Panorama hiking route – through vineyards and hilly expanses

The "Panorama Hiking Route" (No. 4) leads you over quiet fields, peaceful valleys, and scenic viewpoints from Külsheim to Uissigheim. 

The starting point of the hike is the castle square. The historically developed building houses the city administration today. Standing in front of the castle, turn left, pass the kindergarten, and shortly afterwards go down a staircase on the right into the old town. At the foot of the stairs, you will see a cross, a fountain, and the "Old Town Hall." At this half-timbered building, turn right into Rathausstraße and follow it out of the town. 

Now a wonderful landscape opens up with hedges, scattered orchards, and fields. After about two kilometers, you reach a Marian grotto with a spring and a Kneipp facility featuring a water-treading and an arm basin. The benches nearby invite you to rest and refresh yourself. 

Refreshed and invigorated, you continue hiking and soon descend into the forest. You take the forest path branching off to the right, which leads gently uphill. At the end of the forest, you see the Stahlberg before you. At the next fork, first turn right and then left on a grass-covered field path uphill into the forest on the Stahlberg.

Here you'll be rewarded with a great view over the region where, in good visibility, you can see as far as the Spessart. After a section in the forest, you reach the vineyards on the Stahlberg, and shortly afterwards, you arrive at a beautiful stone Way of the Cross, which leads uphill to the Stahlberg Chapel. In the chapel, there is a depiction of the saints venerated in the Catholic Church as the "14 Holy Helpers."

After a short spiritual pause on the nearby benches with a barbecue area, the path leads you northeastward, and you get another magnificent view. Here your gaze sweeps over the Tauber valley with the Gamburg. It continues downhill to the vineyards, and the path bends right. The immediately following vineyard path leads you down to the left until it meets another path in the valley. Here you take the right route directly to Uissigheim.

Passing the sports ground, follow Stahlbergstraße downhill to the town exit, then eastward on this road, and later turn right onto the main road. At the next sharp curve of the town exit to the left (toward Eiersheim), the hiking route turns right into Birkenweg. Follow this for several kilometers toward Külsheim. At a small hill, you can once again relax, enjoying a dreamlike view of the fountain town Külsheim and the vineyard site Hoher Herrgott. 

You can reach Külsheim via
- A 3 (Frankfurt - Würzburg) exit Wertheim and then via Taubertalstraße to Bronnbach and Külsheim (12 miles)
- A 81 (Heilbronn-Würzburg) exit Tauberbischofsheim and then via the country road directly to Külsheim (7.5 miles)
- Federal roads 19, 27, 290, and 292.

Tourist Info Wertheim - www.tourismus-wertheim.de

Tourist Info Külsheim - www.kuelsheim.de