Bike Museum Rally through the Southern Palatinate Rhine Floodplains

We start at the Terra Sigillata Museum, our first station of the rally. So download the "Actionbound" app and our bound "Museum Rally - Cycle to the Museum" before the route. Go into the museum and answer the tasks waiting for you.

Afterwards, cycle out of the courtyard and turn right onto the main street. Follow the bike signs (white-green signs and watch for the logo of the themed cycle route "From Riesling to Zander" (fish with wine glass). You must follow the cycle path with this logo first. After about 100 m, turn right into Neupotz Street. You will follow this street all the way. Don’t worry, only few cars drive on this street. But still, always keep right and be careful. Passing a carpool parking space, you then cycle along the state road on the bike path towards Neupotz. You cross the B9 on a bridge. At the roundabout, you must continue straight ahead. Be careful again when crossing the street. Before Neupotz, the cycle path takes a right curve. Therefore, you don't have to continue on the main street. Always follow the "From Riesling to Zander" logo, turn left into the town of Neupotz and turn left again into Oberdorf Street towards the church. When you arrive at the church, you will find diagonally opposite on the main street the second station of our rally: "The House of Life on the River". Here you will learn many interesting things about the Rhine, flood protection, and what it means for the people living here to live by such a large river = stream. In the information center, you can not only look at things but also experience many actively.

After your visit, return the same way through Neupotz, past the church along Oberdorf Street to the junction at Otterbach. Here turn left and follow again the cycle path "From Riesling to Zander". This goes along the village, past the sports field and fields until we slowly enter the woods of the Rhine floodplains. At the end of the cycle path is a rest area where we can take a short break, or we turn left immediately onto the Rhine cycle path (blue logo with cyclist and EV15 sign) to Leimersheim. Away from traffic, we can enjoy the peace here and cycle past Rhine floodplain forests and fields up to Leimersheim. In Leimersheim, we leave the Rhine cycle path and turn left past the lake "Fischmal". After crossing the stream to the pumping station, we turn left again before the tennis courts and continue along the lake on St. Gertrudis Street. From now on, watch out for traffic again, as we have to ride on roads for a short distance. At the end of the street, turn left onto the Lower Main Street. The street curves right, and shortly after the curve, on the left side, is already our third station: the local history museum "Fischerhaus" in Leimersheim. In the museum, you learn vividly how people used to live in the southern Palatinate. You will be amazed at what old household appliances and furnishings were once considered modern.

Afterwards, return the same way through Leimersheim until we reach the tennis courts again. Here turn left, cross the country road, continue on the bike path along the country road to the right until we are back on the Rhine cycle path. We follow the Rhine cycle path for a good stretch until a left turn towards Hördt leads and the Klingbach cycle path (green logo with white bell) is signposted. Here we turn left, ride through the forest, and at the end reach another country road. We cross it and turn left onto the roadside cycle path to Hördt and continue to follow the "Klingbach cycle path" into Hördt. When we enter Hördt, we get back onto the road. So, you already know, watch out for drivers again and keep to the right. At the junction, we briefly leave the Klingbach cycle path, which continues straight. Instead, we turn left, ride about 150 m on Schulzen Street, and then turn left again into Kloster Street. After about 100 m, turn right into St. Georg Street. We are now in a quiet residential area. Although you still need to watch for traffic, normally there aren’t many cars here. You ride this street straight ahead. At the end, there is a short downhill, and here you will find our last station with our tasks and questions: the Hördt Rhine Floodplain Center. In the information center, there are many stations where you have to be active yourself to learn about the flora and fauna of the Rhine and the Rhine floodplains. It certainly won’t be boring.

You have now made it. After your visit to the Rhine Floodplain Center, you have answered all the tasks of our bound. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Now it’s time to finish the bike ride back to our starting point, the Terra Sigillata Museum in Rheinzabern. For this, you ride back the same way you came in Hördt. So back on St. Georg Street, left into Kloster Street. Then left onto Schulzen Street and after about 50 m immediately right into Grünwald Street. At the next junction, you see the signs for the Klingbach cycle path again. Here turn left and follow the Klingbach cycle path out of Hördt. Passing fields, we now ride into Rülzheim. Be careful again in Rülzheim because we ride on car roads again. But cars must also drive slowly here in the 30 km/h zone. We follow the Klingbach cycle path through Rülzheim to Eisenbahn Street. In Eisenbahn Street, the Klingbach cycle path turns right, but we continue straight on the street into the town center. At the end of the street, turn right into Mittlere Ortsstraße and after about 50 m immediately turn left again into Hoppelgasse. We continue straight, past the cemetery until we finally reach the roadside cycle path, which leads us along the country road out of Rülzheim to Rheinzabern. In Rheinzabern, we cycle along the main street for a short stretch until we see the entrance to the Terra Sigillata Museum, our starting point, on the left again. Congratulations again on having completed the bike ride. Now you surely deserve a refreshment!