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. If you head from there towards Mösbach, after about 350 m at the Sternebühlbuckel you will find an old wayside shrine made of red Buntsandstein sandstone, crafted in the early 19th century. The path then leads you through the orchards back to Renchen-Ulm. After passing four more small monuments, you reach the parish church of St. Mauritius. There are further small monuments around the parish church.

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

Follow the signposted path through the orchards and after a short detour through the industrial area, walk along the Ulmer Dorfbach through Armenhöfestraße. There you will find the wayside shrine of Ida Welle. Passing through sparsely populated streets, you come past Rothof and reach the water reservoir after a short ascent. 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. On clear days, you can make out the tower of Strasbourg Cathedral in the distance, which stands out from the Vosges.

Along the 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 fountain trough and the wayside shrine of Alexander Schindler at Rechenköpfle. After that, the path continues steeply uphill to Kutzenstein and through the shady forest to the Franciscan wayside shrine and the wooden crucifix at Kreuztanne. A descending hiking trail through forest and orchards leads you back to the starting point.

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