Dreikirschenweg-kleine runde in Achern

Achern Station Car Park - Alter Bahnhof - Located on Eisenbahnstraße, it is immediately on the left as you pass under the bridge coming from the motorway – heading towards the town centre. Pay-and-display car park (free for 2 hours – €1 for the whole day 9am–5pm; payment by card, cash or mobile)

(S/E) With your back to the station car park, head south along Eisenbahnstraße.

(1) Follow it straight on, past Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. Follow the signs to the left *Zum Klauskirchl* and cross the main road (Hauptstraße).

(2) "Klauskirchl" – continue straight on along Kappellenstraße.

(3) At the crossroads, turn right along Spitalstraße-Wilhelm Schechter Straße, cross the Acher bridge and turn left at the end.

(4) Turn right onto Joseph-Wurzier Straße until you reach the hospital on the bend.

(5) Keep left, ignoring all the streets branching off to the left, and stay on the Achertaler Heimatpfad.

(6) Turn right onto the "Achertaler Heimatpfad", a dirt track, until you reach the fire brigade memorial.

(7) Pass on the right, go down to Hohühlstraße and continue along the road to the left until you reach Fautenbacher-Straße.

(8) Turn left towards Fautenbach, go straight across the roundabout near the Scheck-In Center and continue to Fautenbach.

(9) At Sankt-Bernhard Church, turn left to climb up to the church, go round it on the left and continue uphill to the war memorial (Kriegsdenkmal): lovely view, bench and information board.

(10) Continue straight on along a dirt track (the Sinnen-pfad), follow the signposting to the right and head down to Talstraße.

(11) Turn left, walk past the Eichberg inn, then turn right towards "Alte Kirche". Follow the signposts through the orchards to the L88 in Mösbach.

(12) Webers hofglūck (possible break – self-service), a little further along the Renchstrasse L88, turn right (on the other side of the road, view of the cemetery). Continue south on the Renchtalstraße until you reach Hänferstraße on the left.

(13) Follow the L88 to the left and drive through Mösbach.

(14) At the end, turn left into Brunnenstraße and follow it to the end.

(15) Follow Waldulmerstraße to the left, turn right into Schneidergasse, cross Kappelgasse and later the Pelzbach, following the signposts.

(16) A pretty table and a pond in the middle of the meadow, and a little further on, the large and small Dreikirschenweg split. Keep left, still following the signposts.

(17) After the underpass, turn left, continue parallel to the railway line to Oberachern, Oberkircherstraße. Cross this following the signposts and continue parallel to the railway line to Achern.

(4) Take Josef-Wurzler-Straße on the right, follow it for a short distance, then turn left onto Rue "Am Acherrain" and take Wilhelm Schechter Straße on the right, cross the bridge and continue straight ahead.

(3) At the junction, continue straight on to the main road (Hauptstraße), cross it, cross Adlerplatz keeping to the right, cross Kirschstraße and rejoin Janhstasse. Return to the path you started on and turn right: the car park is opposite (S/E).

There are several places to stop off and many fruit growers selling their produce directly from the farm along this route. Notably Webers Hofglück: a farm café, set up as a self-service spot with cakes, coffee and ice cream. It is also a farm shop selling seasonal produce, some of which is grown on the farm itself, as well as all sorts of fresh produce from local producers.

Every year in April, the village of Mösbach celebrates its “magic of the cherry blossoms”, a festival where everything revolves around the red fruit for a day: www.kirschbluetenzauber.de.

There are other cherry-themed walks from north to south along the Rhine Valley; among the best known are the Oberkirch trail, the Obereggenen Cherry Valley ( south, near Mulhouse), in the Kaiserstuhl region, the Kirschbaumpfad (Cherry Tree Trail) betweenSasbach and Endingen, and another north of the Kaiserstuhl (Königschaffhausen / Sasbach), and also the circular route around Endingen am Kaiserstuhl (vineyards + orchards).

This route was completed on 15 April 2026 by the Branquignol.e.s (a famous group of epicurean hikers from Isac, whose motto is ‘having a blast on foot’). The cherry trees were in bloom... magnificent.