Sport spirit meets culture and scenic beauty: circular bike route from Althengstett to the Wendelinus Chapel

We start in Althengstett at the town hall and follow the bike path northwards under the railway embankment. Passing the fire station, we reach the underpass of the B 295. Immediately afterwards, after a few meters, there is a sharp right onto the bike path, and after 200 m we go under the L 179 and continue on the bike path to the crossing at the edge of the forest. Here, we turn left and follow the bike path to Möttlingen. At the mill, we carefully cross the L 179, then turn right and continue straight ahead until after about 500 m we switch back to the bike path on the other side of the road.

Now it goes slightly uphill; at the high point opposite the Waldenserstein, we follow the bike path about 200 m to a bike path junction. Here we follow the gravel bike path half-right towards Hörnle and cross the road from the Georgenau farm to Simmozheim after about 600 m. Always straight ahead, we leave the Möttlingen water tank on the left and follow the path for about 1.5 km until we cross the road from Weil der Stadt to Möttlingen.

Here, too, we always go straight ahead until, after leaving the forest, we reach the Möttlingen lime tree near the sports facilities. From here we continue half-right until after about 700 m we cross another road from Münklingen to Möttlingen. Again, we continue straight ahead, and after about 700 m, shortly after the horse farm and just before the road from Münklingen to Neuhausen, we turn left onto the field path, which we follow straight ahead until we reach the cemetery at the entrance to Neuhausen. Here, unfortunately, we have to switch downhill to the lightly trafficked local road and follow Pforzheim road half-left towards Schellbronn in the town center.

At the end of the village, after the sports ground, we change to the left side of the road and continue straight ahead through the Lidl parking lot and the beverage market until we reach the beginning of the bike path towards Schellbronn. After about 350 m, we see a field path on the right side of the road. We switch onto this and follow it past the Layher See. Immediately after the lake, we turn left and follow the field path to the visible edge of the forest. There we turn right for about 400 m to the road from Neuhausen to Hamberg. We follow this road about 100 m to the right and then left along a field path that leads us after a few hundred meters to the already visible Wendelinus Chapel.

After a well-deserved break, we pedal left past the chapel about 50 m downhill towards Steinegg. There we go straight onto the field path on the other side of the road. After 200 m, we pass the Chernobyl Memorial Stone. Here we continue east along the forest edge until we reach a hut in the forest. There, at the Volkert Hut, we continue straight downhill. After about 700 m in the forest at a triangular junction, we turn right until after about 300 m in the valley we reach the Würmtal bike path. Here we turn right until shortly after a skateboard facility we reach a parking lot. At the small chapel there, we turn sharp right uphill about 150 m on the bike path towards Lehningen.

Here we cross the road and follow the path along the Wurm and cross the Würmtal road at the aviator memorial. We follow the short bike path until, after the farmhouse, we join a wide bike path. Here we turn right towards Weil der Stadt. After about 1.5 km, we cross the road from Hausen to Heimsheim. We continue straight until after about 2.5 km we reach Merklingen.

There we meet a main road, which we follow left for about 300 m. Then we turn right onto the signed bike path to Weil der Stadt. We follow this bike path to Weil der Stadt. Here, we ride over the market square to Calw gate, cross the street at the pedestrian traffic light, and cross the B 295 at the roundabout, where we reach the bike path to Simmozheim/Althengstett and meet the bike path again at the animal rescue station, which led us out of Althengstett.

Coming from the Nagold valley, drive on the B294 towards Weil der Stadt and turn off at the junction to Althengstett.

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