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Start: Hornberg railway station (Am Bahnhof 6, 78132 Hornberg)
Parking: Parking available at the Straßerhofmühle in Hornberg (Reichenbacher Straße 37, 78132 Hornberg)
(S/E) The circular walk begins at the Straßerhofmühle. You can see inside the mill at any time through a window. From the signpost ‘Straßerhof (395 m)’, follow the Mühlenweg (trail marker: red millwheel) along the L 108 uphill tothe ‘Postwiese’site.
(1) There, turn left and walk between the Reichenbach stream and the road, past the playground to ‘Schondelgrund’.
(2) At the war memorial, we’re back on the country road; we then cross to the other side of the stream via the Hofbauernbrücke and turn right just beyond it.
In Unterreichenbach, we pass the former school and town hall; on the right, we see the Heilerhof with its farm mill.
(3) At the next junction, turn right onto Schwickersbachstraße and follow the valley path to the ‘Unterreichenbach Krone’ location.
(4) Continuing uphill through the Reichenbach Valley, we cross a track that leads via the valley road to the Kenzengut estate with the Unterschembachhof mill and the neighbouring Heizemehof mill. We can see the Heizmannshof on the opposite side of the valley road, which continues to accompany us as far as the ruined Vogtsbauernhof mill in Oberreichenbach.
(5) At the signpostmarked ‘Alter Baderhof’,we leave the valley path to the right and turn right again uphill before the farm. We look back at the Reichenbach Valley one last time. We have now reached the highest point of the walk, the Krährhof (845 m) with its farm shop. Circling the farm, we follow the flat forest track round the Kräherkapf.
(6)At ‘Am Kräher/Igelacker’, the steep descent begins towards the imposing Igelloch cliffs and into the Schwanenbach Valley to the ‘Schwanenbach Lamm’ inn.
(7) We walk down along the road towards the ‘Tiefenbacher Loch’ and shortly afterwards reach the ‘Untersteighof’ with its fully operational Untersteighof mill. Passing the ‘Altes Schulhäusle’, we arrive at the Zuckerbauernhof mill after 1 km.
(8) We then turn right towards the Hasenhof (472 m) with the Hasenbauernhof mill. After a short climb, we arrive at ‘Über dem Hasenhof (526 m)’.
(9) High above the Schwanenbach Valley, we head left down to the ‘Posthof’ and, from there, turn left onto the Gustav-Mangold-Weg towards the ‘Postwiese’. Following the familiar path, we reach our starting point, the ‘Straßerhof’ (S/E).
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