Cycle tour - Around Schwäbisch Hall

This half-day tour can easily be completed in 2 ½ hours, even by inexperienced cyclists, and can ideally be combined with a visit to the Hohenlohe Open-Air Museum in Schwäbisch Hall-Wackershofen.

The continuously asphalted tour starts at the circular building of the New Globe on the Kocher Island Unterwöhrd in the centre of Schwäbisch Hall. On the Kocher-Jagst cycle path, you leave the old town on the left-hand side downstream through the Roter Steg and Mauerstraße past the Solebad (brine baths) out of town.

TIP The brine bath with its healing salt water is a wonderful place to relax after the tour. Open daily, www.solebad-hall.de.

Follow the river meanders for approx. 6 km and cross the river on a cycle path bridge. 500 metres further on, before the village of Untermünkheim, turn left again over a similar bridge to the other side of the river and you will reach Obermünkheim.

From here, please follow the white signs with the green wheel.

In the centre of Obermünkheim, turn left towards Gailenkirchen. A narrow, tarmac farm track winds its way steeply up the Kocher slopes for 1 km to the Hohenlohe plain.

Inexperienced cyclists are advised to tackle this kilometre on foot. The wonderful view of the Kocher valley serves as a consolation. After crossing the western bypass, the route descends to Gailenkirchen. You reach the village by the church and continue straight ahead
continue in the direction of Schwäbisch Hall and then follow the cycle path, which takes you directly to the Hohenloher Freilandmuseum in Wackershofen.

This is definitely worth a visit and is open daily in the summer months. In addition to around 70 original reconstructed buildings, almost extinct old breeds of domestic animals such as the Swabian-Hall pig and craft demonstrations bear witness to the life and work of our ancestors, www.wackershofen.de.

You return to Schwäbisch Hall via the village of Gottwollshausen. When descending the very steep "Gottwollshäuser Steige", please dismount or drive very carefully. This leads down to the busy main road at the "Hotel Hohenlohe".

Use the subway before the main road, turn right and after 150 metres through the Weilertor gate down to the Kocher.