Renchen - Wayside Shrine Route

Follow the symbol of the Cross and Wayside Shrine route

The starting point is the cemetery in Renchen-Ulm, with a start board and route description. From there, if you head towards Mösbach, after about 350 m on the Sternebühlbuckel stands an old wayside shrine made of red sandstone, created 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, there are more small monuments.

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

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 you will find the Ida Welle wayside shrine. Passing through sparsely populated streets, you come past Rothof and after a short climb reach the water reservoir. In an open log cabin stands on a massive granite block the two-meter-high linden wood figure of Saint Mauritius. From here you have a wonderful view over the vineyards and forests of the foothill zone and the Rhine plain. In good visibility, you can see the tower of Strasbourg Cathedral in the distance, standing out from the Vosges.

Via the Gaishaldeweg, you walk past the Kaier forest playground. On a paved farm road that leads left into the vineyards, after some bends on a steep road, you come to a sandstone fountain trough and the wayside shrine of Alexander Schindler at Rechenköpfle. Then the path continues steeply uphill to Kutzenstein and through the shaded forest to the Franciscan wayside shrine and the wooden crucifix at the Kreuztanne. Down a descending hiking trail through the forest and orchards, you return to the starting point.

(Crosses and wayside shrines on this route: nos. 1 to 32)