Shelter with map – Heckenzeckenbank Picnic Area loop from Sponheim

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Shelter with map – Heckenzeckenbank Picnic Area loop from Sponheim

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Shelter with map – Heckenzeckenbank Picnic Area loop from Sponheim

04:25

15.9km

280m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 2, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

Please check local regulations for:

Naturpark Soonwald-Nahe

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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664 m

Rest area with a view of Sponheim Monastery

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Rest area with benches and table between Sponheim and Burgsponheim.

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1.60 km

Evangelical Church Burgsponheim

Highlight • Religious Site

The church has an interesting design.
Unfortunately closed. 😪

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2.64 km

Parking lot and rest area

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Small hiking car park at the Ellerbach.

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8.29 km

Historic stone waymarker at the Daubach–Winterburg–Kirchberg junction

Highlight • Monument

these are always beautiful eyewitnesses

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9.64 km

Wackenbach pond

Highlight • Lake

there is really a lot of nature on the tour
but also beautiful

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15.7 km

Former Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Martin and St. Mary (Sponheim)

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The monastery founded by Count Stephan in 1101 was consecrated in 1123 and occupied by twelve monks from the Benedictine abbeys of St. Alban and St. Jacob near Mainz in …

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15.9 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

13.8 km

1.32 km

448 m

279 m

156 m

Surfaces

5.70 km

4.07 km

3.24 km

2.34 km

467 m

144 m

Elevation

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Highest point (410 m)

Lowest point (200 m)

Weather

Thursday 29 October

13°C

4°C

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Comments

November 12, 2022,Männerrunde (Blick auf Sponheim – Klosterkirche Sponheim Loop from Sponheim)

According to cultural historians, at the starting point (parking lot at the monastery) we see the most important building in the entire Nahe region. The church was completed in 1124 by Count Meginhard of Sponheim. The path now leads us down to the historic town hall, a neo-Gothic sandstone building, built around 1850. Here we turn sharply to the right …

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