On the chapel tour through the Pfaffenwinkel

There are 564 bicycle parking spaces and a DB Fahrrad Service Station in the immediate vicinity of the station.

DB Fahrrad Service Station is the place to go for independent minor repairs to your bikes, which can be carried out free of charge. The station has air pumps for all common valve types as well as tools for small repairs.

With the DB Rad+ app, kilometres cycled in participating cities can be collected and then exchanged for discounts or rewards with exclusive partners.

If you are travelling without your own bike, you can have an e-bike delivered to the station in Weilheim via www.eradel.de.

If you are travelling as a group and need several bikes, the agency eradel.de, based in Murnau, will deliver e-bikes to Weilheim train station during the summer season and pick them up again there. The daily price for an e-trekking bike is 36 euros, for an e-mountain bike 40 euros. There is also a delivery charge. Please enquire about the daily availability of bikes and opening hours before travelling.

From Bahnhofplatz, turn left into Bahnhofstraße and then right into Münchner Straße. From here, cycle left before the Apostelkirche church into Krumpperstraße in the direction of the cemetery, where you will find the chapel of St Salvator and St Sebastian.

With the cemetery chapel of St Salvator and St Sebastian, built in the 15th century and extended a century later, Weilheim has a unique testimony to medieval architecture. Betberg, located north-east of Weilheim's old town centre, served as a cemetery for the plague victims during the great plague epidemic of 1349. In 1449, a pious widow named Seitz had a chapel built there, which was extended by a choir in 1481. In 1521, the cemetery, then located in the town centre, was moved outside the town gates to the site of the former plague cemetery and the chapel became the cemetery church. The ceiling paintings created by Elias Greither the Elder between 1591 and 1615 depict scenes of the Passion of Christ, which today, after being uncovered, are only incomplete.

From Krumpperstraße, turn left into Römerstraße at the next but one junction. Now cycle along the historical part of the Brenner-Augsburg route from the Roman Empire for a while before you come to Deutenhausener Straße via Hardtkapellenstraße and Narbonner Ring. Keep left here and follow the signs that lead you along the road through the wide Angerbach valley to Deutenhausen. In the centre of the small village is the charming parish church, whose onion dome greets you from afar.

The church in Deutenhausen, dedicated to St John the Baptist, can look back on a long history. It was probably built around 1083 and was rebuilt shortly before 1500, then again in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its late medieval core has been preserved. Fine, colourful stucco tendrils cover the ceiling and frame the popular ceiling paintings. A pavilion-like rococo high altar houses the miraculous image of the Mother of God created by Hans Leinberger around 1527. Of particular interest are the votive picture from 1733 in the choir with the first depiction of a maypole in the Weilheim region and the folding confessional.

Now continue in the direction of Marnbach. After about 250 metres, leave Marnbacher Straße and turn left into Riederstraße. You can see the St Michael field chapel on the left. This field chapel was built on the so-called Egerriederanger in 1717. The choir was added in 1900. It houses a small stucco marble altar from the end of the 18th century.

Shortly after Marnbach, it is worth taking a detour to the left to the "Wieshof", where you can visit Elisabeth Doll's lovingly designed natural garden with numerous medicinal plants and historical herbs and sample delicacies such as homemade mustard, vinegar and liqueurs. To do this, you should keep left about 150 metres after the Egerrieder chapel. The tour then continues through the Hardt landscape in the direction of Hardtwiese.

The Hardt, located between Weilheim, Magnetsried and Haunshofen, presents itself as a very varied landscape with elongated drumlins (from the Irish "droim": ridge), which were once given their typical teardrop shape by glacial ice sliding over them. Between the dry hills with nutrient-poor grassland are damp depressions in which bogs were able to develop.

The name "Hardt" means nothing other than the right of common use by the so-called Hardtgenossen. In the past, the Hardt landscape was utilised in a variety of ways. This mainly included timber utilisation, pig fattening and forest grazing for cattle and horses. Peat was extracted from the raised bogs for heating, and litter for the cattle stables was obtained from the fenland areas. So-called litter meadows were created, a habitat for numerous rare plant and animal species. This close-knit combination of landscape elements is probably unique in Germany. Large areas of the Hardt are now nature or landscape conservation areas.

Change the route description "Hardtlandschaft" as follows: Via a gravelled path and the tarmac Hardtstraße road, you reach the Hardtkapelle chapel from 1865/66 and the Way of the Cross, which is well worth seeing. The footprint of the devil is said to be immortalised in the chapel, where legend has it that he appeared around 1250.

Now cycle down into the Grünbach valley and from Bauerbach back uphill to Haunshofen. There we turn left at St Gallus into Tahlfeldstraße towards Wilzhofen. On the way you have a beautiful view of the Grünbach valley. Pass under the railway bridge to reach Wilzhofen. Away from the marked path, on a small hill, you will find the church of St Valentin, which is essentially late Gothic and was rebuilt in Baroque style. For refreshments, it is worth making a detour to the Guggemos inn, which can be reached at the end of the village via Bahnhofsallee. (Bahnhofsallee 12, 82407 Wilzhofen, tel. 088 12524).

After the subway of the B2 motorway, continue to Wielenbach. Continue along Raistinger Straße to the Ammer-Amper cycle path and then along the eastern bank of the river back to Weilheim. At Schützenstraße, turn left towards the town centre. After the railway and pedestrian bridge, a path on the left leads to Bahnhofsgasse, which takes you back to the station.

If you like, you can sweeten your waiting time with a stroll through Weilheim's charming old town centre: the winding alleyways with magnificent old patrician houses are only a 10-minute walk from the station.