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ReichlingPhoto: Gemeinde Reichling, Tourismusverband Pfaffenwinkel
Johann Baptist Baader (1717-1780) was a regionally well-known and significant painter of Rococo and Classicism. The miller’s son from Lechmühlen was trained as a painter and fresco painter in Augsburg and Italy. As a guild-free artist, he worked for almost all monasteries between Lech and Loisach, but his main client was the Polling Chorherrenstift. There he created two of his most important works: the Reliquary Chapel and the Library Hall. Baader's attachment to his homeland, as well as some popular motifs in his paintings, have made him immortal among the local population as “Lechhansl.”
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Important note: Not all churches and chapels are accessible at all times.
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Track types
Safety information
Consideration widens paths
Please note that in our region you often cycle on agricultural paths. You are warmly welcome on these paths, but they are of course also used by farmers with their vehicles for managing the fields. Due to the width of the vehicles, it can get tight on the paths. The paths remain wide enough if all users show consideration for each other and make way when necessary. Please be aware that it is often not possible for the large machines to leave the paths. Therefore, as cyclists, please make way when it gets tight!
Thank you very much for your understanding and consideration for the people who have to work here!
Use of paths along rivers
We are pleased that the Weilheim Water Management Office has laid out dike paths along the rivers that may also be used by cyclists.
Please note that these paths were created for the purposes of water management and do not always meet the quality requirements of cycle paths. Especially after construction measures, flooding events and storms (fallen trees), the paths may show damage or impassable sections. Furthermore, occasional construction traffic is to be expected.
Please use the paths with appropriate caution and observe the traffic signs on site! Use of the maintenance paths is at your own risk.
Tips and suggestions
Information about all routes in Pfaffenwinkel HERE.
Roadbook
The cycle path named after Baader starts in Lechmühlen, the artist’s birthplace and residence. Crossing the Lech leads to Mundraching. Next is Stadl, whose parish church houses three altarpieces from Baader’s early work (1751). However, the cycle path leads to Vilgertshofen. In the former pilgrimage inn, three ceiling frescoes by Lechhansl from 1770 have been preserved.
The next stop is Issing, whose small parish church was completely decorated by Johann Baader in 1777. Two ceiling frescoes and decorative painting make this church a true jewel. The cycle path then continues eastward to the Ammersee. In Dießen, the old parish church in the St. Georgen district contains an altarpiece with the “Adoration of the Shepherds” (1768). Slightly south, the path passes just by Pähl.
The town of Weilheim houses several works of the Lechhansl: an impressive ceiling painting and the altar background in the small Anger Chapel (1761), several panel paintings in the town parish church, as well as some smaller works in the “Baader Cabinet” of the town museum. The monastery village of Polling is the next stop on the cycle path. The former Augustinian Chorherrenstift was Baader’s most important client, and numerous works of Lechhansl, as well as Baader’s main work at the time, the library hall, can be found here.
The cycle path leads through moor landscapes and the yew forest of Paterzell to Wessobrunn. The local monastery was also a busy client for Baader. 20 years after the work in Wessobrunn, Baader painted the high altar and ceiling frescoes in the old church of Rott.
Between Reichling and Epfach, the Lech is crossed, and on the Swabian side it goes via Denklingen to Leeder. Over the idyllic Seestall it finally goes back to Lechmühlen.
Kirche zum Kloster Sankt Alban
Marienmünster Dießen
Dampfersteg Dießen
Stadtmuseum Weilheim
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Pölten in Weilheim
Kloster Polling
Alte Klosterwirtschaft
Naturschutzgebiet Eibenwald in Paterzell
Kloster Wessobrunn und der längste Fürstentrakt der Welt
Lorenzkapelle
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Equipment
All information about bike rental and service HERE
Localization
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