Eckbach Mill Route

Directions:

The starting point of the route is at the train station in Kirchheim an der Weinstraße. First, head towards the town center and turn right at the first intersection, following the cycling route signs to Freinsheim. Follow the marked cycle path of the German Wine Route towards Freinsheim until you reach the golf course. Here, turn right, cross the golf course, and reach the northern entrance of Dackenheim, which you pass through on Kirchheimer Straße. In the town center, turn right onto Weisenheimer Straße. Take a field path towards Haardt. 200 m after crossing the B 271, turn right and immediately left towards Weisenheim am Berg.

From the town center of Weisenheim, follow the cycle path of the German Wine Route along the L 517 via Bobenheim am Berg to Kleinkarlbach, where you meet the well-signposted Eckbach Mill Hiking Trail at the main street. On this asphalt hiking trail, continue through Kirchheim and Bissersheim to Großkarlbach. The asphalt section of the trail ends at Laumersheimer Straße. Here, follow the cycle path signs to Laumersheim. Along the L 455, ride to Laumersheim and turn right into the main street in town. At the church in the town center of Laumersheim, you will meet the Eckbach Mill Hiking Trail again, on which you travel via Burgstraße and along the Eckbach stream to Dirmstein, where the marked hiking trail ends. Continue cycling along Leininger Straße and Affenstein street into the historic town center, then through the main street to the junction 'Zum Sportplatz'. Here, turn right into Erich-Otto-Weg and at the end, about 100 m after crossing the Eckbach stream, turn left. After about 400 m, you reach Gerolsheimer Straße. On the cycle path beside K 24, ride to Gerolsheim. From the town center of Gerolsheim, continue on the road inside town, and outside Gerolsheim on the cycle path back to Großkarlbach.

After the former Großkarlbach station, turn right into Mühlweg, where after 200 m you rejoin the Eckbach Mill Hiking Trail. Follow it back to Kirchheim an der Weinstraße. Shortly before Kirchheim, turn right onto the Kraut-Rüben cycling path and at the L 520 right towards Kirchheim an der Weinstraße. Via Bissersheimer Landstraße, you return to the starting point of the route.