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Parking is available below the “Parc and Spa les Cigognes Albéville” hotel complex (a former holiday village converted into a hotel complex).
(S/E) With your back to the hotel complex, carefully walk down Rue du Meisenbuckel, heading west towards Albé. There are no pavements, so you’ll need to walk a few hundred metres on the tarmac. Leave the road and take the path up to the left.
(1) Walk downhill on the left past the small Albé Aerodrome and, via Rue de la Schrann, join Rue d’Albéville (Blue Disc signposting). Follow Rue d’Albéville (Blue Disc signposting) downhill.
(2) Leave the road and follow the path to the left, which then becomes Rue de la Fontaine. Just before this, there is a beautiful postcard view of the village in the foreground and the vineyards in the background. Followthe path to the junction of Rue de l’Erlebach and Rue de la Fontaine.Cross carefully towards the town hall and the church of Albé opposite.
(3) Turn right and follow Rue du Baechling. Follow the path uphill to the left, marked with a Red Saltire and Green Disc. Pass the junction and the wayside shrine on the left, with a bench under the trees.
(4) Follow the forest path on the right, the “Eselweg” (Donkey Path), marked with a red-white-red Red Rectangle, for a lovely climb up to the Col de Bellevue, 749m.
(5) Follow the Blue Triangle and Yellow Saltire markings to the right, downhill, before a lovely climb to the Col de l’Ungersberg, 676m.
(6) Turn left and then immediately right, following the Red Rectangle and Yellow Ring markings, for a lovely climb that zigzags between the rocks and trees.
(7) Climb to the Héring Tower , 901m, with views over the valley (platform accessible via an iron staircase) and, in good weather, you can clearly see as far as the Black Forest. At the foot of the tower, there is a table with uncovered benches; there is some shelter available under the tower in the event of heavy rain. Descend via a path beneath the fir trees, in the opposite direction to the ascent, heading south, following the Yellow Ring markings, until you reach the junction with the Chemin Forestier du Sommet, at a clearing (table and benches).
(8) Follow this forest road to the right, marked with Yellow Rings and Red-White-Red signs, to the old car park (still shown on maps, but no longer in existence; furthermore, the access roads have been closed to motor traffic; table and benches covered in moss).
(9) Ignore the Red Cross markings, which go uphill to the right, but continue along the road that descends to the left, then turn right onto a slight incline for a few dozen metres, following the Yellow Saltire markings.
(10) Take the path on the left, downhill, following the Red Cross markings.
(11) Cross the Ungersberg Forest Road, continue to follow the Red Cross markings and return to the car park (S/E).
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