ever used. For this purpose, the circular wall was demolished and the main castle expanded to twice its size. The front was thickened and the fortified castle gate was built on the south-east corner. The ring wall built at that time is the oldest preserved part of the castle.
In 1296 the castle was sold to the Prince Bishopric of Eichstätt, which set up a caretaker office there and reinforced the weakly fortified north-west corner with a square tower.
In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries a number of alterations were made. From 1496, the eastern front was provided with new nursing buildings. New farm buildings were built inside the castle. In the period that followed, the castle fell into disrepair. In 1799 the St. Otmar's Chapel collapsed.
In 1806, the Kingdom of Bavaria came into possession of the castle through secularization and sold it to Max Freiherr von Welden to be demolished. It was not until 1875 that the Munich art dealer K. J. Zwerschina acquired Abenberg Castle and saved the castle from total destruction. He rebuilt some towers, such as the 33 meter high Luginsland. The next owner, the Kammersänger Anton Schott, continued Zwerschina's work between 1881 and 1913. After that, however, the castle fell into disrepair again.
The city of Abenberg first acquired half of the castle in 1982 and the rest in 1984. In order to be able to finance renovation and maintenance, on March 8, 1986, together with the district of Roth and the district of Middle Franconia, it founded the Abenberg Castle special purpose association, which took over the castle as the owner . The aim was to preserve the monument and to revitalize it culturally. An operating concept was developed in the form of a museum and a restaurant.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Abenberg
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2.16 km
View of Abenberg Castle
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7.67 km
Jakobus Chapel in Heidenberg
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7.67 km
Rugstein (Resting Stone)
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12.7 km
Aurach Bridge
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24.9 km
View of Abenberg Castle
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27.7 km
Memorial Chapel Obersteinbach ob Gmünd
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After the Catholic residents refused to ring the bells for the Protestant dead, a bell foundation association was founded on February 17, 1925, to which all residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination belonged, in order to build their own bell tower. In the same year, a memorial chapel for the fallen of the First World War was finally built and inaugurated on July 12. The architect was a Mr. Ritter from Nuremberg. The association still bears the costs of any repairs that are required. The chapel was last extensively renovated in 2000.
The memorial chapel is a rectangular sandstone block building with a hipped roof and a centrally mounted ridge turret. The south and north sides measure around 7 meters, the east and west sides around 5 meters. The height is 7.50 meters without the turret, and about 10 meters with the turret. On the west side is the pointed arch portal, to the left and right of it are two small rectangular windows. On the south and north sides there is an axis with pointed arch windows. The tower with clock faces on the south and north sides and pointed arch sound holes on the west and east sides ends with a pyramid roof, on which a weather vane was subsequently placed.
The chapel has seating for 40 people. An evening service is usually held once a month.
Source Wikipedia
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30.5 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
13.5 km
8.81 km
4.29 km
3.12 km
437 m
218 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
17.1 km
9.04 km
2.75 km
1.53 km
< 100 m
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