From Ehingen through the Danube floodplains - Natour 3

From the parking lot at the stadium, we walk past the floodlight mast to the Danube cycle path. On the left towards the Schillerlinde, there is a wide view of the Danube valley and the Swabian Jura. In front of the kindergarten, we turn right and continue downwards along “Kapellenstraße.” After house number 39, we sharply turn right past the old Danube water through the Danube floodplains. At a sharp right bend, we go left and then right on a meadow footpath over a wooden bridge to the Schmiech river mouth. We follow the Danube upstream, first passing under the Danube bridge to Berg and continuing to the bridge to Dettingen. There we turn right, cross the railway line and the “Rottenackerstraße,” and go straight up to the “Hundsfeld.” From the 1869 crossroads, we have a good view of Ehingen (Wolfertturm – Liebfrauenkirche). Below on the right lies the SAPPI paper factory (the oldest large industrial plant in the city). At the right curve where the path descends towards the railway underpass, we turn left and follow the newly laid agricultural road uphill to a paved road. We walk left past the wrought field cross uphill, past industrial businesses. At the end of the street, we go right and then right again down “Schwarze Gasse” to the traffic lights. We continue straight through the forecourt of the St. Franziskus residential park, through the underpass under “Spitalstraße” to the tower of the Liebfrauenkirche. We walk left along the church downwards to the pedestrian crossing. Across the bridge, along the Schmiech stream, we reach the city museum of Ehingen (Heilig-Geist-Spital, 1340). We walk left past the building complex and along “Hauptstraße” to the marketplace. On the right, we see the “Schlössle” from 1688 and the market fountain, on the left the district court in the Ständehaus from 1750. From there, we go left past the town hall and the red information column, straight across the pedestrian crossing, right past the Lindenhalle, uphill and right past the metal pavilion to the end of the parking lot. There we take the footpath to “Schillerstraße” and uphill via “Winckelhoferstraße” to “Wolfertweg.” We walk up left to the Wolfertturm (Kaiser Wilhelm and observation tower, 1891), along a playground straight over “Müllerstraße.” At the end of the sports field, diagonally left across “Volksplatz” we return directly to the starting point.