Amethyst Radweg

On this tour, you'll ride not only from highlight to highlight, but also from idea to idea. Each village has chosen something it wants to tell. The start and finish is the parking lot at the Amethyst-Welt in Maissau.

Via Klein Burgstall, you'll ride out to Eggendorf am Walde, known as the Venus village, and continue to Grübern with its Amethyst Chapel. In Wilhelmsdorf, everything revolves around herbs. Through Maissau, you'll continue to Oberdürnbach, where the Gottfried-von-Einem memorial commemorates the composer and the Rabl-Kreuz stands outside the village. In Unterdürnbach, the lavender village, the show garden awaits, and in the vineyards above it, the old Hiatahütte, where the wine guardian used to spend weeks until the harvest.

You'll ride a small loop through the village of Limberg, which stands for the theme of granite, and roll back towards Maissau. Here it's worth taking a short break at the lighthouse. It's located in the middle of the vineyards, with a beach chair in front of it, purple sand underneath, and a great view over the Schmidatal valley. The color will accompany you all day anyway, as Maissau has consistently coordinated planting, lighting, and design with the violet of the ribbon amethyst. Afterwards, you'll head back to the starting point at the Amethyst-Welt, which you can explore at the end.