Panoramic route around Michelbach-Gaggenau

Park in the Wiesenthalhalle car park at the end of Siedlungstrasse in Michelbach.

(S/E) With your back to the car park, follow the road to the right.

(1) After about a hundred metres, turn left onto Siedlungstrasse. When the road bends to the right, carry on straight ahead onto Huberweg.

(2) At the end, first turn left then right to follow the Michelbacher Rundweg (well signposted). At a fork in the road, keep to the right.

(3) At the edge of the forest, turn sharply right and carry on straight ahead to the Schlossköpfel (viewpoint).

(4) Walk back to the previous junction.

(3) Carry on to the Pestkreuz. 

(5) Then continue along the same path (signposted “Michelbacher Rundweg”), which descends gently to a stream (Litzelbach). 

(6) Cross the bridge and follow the path to the right. After a short stretch through the woods, and following two bends, you’ll reach a path which you follow to the right; it climbs gently across the meadows to a junction of three paths.

(7) Ignore the paths to the right and left and continue straight ahead (signposted “Michelbacher Rundweg”). After a wide bend to the left, you’ll reach another junction. Follow the path to your left, passing the Hilsberghütte (shelter) further up, before reaching another junction where you’ll continue to the left. Walk past the Rückhütte, then, after a bend to the right, reach a junction.

(8) Continue along the path on the right (“Michelbacher Rundweg”), alternating between sections through woodland, meadows and orchards. After a bend to the left, you’ll reach the junction with the Obersbachweg. 

(9) Turn right, ignore the next three paths on the left, then, after the bend, follow the path which climbs to the left. A few metres further on, take the path on the left (still the “Michelbacher Rundweg”), which leads back into the woodland, and continue to the junction with the Bruhbergweg.

(10) Continue along the path on your right; after several bends, you’ll reach the Scheibenberg.  

(11) Carry on to the right, still on the “Michelbacher Rundweg”, until you reach the Schaftberg.

(12) Continue straight on along the path which descends through the meadows and leads to the entrance to Michelbach.

(13) Turn left, then head down Brunngasse on the right-hand side. Ignore the first street you come to, then take the second on the right, followed by the first on the left (Lindenstrasse) to reach Gaggenauer Strasse and rejoin the Michelbacher Rundweg.

(14) At this junction, you can stop for a drink at the “Zum Engel” pub on the right. Otherwise, turn left and, at the next junction, ignore the streets on the right and left and continue along Heilweg, which takes you back to the car park where you started (S/E).

There are several tables and benches along the route where you can rest and/or have a picnic (Schlossköpfel, Pestkreuz, Hilsberghütte...).