Easy hikes and walks around Forstwald

...but it's not a bunker but an old railway bridge

There are information boards here for cyclists, hikers and cross-country skiers.

Very quiet and relaxing

The Obernburg-Elsenfeld–Heimbuchenthal railway line was a branch line in Bavaria. It opened up the Elsava valley in the Spessart to the west towards the Main valley. It was also colloquially known as the Spessart Railway. The railway line in its current state as a cycle and hiking path near Rück, the Elsava can be seen on the left The 16.8-kilometer-long, standard-gauge local railway line was opened on January 10, 1910 by the Bavarian State Railways. It connected to the Obernburg-Elsenfeld station on the Aschaffenburg–Miltenberg line in Lower Franconia and ran to the terminus on the southern edge of the municipality of Heimbuchenthal, a typical street village that stretches further north up the valley. Passenger traffic for commuters consisted mainly of employees in the former district town of Obernburg am Main and in the Main valley municipalities. It was also the means of transport for students from the Elsava valley to secondary schools. The railway served as a means of transport for tourists to the famous moated castle in Mespelbrunn. As early as 1914, two additional pairs of trains ran on Sundays in addition to the three usual pairs of trains on local railways; in 1939 there were six of these a day and in the fifties and sixties there were even up to eleven. The departures in Obernburg-Elsenfeld were aligned with the shift change at the Glanzstoff factory, the last train usually only left Obernburg-Elsenfeld after 11.30 p.m. In 1936, Bunker 301 of the Wetterau-Main-Tauber position was built into the railway embankment between Schippach and Elsenfeld and the outer walls were faced with sandstone. After the end of the war, it was blown up by the Americans and still exists today as a bat roost. Passenger traffic on the rails was stopped on May 25, 1968. At the same time, freight traffic on the upper section of the line also ended. A shunting locomotive was still in use at Eschau-Mönchberg station until the end of 1978 to serve the remaining customers, after which the disused line was dismantled. Plans from 1961 to include the railway line in the expansion of the road from Elsenfeld to Hessenthal were implemented during the construction of the Eschau bypass (1998–2000) and the construction of the Sommerau bypass (2016–2017). The former railway line was also included in the Elsenfeld bypass (1987). The cycle path from Elsenfeld to Heimbuchenthal runs between Elsenfeld and Eschau, as well as between Hobbach and Heimbuchenthal on the former railway line. Source: Wikipedia

The Elsava Valley Railway used to steam here. The track bed of the Elsava Valley Railway ran along the route of this cycle path from 1910 to 1979. It ran from Elsenfeld to Heimbuchenthal. Once celebrated as a feeder to progress, as a connection to modern life, the first setbacks came at the end of the 1950s due to changes in driving and transport options. Things then went steeply downhill in the 1960s. Passenger traffic was stopped in 1968 and freight traffic in 1979. This beautiful cycle path was opened in 1992. Source: Information board at the location

Luckily we can still see them from time to time

Nice place in the middle of the forest

Quiet place to linger... there is definitely no crowd here... there is a bench opposite