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Nature Education Garden Mindelheim – Mindelburg Castle loop from Mindelheim
RoutesHiking trails & RoutesSwabiaAllgäuUnterallgäuMindelheim
Nature Education Garden Mindelheim – Mindelburg Castle loop from Mindelheim
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Nature Education Garden Mindelheim – Mindelburg Castle loop from Mindelheim
01:38
5.90km
100m
Hiking
Easy hike. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: September 26, 2026
Waypoints
A
Start point
Bus stop
1
28 m
St. Michael's Church, Champagnat Square
Highlight • Religious Site
2
678 m
Glückstalerweg
Highlight • Structure
Along this lucky path, you can find these nice coins along the way.
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Tip by
3
1.16 km
Nature Education Garden Mindelheim
Highlight • Natural Monument
The local group of the Federal Nature Conservation Association in Mindelheim (Unterallgäu district) is particularly active! This group of nature lovers has spent many hours of voluntary work creating a nature education garden to provide visitors with information about native plants. The nature education garden was opened in 2007 and has been expanded since then. Today the garden (actually it is a whole small garden show) offers opportunities for learning, playing and relaxing for children and adults. Anyone who wants to take a trip to Mindelheim could combine a visit to the nature education garden with a visit to Mindelburg. The garden is not far from Mindelburg, at the foot of the castle hill.
Visitors to the Mindelheim nature education garden are best advised to leave their car in the car park by the outdoor pool and then walk south past the outdoor pool, the mini golf course and the "Pizzobello" pizzeria, then a short distance along the edge of the forest - and then the natural idyll is reached! The nature education garden stretches between the edge of the forest and meadows along a stream. The stream is included in the area. The center of the educational garden is an artificial pond, the "sky pond," a biotope for dragonflies and other insects that love moisture; there are benches on the banks of the pond and in other places on the site. On the circular path through the nature educational garden, visitors pass various carefully laid out biotopes, for example a rock garden planted with alpine flowers (including gentian), wet meadows and hedges, a meadow orchard and various flower beds (globus vulgaris, mulleins and much more...).
Source: bauernhofurlaub-ostallgaeu.de/naturlehrgarten-mindelheim.htm
Visitors to the Mindelheim nature education garden are best advised to leave their car in the car park by the outdoor pool and then walk south past the outdoor pool, the mini golf course and the "Pizzobello" pizzeria, then a short distance along the edge of the forest - and then the natural idyll is reached! The nature education garden stretches between the edge of the forest and meadows along a stream. The stream is included in the area. The center of the educational garden is an artificial pond, the "sky pond," a biotope for dragonflies and other insects that love moisture; there are benches on the banks of the pond and in other places on the site. On the circular path through the nature educational garden, visitors pass various carefully laid out biotopes, for example a rock garden planted with alpine flowers (including gentian), wet meadows and hedges, a meadow orchard and various flower beds (globus vulgaris, mulleins and much more...).
Source: bauernhofurlaub-ostallgaeu.de/naturlehrgarten-mindelheim.htm
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4
1.64 km
Wooden Pole Installation in Tiergarten Forest
Highlight • Structure
Station on the Glückstalerrunde in the beautiful “Tiergarten” forest area in the south of Mindelheim.
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Tip by
5
2.62 km
Mathildenruh Stone Sculpture
Highlight • Monument
Newly created especially for the Glückstaler round
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Tip by
6
3.27 km
Wild Bee Educational Trail
Highlight • Trail
The bee points the way to various information boards on the life and work of bees
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Tip by
7
3.35 km
Mindelburg Castle
Highlight • Castle
Super nice castle. Inside the courtyard you can walk through and see everything in peace. A restaurant awaits you right at the entrance.
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Tip by
8
3.52 km
Mindelburg Bergfried Observation Tower
Highlight • Castle
Mindelburg is a landmark of the Upper Swabian town of Mindelheim in the Bavarian district of Unterallgäu.
Mindelburg is located about 850 meters south-southwest of the old town of Mindelheim on the approximately 664 m above sea level high Georgenberg, a hill that drops steeply into the Mindel valley on three sides. The castle can be reached via the state road 2518, which runs immediately to the west.
It was long assumed that the castle was probably built on the Georgenberg in the second half of the 12th century, but recent findings point to an earlier date. As early as 1125, "Heinrich von Mindelburg" is mentioned, which suggests that the castle is correspondingly older. It was destroyed around 1305 and rebuilt in 1370 under Duke Friedrich von Teck.
In 1467, the Lords of Frundsberg took over the rule of the town and the castle. The family became famous primarily through Georg von Frundsberg, the "father of the Landsknechte," who was born here. As a commander, he went into battle for Emperor Maximilian I and Emperor Charles V.
In 1933, the National Socialist "Reich Peasant Leader" Walther Darré had the South German Peasant Leader School established in Mindelburg, which he opened with a large celebration for the town of Mindelheim at the 1st Swabian Peasant Day on November 11, 1933.
From 1949/50, Mindelburg served as a military hospital or hospital for the disabled. In 1950, it was rented to the publisher W. Sachon; the lease ended on July 1, 2021, and the castle returned to the town of Mindelheim. The town plans to make the castle accessible to the public again after a restoration and to house the local history museum there. Likewise, the apartment of the deceased publisher in the castle, which dates back to the 50s, is to be completely preserved and made accessible to the public.
Since October 2021, Mindelburg has been officially a "nationally significant monument" according to the State Office for Monument Preservation and thus stands in a row with famous structures such as Neuschwanstein Castle.
The 24-meter-high keep with the laterally attached stair tower can be climbed as an observation tower.
Next to the tower lies the 27-meter-deep castle well.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindelburg
Mindelburg is located about 850 meters south-southwest of the old town of Mindelheim on the approximately 664 m above sea level high Georgenberg, a hill that drops steeply into the Mindel valley on three sides. The castle can be reached via the state road 2518, which runs immediately to the west.
It was long assumed that the castle was probably built on the Georgenberg in the second half of the 12th century, but recent findings point to an earlier date. As early as 1125, "Heinrich von Mindelburg" is mentioned, which suggests that the castle is correspondingly older. It was destroyed around 1305 and rebuilt in 1370 under Duke Friedrich von Teck.
In 1467, the Lords of Frundsberg took over the rule of the town and the castle. The family became famous primarily through Georg von Frundsberg, the "father of the Landsknechte," who was born here. As a commander, he went into battle for Emperor Maximilian I and Emperor Charles V.
In 1933, the National Socialist "Reich Peasant Leader" Walther Darré had the South German Peasant Leader School established in Mindelburg, which he opened with a large celebration for the town of Mindelheim at the 1st Swabian Peasant Day on November 11, 1933.
From 1949/50, Mindelburg served as a military hospital or hospital for the disabled. In 1950, it was rented to the publisher W. Sachon; the lease ended on July 1, 2021, and the castle returned to the town of Mindelheim. The town plans to make the castle accessible to the public again after a restoration and to house the local history museum there. Likewise, the apartment of the deceased publisher in the castle, which dates back to the 50s, is to be completely preserved and made accessible to the public.
Since October 2021, Mindelburg has been officially a "nationally significant monument" according to the State Office for Monument Preservation and thus stands in a row with famous structures such as Neuschwanstein Castle.
The 24-meter-high keep with the laterally attached stair tower can be climbed as an observation tower.
Next to the tower lies the 27-meter-deep castle well.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindelburg
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5.90 km
End point
Bus stop
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4.53 km
820 m
477 m
< 100 m
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4.26 km
719 m
496 m
324 m
108 m
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