Renchen - Image Shrine Route

Follow the symbol of the Cross and Image Shrine Route

The starting point is the cemetery in Renchen-Ulm, with a start board and route description. If you head from there towards Mösbach, after about 350 m at the Sternebühlbuckel there is an old image shrine made of red sandstone, crafted in the early 19th century. The path then leads you through the orchard meadows to Renchen-Ulm. After passing four more small monuments, you reach the parish church of St. Mauritius. Around the parish church are more small monuments.

At the town exit towards Stadelhofen, at the fork between Oberkircher Straße and Appenweierer Straße stands the way cross of Magdalena Hause.

Follow the signposted path through the orchard meadows and, after a small detour through the industrial area, walk along the Ulmer Dorfbach through Armenhöfestraße. There is the image shrine of Ida Welle. Passing through sparsely populated streets, you go past Rothof and after a short climb reach the water reservoir. In an open log cabin, on a massive granite block, stands the two-meter high linden wood figure of Saint Mauritius. From here you have a splendid view over the vineyards and forests of the foothill zone and the Rhine plain. In good visibility, you can spot the tower of Strasbourg Cathedral in the distance, which stands out from the Vosges.

Along Gaishaldeweg, you walk past the Kaier forest playground. On a paved farm road leading left into the vineyards, after several hairpin bends on a steep road, you reach a sandstone drinking trough and the image shrine of Alexander Schindler at Rechenköpfle. Then the path continues steeply uphill to Kutzenstein and through the shady forest to the Franciscan image shrine and the wooden crucifix at the Kreuztanne. Via a downward hiking trail through forest and orchard meadows, you return to the starting point.

(Crosses and image shrines on this route: No. 1 to 32)