Knights' and Romans' Trail - Altmühltal Nature Park

Does anyone actually know why it can be that you walk 100 meters more downhill than uphill on a circular route???

New Year's Eve hike in bright spring weather and full of sunshine

Today I went hiking again in the Altmühltal Nature Park, starting in Titting. The Knights and Romans Trail is one of the loop trails on the Altmühltal Panorama Trail and is my first of these loops. After crossing Titting past the chapel, church and castle, the path goes up the juniper heath on a narrow, steep path, from where there is a great view over Titting and the Anlautertal. Past the Klafferquelle, the path continues over the hill via Emsing to Altdorf, always with beautiful views of the valley. In Altdorf we change sides of the valley and climb steeply uphill to the Brunneck ruins, also with a wonderful view of the landscape. After visiting the castle ruins, we go through the forest until we come to the Limes Trail. We follow the former border line of the Roman Empire past the remains of past towers to Erkertshofen, where there is a reconstructed Limes tower that is accessible. Afterwards, we head back across the plateau to Titting and towards the end of the hike. A varied tour through a beautiful landscape that has a lot of cultural history to offer. And it certainly won't be my last loop in the Altmühltal Nature Park... 😄

With the rain ☔️ this morning we had to dig deep into the motivation box. Wrapped up waterproof, we really set off on the Knights' and Romans' Path in the Altmühltal. Passing the Brunneck castle ruins and over the Roman Limes wall, we were even rewarded with a little bit of sun 🌞.

Once a month we go on tour with a small but fine group of former and active colleagues. Today it was that time again... Actually, today it was supposed to be a full moon winter night hike, but due to a lack of snow and considering the sunny weather, we headed south for an hour - towards the sun 🔆. On this tour, the scenic beauty and the more challenging trail are clearly on the northern half along the Anlautertal! The juniper heaths are fantastic here. The southern section from the Brunneck castle ruins is practically crying out for an alternative.... But what really blew me away at the end in Titting: no, not the delicious Gutmann wheat beer, but the small grocery store that still exists there with original furnishings from the 70s! It brought back childhood memories of my grandmother's village shop in the Franconian Forest....

A very nice tour, I can only recommend it 🤩☀️🥾👌

I started the ATP loop no. 17 right in the center of Titting. I'm a fox and had chosen the direction of travel so that the sun wouldn't shine in my face later. First I went up to the "Tittinger Höhe" with its expansive plateau character. I avoided the original asphalt and road path directly through Erkertshofen and instead crossed the wide areas to the restored Roman watchtower on beautiful field and meadow paths, accompanied by bright yellow rapeseed blossoms and dark purple clover. The fresh green of young barley and young wheat added to my very personal color therapy. After Erkertshofen it got really beautiful on wonderful forest and grass paths that took me over the Brunnenberg to the Brunneck castle ruins above Altdorf. The next section of the path gave me wonderful views of the Anlautertal while I ran in half sunshine and half shade along the slope to the village of Emsing. I walked around this along the idyllic Morsbach and prepared myself for the climb up the Kirchenberg, which made me sweat a lot. Once I got to the top, I was able to calm my circulation on the long, flat and natural meadow path and enjoy the calming views. A final section of the path then took me back down into the Anlautertal and finally back to Titting.

Romans and knights, why is that? That's the name of the circular route that we walked with some deviations. Romans, because part of the way runs along the Limesweg, knights, because there was a castle ruin to admire. And otherwise? Beautiful, very varied through forests, past wild meadows, grain fields and through villages. However, at temperatures around 30 degrees also sweaty.🥵🍻😎