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Jutta went for a hike
August 22, 2026 at 11:30
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August 21, 2026 at 07:43
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August 21, 2026
Although the thermometer doesn't even show 20° C, the air is stuffy and muggy, not a breath of wind sweeps through the old town alleys of Creglingen. And it becomes even more oppressive as soon as you leave the town, in the valley of the Herrgottsbach, which flows into the Tauber in the town. This valley
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Jutta went for a hike
August 20, 2026 at 07:52
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August 20, 2026
At the start of the stage, the sky is adorned with heavy clouds; good for the land, bad for hikers… but well, let's see…
From the train station in Weikersheim, it first goes back to the hiking trail, which is reached again at the roundabout on the L 1001. Partly on roads, partly on footpaths and field
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August 19, 2026 at 08:42
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August 19, 2026
Der erste Schauer legt schon vor Etappenbeginn los, als die Westfrankenbahn langsam im Bahnhof von Bad Mergentheim einrollt. Und er ist auch schon wieder vorbei, noch bevor die Altstadt erreicht ist. Doch eines ist klar: Es wird heute nicht der letzte Schauer gewesen sein.
Die Altstadt kommt mal mittelalterlich
Jutta went for a hike
August 18, 2026 at 07:26
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August 18, 2026
The rain begins at the same time as the start of the stage. No dripping, no drizzle, no, it's proper rain. But well, the earth needs it, and we're not made of sugar, are we?? So, let's go!
Past the two inns and St. Kilian's Church in Beckstein, you quickly head out into the vineyards and down to the Benz
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Jutta went for a hike
August 17, 2026 at 08:04
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August 17, 2026
Unser E 8 hat wieder einmal gerufen, dieses Mal von Süden her. Also nichts wie ab ins Taubertal und die nächste Etappe unter die Sohlen genommen.
Am Bahnhof Tauberbischofsheim, wo im vergangenen Jahr die letzte Etappe geendet hatte, beginnt die heutige Etappe. Sofort ist die Wegmarkierung wieder präsent
Jutta went for a hike
August 12, 2026 at 09:21
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August 12, 2026
…to see how it is doing. Because the popular local recreation area of the Mainz residents had already suffered greatly in the drought summers of 2018 to 2020, and as expected, it is also doing very badly at the moment. By the way, I don't mean the general condition of the Lenneberg forest, so to speak
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Jutta went for a hike
August 7, 2026 at 14:59
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August 7, 2026
The name of our new after-work project is programmatic, because we really want to stroll along this hiking trail, even though it is only just under 14 kilometers long in total. The snail's pace will be worth it, because even today we have "stumbled" upon things that we have previously missed at a normal
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August 5, 2026 at 10:08
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August 5, 2026
"Pearl of the Maintal" is what Miltenberg is called, and that is quite justified. No half-timbered house in the old town even remotely resembles another, and yet the elongated ensemble creates an absolutely harmonious picture. The ascent to the Mildenburg is a must, be it for the castle itself, for its
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August 2, 2026 at 11:35
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August 2, 2026
Somehow, this year they seem to keep reappearing, even far from their home base: the lords of Katzenelnbogen. Whether it's on the Riedweg in Dornberg near Groß-Gerau, whether it's on our Mittelrhein-Momente tour in June, or right here in Rüsselsheim, the wealthy noble family has left its mark in many
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Jutta went for a hike
July 27, 2026 at 09:51
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July 27, 2026
It was once again time for a European Cultural Trail, that series of historically accompanied hiking trails within the framework of the Archaeological Spessart Project, University of Würzburg. And because the weather today didn't know whether it wanted to be fish or fowl, whether rain would come again
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July 26, 2026 at 10:08
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July 26, 2026
This was a really nice, small, forest-only tour in the front part of the Pfälzer Wald west of Landau. And yes, the ascent was a bit steeper in a few places, but by no means as steep as the elevation profile suggests.
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July 23, 2026 at 08:11
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July 23, 2026
In Obergrombach, the starting point of this stage of the Riedweg, the bear dances on the weekend... or rather, the knights and damsels, the minnesingers and jugglers. Because there's a castle festival and therefore the whole town is a single parking prohibition zone. But not at the cemetery, right? Well
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July 19, 2026 at 09:42
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July 19, 2026
Today it was time again for a round from an ancient hiking guide. Many of the markings were no longer correct, inns have since closed (such as the Hollermühle), but fundamentally all the described paths were still present and, above all, walkable.
The round begins at the parking lot at the northern edge
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July 18, 2026 at 09:42
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July 18, 2026
A popular excursion destination very close to the district town of Simmern is the Simmersee. Here, east of Simmern, water was diverted from the Simmerbach, creating two lakes: one, inaccessible, as a retreat for flora and fauna, the other as a recreational oasis for young and old. A circular path was
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August 22, 2026
On the Tauber section of the E 8, the long-distance trail offers twice the opportunity to follow a valley path instead of the high-level path. The first section is right at the beginning near Wertheim, the second between Tauberscheckenbach and Rothenburg. The first option was shamefully ignored, but
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