Sulzach cycle route

From the info center in the centre of Schillingsfürst, you first go up the hill towards Schillingsfürst Castle with its falconry. Once at the top, you have a beautiful view over Schillingsfürst. If you turn left, you reach Schillingsfürst Castle. The path, however, leads to the right past the Ludwig-Dörfler Museum. You follow Neue Gasse and pass another landmark of Schillingsfürst, the water tower. Until the 1970s, it served the water supply of Schillingsfürst. At the water tower, you follow Ansbacher Straße to the exit of Schillingsfürst.

Afterwards, you reach the small village of Ziegelhütte. From there, you go downhill into a small forest where the Sulzach springs. After a short time, you leave the forest and enter the village of Ziegelhaus, which already belongs to the market municipality of Dombühl. Continue towards Kloster Sulz. In Kloster Sulz, turn first right and then left onto the main road. Stay on this road until the town limits.

After Kloster Sulz, keep right, cross the railway tracks, and head towards Bortenberg. From there, follow the road to Vehlberg. In the centre of Vehlberg, the path turns right. Shortly afterwards, you cross the Sulzach and the railway tracks again. The path first follows the railway tracks and the Sulzach for a short distance before turning left; you cross the Sulzach and the railway tracks again and enter the Feuchtwangen district of Dornberg. Here, the path turns right, then immediately right again and leads back to the Sulzach.

Along the Sulzach, you finally reach Neidlingen. The path goes through Neidlingen and continues following the Sulzach, passing Bonlanden. At the next connecting road, the path turns right and follows the road to Leiperzell. From there, it continues to Poppenweiler and Jungenhof. Just after Jungenhof, turn right and follow a small path running parallel to the state road. The path bends left, goes under the state road, and through Sulzach Park you finally reach the cloister town of Feuchtwangen.

The path first leads through Sulzach Park and then turns left. Via Untere Torstraße, you reach Feuchtwangen Market Square, widely known as the festival hall of Franconia. At the market square, keep right and then immediately turn left into Museumsstraße. The path leads past the Franconian Museum Feuchtwangen and the Singers' Museum. After the Singers' Museum, the path turns right onto Ringstraße, which sharply bends left shortly after, then immediately right again. Follow Ringstraße to the roundabout. At the roundabout, take the third exit onto Walkmühlweg. After a short time, leave Walkmühlweg and turn right into Sulzach Park. The path crosses the Sulzach and then turns left. At the end of the park, turn left again and then right after a short time. You reach the idyllic countryside guest house Walkmühle. Here, keep right, cross the Sulzach again, and leave the cloister town of Feuchtwangen behind you.

At the sewage treatment plant, the path turns left and first leads to Herrnschallbach and then to Zehdorf. Beyond Zehdorf, the path turns left and leads back to the Sulzach. Before reaching Krapfenau, the path turns right just before the bridge. You pass through the village of Sulzach and finally reach Dürrwangen. In Dürrwangen, turn right onto the market square and then right again onto the main street. Finally, the path turns left into Dinkelsbühler Straße, then left again onto Hesselbergstraße, then immediately left again, leaving Dürrwangen and leading back to the Sulzach. Here, you must cover a short section on the state road before the path turns right in Witzmannsmühle, leaving the state road. The path leads to Haslach.

However, before reaching Haslach properly, the path turns left and immediately leaves the town again. At the next junction, the path turns left again towards Sulzach. But before the Sulzach, the path turns right and leads to Dorfkemmathen. There, the path turns left into Bruckgasse and leaves Dorfkemmathen. The path crosses the Sulzach again and then turns right. After a short time, turn right again. The path runs parallel to the Sulzach again until it turns right shortly before Untermichelbach and leads into the village. You leave Untermichelbach heading south and reach Wittelshofen after a short time. In Wittelshofen, the path turns left onto the main road and then immediately right into Wörnitzstraße, where the path leads to the Wörnitz. Here, the Sulzach flows into the Wörnitz and the Sulzach cycle route ends.