To fortress walls and residential palaces
Explore Lichtenau Fortress, idyllic villages and the royal seat of Ansbach with its courtyard garden and historic old town on this hike in Middle Franconia - nature, culture and enjoyment all in one!
Sachsen bei Ansbach
5 h
18 km
This hiking tour through Romantic Franconia fulfils three wishes at once: nature, culture and enjoyment. Experience typical Franconian villages, the Lichtenau fortress, a rustic bubbling spring and the royal seat of Ansbach with its courtyard garden and historic town centre.
The 17-kilometre tour is easy to manage with a normal level of fitness. The paths are mostly firm, but depending on the weather, it can be wet in some places. Many flat sections in river valleys make the route comfortable, with only a few short climbs to contend with. A few rooty trails through the beautiful mixed forest provide variety.
This tour is a "VGN leisure tip" and was created in co-operation with the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association.
A hiking tour for nature lovers, culture vultures and explorers
Start and end station
Start station
Bahnhof Sachsen bei Ansbach
4 tour steps
18 km / 5 Stunden
End station
Bahnhof Ansbach
Our tip: Please make sure to check your train connection and the expected capacity before you start your journey.
Schedule
Tour starts on Bahnhof Sachsen bei Ansbach
Direction
Leave Sachsen railway station (near Ansbach) towards Bahnhofstraße and turn left immediately. Follow the cycle path signpost for Lichtenau for 1.1 km downhill - with a beautiful view over the village in the valley.
After a short walk, you will pass the Evangelical Lutheran fortified church of St Alban, whose predecessor - a wooden church - was built around the year 800 when the village was founded. The museum in the church tower can be visited on request.
Immediately after the church, turn right - following the route into Volkersdorf and finally onto the Rezatweg. This leads out into the open countryside of the Franconian Rezat valley.
Follow the Lichtenauer Weg signpost along a romantic meadow path.
You cross the Rezat on a narrow footbridge. In the Rezat valley, we pass "Eberhard's Goose Garden" and finally reach Lichtenau.
Direction
Marktplatz (Oberes Torhaus)
91586
Lichtenau
Direction
Direction
Promenade 27
91522
Ansbach
