Wachenburg Castle – View of Windeck Castle loop from Birkenau

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Wachenburg Castle – View of Windeck Castle loop from Birkenau

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Wachenburg Castle – View of Windeck Castle loop from Birkenau

02:59

9.94km

290m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 1, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

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Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald

Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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4.06 km

Wachenburg Castle

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The best preserved castle on the Burgensteig Bergstraße is a very young building. The Wachenburg was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Weinheim Senior Convent, an …

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4.07 km

View of Weinheim

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Views of Weinheim are always particularly beautiful

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4.75 km

Trail to Wachenburg

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Short but nice climb to the castle

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5.27 km

View of Windeck Castle

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Windeck Castle can be seen from afar

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5.92 km

Windeck Castle Ruins

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The castle ruins are a beautiful hiking and walking destination with refreshment stops. It offers a wonderful view over Weinheim and the Rhine Valley, in good weather up to the …

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8.61 km

Weschnitz River at Fuchs'che Mühle

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This way there are many beautiful views of the Weschnitz to see, but also many rear views of "lost places"

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8.64 km

Obere Fuchs'sche Mühle and Mühlengarten

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The hiking trail (e.g. Burgensteig) runs here on a small path directly behind the Fuchs'sche Mühle along the Weschnitz. A small bridge takes you directly to the Mühlengarten, a beautiful …

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9.03 km

Old Spring

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the old spring
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9.94 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.97 km

2.15 km

1.85 km

1.50 km

443 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

3.65 km

2.49 km

1.85 km

1.54 km

369 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (330 m)

Lowest point (110 m)

Weather

Tuesday 13 October

19°C

8°C

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Comments

October 26, 2021,Wanderung nach Burgruine Windeck

260 meters in altitude, that's easy. Friends, these vertical meters were tough and it was so steep that you need really good shoes and tight calves. It's full through the forest and sometimes the paths are not that easy to see.

The tour starts through the place that I liked very much. Parking is "manageable".

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October 30, 2021,Eingenebelt im Odenwald 😱🌫 - Grenzgänger-Tour in Weinheim

Odenwald is currently our hood 😎😂 very beautiful region in which some castles and palaces 🏰 still want to be visited 🤷‍♂️ and so we ended up in Weinheim today and I was even about to WEINE 😭😂

On the way to the starting point pure sun 🌞 ... arrived in Weinheim ... fog of horror 😱 (you can see …

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