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Natural Monuments

Lower Franconia

Landkreis Würzburg

Volkacher Mainschleife

Natural Monuments

Lower Franconia

Landkreis Würzburg

Volkacher Mainschleife

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Volkacher Mainschleife

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Volkacher Mainschleife

Location: Eisenheim, Landkreis Würzburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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🚴 Rudi Pfeil 🚴

September 15, 2024

Cycling

The Volkacher Mainschleife (formerly known as the Mainschleife) is the largest river meander landscape in Bavaria. It is part of the Main triangle. The Mainschleife forms its own natural spatial unit and has been declared a landscape conservation area and geotope. It is located in the administrative district of Lower Franconia between Kitzingen and Schweinfurt near the eponymous town of Volkach and forms the heart of the Franconian wine-growing region, where a separate area was named after it.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainschleife_(Volkach)

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🚴 Rudi Pfeil 🚴

September 15, 2024

Cycling

The entire Main loop was declared a landscape conservation area on January 31, 1969. The conservation area includes districts in the areas of the municipalities of Wipfeld in the district …

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October 17, 2022

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Nice place on the Main

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Location: Eisenheim, Landkreis Würzburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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