Veloroute Rhine (Speyer-Karlsruhe)

Start in Speyer:

Behind you is the cobblestone Maximilianstraße and ahead the magnificent cathedral where your route begins. Slightly downhill to the right, go down Domplatz, past the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, about 250 m to Klipfelsau, then turn left onto the cycle path. After 270 m, at the traffic island, cross Schillerweg and keep right on the cycle path until the Rhine bridge.

After passing under the bridge, take the cycle path to the left uphill and cross the Rhine via the Salierbrücke. After the bridge, follow the signs to the right towards Germersheim.

Start in Lingenfeld:

From Lingenfeld station, cross to Kolpingstraße, continue on Berlinerstraße and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. Turn right into Kirschenallee and then left into Erlenweg. Follow the cycle path down towards Altrhein and under the railway bridge on the left at the right turn. You reach the Lingenfeld Old Rhine, where you cycle along the Rhine dike and turn right onto Hafenstraße at the intersection "Im Weidenschlag." Go straight ahead to the second roundabout. At the Jet gas station, turn towards the town centre. At the next roundabout, take the 2nd exit and follow Bahnhofstraße. This becomes Zeughausstraße and then Rudolf-von-Habsburgstraße. At the roundabout near the Rhein/Mitte S-Bahn station, take the 2nd exit, use the underpass, and continue straight towards the Rhine (do not follow the priority road!). You arrive at the Rhine dike and continue to the Rhine promenade. Cycle right always along the Rhine to the Brickworks Museum in Sondernheim. Then stay on the route. When the paths cross behind the dike, continue left behind the dike towards Leimersheim/Wörth/Karlsruhe to the lock house in Hördt.

From the lock house, the cycle path leads over the Michelsbach past the nature reserve "Hördter Rheinauen" with its magnificent flora and fauna, further past meadows and fields where you can also observe storks in summer, to Leimersheim. Right on the cycle path is the Leimersheim maize labyrinth, a detour is worthwhile. Then continue on L549 along the discovery path "Around the Fish Pool." With some luck, you can observe the kingfisher here.

You can take the Rhine ferry from the Baden side to Leimersheim. If starting here, cycle about 1 km on L549 then turn left onto the Rhine cycle path, which continues from here to Neupotz. It goes straight on to Wörth. There, the cycle path leads around the port area and past the Old Rhine into town. The Rhine cycle path runs parallel to the Petronella Rhine cycle path to the Rhine bridge.

The return journey can be made by train on either side of the Rhine.

From Mannheim Main Station with S-Bahn S3 / S4 towards Germersheim, to SP main station. (Change to City Shuttle, line 565 to Domplatz)

Timetable information

P + R car park "Festplatz" (GPS: Klipfelsau) or alternatively "Naturfreundehaus" (GPS: Schillerweg) or Technology Museum (GPS: Am Technik Museum 1)

Speyer Tourist Information
Maximilianstraße 13
67346 Speyer
Tel.: 0 62 32-14 23 92
Fax: 0 62 32 -14 23 32
E-mail: touristinformation@stadt-speyer.de
www.speyer.de

Don't miss: Speyer Cathedral (UNESCO World Heritage Site), more info: www.dom-zu-speyer.de.

Here you will find hosts specialized to your needs: Bett + Bike - establishments.

For your culinary pleasure: Speyer Gastronomy.

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South Palatinate Tourism District Germersheim e.V.

Luitpoldplatz 1

76726 Germersheim

Tel.: 0 72 74-53 300

Fax: 0 72 74-53 15 300

E-mail: info@suedpfalz-tourismus.de

www.suedpfalz-tourismus.de

www.rheinradweg.eu

www.rhinecycleroute.eu

www.velorouterhin.eu

www.rijnfietsroute.eu

On the left bank of the Rhine, this route leads from Speyer through the rustic Rhine floodplain landscape with its nature reserves via Germersheim to Karlsruhe and finally back to Speyer on the right bank of the Rhine.

The route can be shortened multiple times (bridges or Rhine ferries). Short distance approx. 40 km / 2:30 hours - longest distance approx. 106 km / 6:40 hours.