The best traffic-free bike rides around Weihenzell

A 2 km long, pleasant stretch of road.

Neumühle is a former half-timbered mill from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Between Großhaslach and Adelmannssitz you pass the Obere Mühle and the Untermühle.

Cycle path along the busy federal highway (B13). The quality of the cycle path isn't the best anymore, but it's still better than the main road.

The town was probably founded around 800. In a document that was written between 1132 and 1150, the sale of the goods of the Bamberg canon "Volmar in Tefersendorf" in Ketteldorf to the Heilsbronn monastery was confirmed. This is also the first documented mention of the place.[5] The defining word of the place name is the Slavic personal name Dobriš. In 1339, the brothers Conradt and Burkhard Pfefferbalg sold land in "Teferßdorf" to the Heilsbronn monastery, which they had received from Count Gottfried von Hohenlohe.[6] From 1566 to 1818, the Nuremberg patrician Scheurl had a seat in the town. Towards the end of the 18th century, there were eleven properties in Defersdorf (castle, four farms, a half-farm, two estates, a small farm, a brickworks). The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach judgeship of Roßtal. The Scheurl von Defersdorf family had the village and community authority as well as the manorial authority over all properties.[7] In 1799 there were still eleven properties in the town.[8] From 1797 to 1808 the town was under the jurisdiction of the Cadolzburg Justice and Chamber Office. As part of the municipal edict, Defersdorf was assigned to the tax district of Großweismannsdorf, which was formed in 1808, and to the rural community of Großweismannsdorf, which was founded in the same year. The entire town was under the voluntary jurisdiction of the Defersdorf Patrimonial Court until 1848.[9] As part of the regional reform in Bavaria, Defersdorf was incorporated into Roßtal on May 1, 1978. Source: Wikipedia

The view from the ruins is worth it. And so is the climb up there.

The first settlers appeared around the 6th/7th century AD in the broad Rezat and Zailach valleys and on the eastern hills, which offered them an ideal location. The place was first mentioned as "Lerenburen" in a document that was written between 1057 and 1075. The root word is Old High German bûr (house), the defining word lāre, leāre (empty, bar). This explains the poorly furnished dwellings.[6] In the years 1265, 1268, 1311, 1387 the place was mentioned as "Lerpur", in 1282, 1291, 1317, 1351, 1407 and around 1434 in the form "Lerbawr, Lerpaur", and only in 1465 as "Lerperg".[7] In 1059 the St. Margaret Church was built as a church and fortress for the inhabitants. The following centuries were marked by prosperity, which was based on the fact that the church with its numerous relics was a place of pilgrimage. The Thirty Years' War and the plague hit Lehrberg hard. In the 16-point report of the Ansbach district office from 1684, 82 teams were recorded for Lehrberg: 45 properties were under the jurisdiction of the Hofkastenamt Ansbach, 36 properties under the Hochstift Eichstätt and 1 property under the Rittergut Trautskirchen. The high court and the village and community authority was exercised by the Brandenburg-Ansbach Hofkastenamt Ansbach.[8] Towards the end of the 18th century, Lehrberg formed a real community consisting of 110 properties with Ziegelhütte, Fritz-, Kohl-, Pulver- and Seemühle. The high court exercised the Hofkastenamt Ansbach. The village and community authority was held jointly by the Eichstätt and Ansbach Vogtamt Lehrberg Source: Wikipedia

A small road between the fields. The surface is easy to drive on and the road is varied - it's a pleasure to be on the road here