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Watterbacher House Forest Museum – Plateau Near Preunschen loop from Kirchzell

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Watterbacher House Forest Museum – Plateau Near Preunschen loop from Kirchzell

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Watterbacher House Forest Museum – Plateau Near Preunschen loop from Kirchzell

04:15

14.6km

370m

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: June 14, 2026

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Naturpark Bayerischer Odenwald

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1.05 km

Historic Town Hall Kirchzell

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a historic town hall in the middle of Kirchzell

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5.38 km

Smart Pfad Odenwald: Viewing platform at Wildenburg Castle

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Well done! The parents rest, the kids are busy and playfully learn something about the forest and nature. TOP!

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5.58 km

Former rock cellar near Wildenburg Castle

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If you are at the castle anyway, you should definitely look at this small cave in the rock massif

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6.54 km

Watterbacher House Forest Museum

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The Watterbacher Haus is the oldest surviving farmhouse in the Odenwald. The building was completed in 1475 and now houses a museum. There you can find out more about the …

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7.34 km

Plateau Near Preunschen

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beautiful scenery - and lots of it...

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7.53 km

Bench with a view of the Preunschen Plateau

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This bench is located just outside of Preunschen on the Nibelungensteig. Here you can enjoy the peace and quiet and have a good view of the plateau, meadows and forests.

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11.6 km

St. Barbara Church Ottorfszell

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beautiful church in Ottorfszell

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12.7 km

Gabelbach Bridge and Picnic Area

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You can endure it here 😴

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14.6 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.35 km

3.25 km

1.26 km

754 m

Surfaces

6.01 km

4.30 km

2.32 km

1.94 km

< 100 m

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Highest point (470 m)

Lowest point (190 m)

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Comments

September 3, 2023,Wildenburg-Runde von Kirchzell im wunderschönen Odenwald

You can enjoy pure nature on this hiking trail in the Bavarian part of the Odenwald. The Wildenburg castle ruins, as well as a forest museum (Watterbacher Haus) in Preunschen and lots of beautiful panoramic views. Some stone paths and downhill paths are tough, so I would upgrade the easy tour to medium difficulty. After the tour, we lingered in …

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September 4, 2022,🏰 Wildenburg Runde 🌞

Today we went to Kirchzell near Amorbach; a pretty little town in the Bavarian Odenwald. From 🅿️ you first go through the village out into the field 🐄 past many 🍎🍏 trees through the valley. Later steeply uphill to the Wildenburg castle ruins, which you should definitely take a closer look at 🏰👍😃. Then you pass the Watterbacher Haus, a …

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September 25, 2021,Wildenburg-Runde von Kirchzell bei Amorbach

A beautiful valley, a great castle, otherwise over woods and fields and through villages. A rest area / bench between the forest museum and Ottorfszell would not be bad. While before and after these are abundant, they are entirely absent on this long stretch. There are almost no panoramic views from above on this tour. The highlight is the castle. …

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February 11, 2024,Wildenburg-Runde

Nice tour, to one of the most beautiful ruins in Odw., including a cave tour.
instagram.com/whisky_and_a_hat

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March 30, 2025,Wildenburg-Runde (K5)

A very nice hike from Kirchzell to Wildenburg, to Preunschen, down to Ottorfszell, and back again. A visit to the castle ruins and the "Watterbacher Haus" forest museum in Preunschen is definitely worth it.

Komoot surprisingly declared my hike over after 3 km. 😀
These are missing from the start.

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August 5, 2025,Dschungelfeste im Odenwald

Deep in the Odenwald, where only forests and lonely valleys can be expected, it is precisely here that one of the most important castles of the Hohenstaufen period is hidden. Named Wildenberg after the boldly protruding rocky spur, it can be found behind dense vegetation south of Kirchzell in the Mudau Valley. As romantic as this jungle fortress appears, it …

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July 31, 2021,Auf Parzivals Spuren

An Odenwald tour to the Wildenberg ruins, which Wolfram von Eschenbach may have inspired to create the Grail Castle.

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July 31, 2021,Zur Burg Wildenberg

Along the "K5" hiking trail from Kirchzell around the Preunscher Berg to the Wildenberg ruins and back.
The ruin was of course something for me as an explorer and is really worth seeing. 🤓 Above all, freely accessible and considerably large.
On the way there was of course more to see: a squirrel that fell up a tree, deer that …

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Watterbacher House Forest Museum – Plateau Near Preunschen loop from Kirchzell

Historic Town Hall Kirchzell

Smart Pfad Odenwald: Viewing platform at Wildenburg Castle

Former rock cellar near Wildenburg Castle

Watterbacher House Forest Museum

Plateau Near Preunschen

Bench with a view of the Preunschen Plateau

St. Barbara Church Ottorfszell

Gabelbach Bridge and Picnic Area

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