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Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz

View of Kollermühle loop from Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz

Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz

View of Kollermühle loop from Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz

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View of Kollermühle loop from Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz

01:59

32.0km

310m

Gravel riding

Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 22, 2026

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After 25.3 km for 1.75 km

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8.30 km

Barbaraberg Pilgrimage Church and Chestnut Avenue

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a former pilgrimage church worth seeing - unfortunately left to decay .... What a shame !!!

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8.45 km

View of Kloster Speinshart and St. Barbara Church ruins from Barbaraberg

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From the Barbaraberg you have a beautiful view of the Speinshart monastery, to which the pilgrimage church belongs, and the surrounding area. The Church of St. Barbara is unfortunately left to decay, a pity.

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8.63 km

Barbaraberg Pilgrimage Site and Ruins of St. Barbara Church

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Great former pilgrimage church on the Mirga. Under the abbot Dominikus von Lieblein was here between 1741 and 1756 in honor of St. Barbara built a church in the Rococo style. The consecration was made on August 26, 1756 by the bishop of Regensburg, Freiherr von Stingelheim. He also donated a relic of St. Barbara. The plan for the building came from the Speyerhärt Premonstratensian Hugo Strauss. The church building was cross-shaped and had five altars. At the corners of the cross arms were two-storey side rooms, which were used as oratories. The barrel vault of the nave was adorned with images from the life of St. Barbara. Above the entrance to the church is the coat of arms of the abbot Dominic of Lieblein. The ensemble was also used as the summer residence of the monastery. The pilgrimages to the Barbaraberg were resumed and in 1760 even a Barbaraberg prayer brotherhood was founded. In the course of secularization in 1803 and the Barbarakirche was closed and sold. The miraculous image and the barbarian relics remained in place, the rest of the furnishings were sold to other parishes. Because of the damage to the roof in 1888 the Vierungskuppel and the interior were demolished. In 1914, the church was partially cremated by a lightning strike. This is still reminiscent of the Barbara statue in the gable of the facade, which has since been headless. In 1919, the Munich Cathedral Chapter Michael Hartig the remains and had a small chapel built, which was consecrated in 1921.

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10.4 km

Forest Trail in Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

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The upper section is a bit washed out and has deeper tracks, but the descent towards Zettlitz is still well-ridden;

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18.5 km

Beaver Dam in Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

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Some Bieber artwork on display along this route

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19.1 km

Forest Trail in Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

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21.0 km

View of Kollermühle

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Kollermühle - a mill in isolation
The Kollermühle is located on the Creußen and was first mentioned in documents in 1577. The old mill has only been part of Grafenwöhr since 1946, after the dissolution of the municipality of Thomasreuth.
As can be seen in historical plans, the water for the Mühlbach was diverted from the slowly flowing Creußen at about the height of Bärnwinkel. The length of the mill canal was almost 500 meters. Today this body of water can still be recognized as the Kollermühlgraben.

The name Kollermühle refers to the iron industry in the Middle Ages. There were numerous iron processing companies on the Haidenaab, which needed a lot of fuel to stoke their furnaces. There were several charcoal kilns around Grafenwöhr. Field or family names such as Koller, Köhler or Meiler indicate this. There was no permanent miller family at the Kollermühle; it had an eventful history. The reason for this was the mill's remote location, which only offered the miller a meager living.

The miller Lobenhofer is recorded at the Kollermühle from 1833 to 1848. He became sadly known nationwide for a capital crime. He had a lover and child in Amberg and wanted to get rid of his wife. Several attempts failed, so that he finally sent his wife to Amberg with money to pay a bill for him. In what is now the military training area near Röthelweiher, hired murderers waited for the Kollermühlen woman and strangled her. The perpetrators and the Kollermühlen were brought to justice and beheaded in Amberg. Until 1985, a shrine at the crime scene commemorated the crime that was to accompany the Kollermühle for many decades.

The mill was not blessed with the murder of the miller's wife. Five changes of ownership are recorded before a miller's wife, Lederer, tried her luck there. She married three times, the first two men died and it was only her third husband, a Speckner from the long-established miller family at the Schaumbachmühle, who gave her a son. This Josef Speckner was to be the last miller at the Kollermühle. He sold the property in 1919 on the grounds that since the murder of the Kollermüller's wife, there had been no luck in the house and no man at the Kollermühle lived to be older than 45.

Finally, in 1919, the property became a state-owned moorland farm under the management of the Pressath Forestry Office.

(Source: City of Grafenwöhr)

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23.8 km

Grafenwöhr Historic Town Hall

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Historic Town Hall pilloryed

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32.0 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

19.4 km

3.90 km

3.70 km

3.45 km

1.22 km

304 m

Surfaces

18.2 km

10.1 km

3.60 km

187 m

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Highest point (540 m)

Lowest point (410 m)

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Tuesday 19 May

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77 %

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View of Kollermühle loop from Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz

Barbaraberg Pilgrimage Church and Chestnut Avenue

View of Kloster Speinshart and St. Barbara Church ruins from Barbaraberg

Barbaraberg Pilgrimage Site and Ruins of St. Barbara Church

Forest Trail in Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

Beaver Dam in Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

Forest Trail in Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

View of Kollermühle

Grafenwöhr Historic Town Hall

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