The Main River at Kostheim – Winterhafen Swing Bridge loop from Budenheim

The Main River at Kostheim – Winterhafen Swing Bridge loop from Budenheim

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The Main River at Kostheim – Winterhafen Swing Bridge loop from Budenheim

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34.8km

100m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Great for any fitness level. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 20, 2026

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Includes movable bridges

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After 24.6 km for 39 m

After 27.5 km for 62 m

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4.89 km

View of the Rhine and Rheingau

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Great view from the Schiersteiner bridge on the Rhine and Rheingau

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7.46 km

Biebrich Rhine Cycle Path

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Biebrich is definitely worth recommending. Beautiful castle, good ice cream parlor on the Rhine and a great Greek restaurant. Taverna Vassili. Highly recommended

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12.3 km

Rhine Riverside in Mainz

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Rhine bank on the Wiesbaden side

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12.5 km

Bastion of Schönborn – Kasteler Beach

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She is 42 meters long, seven meters wide and the masts are 28 meters high. She looks like a three-masted ship, but it isn't: the restaurant ship Pieter van Aemstel was never a sailing ship, but used to sail in the North Atlantic as a herring trawler.

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14.1 km

Main estuary

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Opposite the Mainspitze you can watch the hustle and bustle on the Main and Rhine in a relaxed manner. Here is the beginning or end of the Main Cycle Path, depending on the cyclist's destination. For shipping, it is kilometer zero on the Main. Up on the Rhine bridge the trains are moving briskly, down below the fat barges turn from the Rhine into the Main or from the Main into the Rhine, you can feel the pure power of the machines during maneuvers. There is all sorts of activity on the bike and footpaths, it seems as if all the nations of the world are on the move here. And if you want, you can wave to the cyclists on the Mainspitze. A silent reply is certain, as a shadow wave, so to speak.

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15.8 km

The Main River at Kostheim

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Here you come from Kostheim over the Main to Gustavsburg

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24.0 km

View of the confluence of the Main and the Rhine

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But from afar and with sunset mega 💚🤟🦊

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24.6 km

Winterhafen Swing Bridge

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The swing bridge at the Winter Harbor in Mainz was built around 1877 and is therefore one of the oldest swing bridges still in existence. It crosses the Winter Harbor and serves as a link between the old town and the pier on the Victor Hugo bank.

Twelve years after the Winter Harbor opened in 1865, the swing bridge allowed ships to pass through at any water level. After the Rhine bank was expanded, there were two swing bridges in Mainz. The bridge at the customs and inland harbor was demolished after 1945.

The building is a listed building and is considered a cultural monument. The mechanical rotating device of the bridge at the Winter Harbor had not been functional since 1996 and was replaced by a hydraulic device in 2009 because it was at risk of brittle fracture. In addition, yachts will also be able to drive into the Winter Harbor in the future to increase the recreational value of a nearby construction site. The old swing bridge was dismantled on March 20, 2009 with the participation of Riga Mainz. The new swing bridge was manufactured in April of the same year in the workshops of the Wiesbaden company Huhle Stahl- und Metallbau. The new steel structure was assembled on October 29, 2009.[1] The structure is 37.50 meters long, 4.50 meters wide and weighs 54 tons. The old bridge section weighed just 21.5 tons. It is an asymmetrical, two-wing road swing bridge made of riveted steel framework. This means that the appearance of the new bridge will be largely adapted to that of the old bridge. The construction materials meet modern requirements, for example the floor covering is made of aluminum instead of wooden planks as before.

The "king pin" as a pivot point is placed on a sandstone pillar. This part of the mechanism, which is no longer visible, has a diameter of 20 centimeters. The only part of the movement mechanism that can be seen is the running and rolling ring of the swing pillar. The bridge abutments are accentuated by balustrades that end in curved wall sections with stone benches.

Source Wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehbr%C3%BCcke_am_Winterhafen

The beautiful beer garden "Mole" directly at the swing bridge should also be mentioned.

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