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View from the Schwanberg – Speckfeld Castle — Tower Ruin loop from Volkach

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View from the Schwanberg – Speckfeld Castle — Tower Ruin loop from Volkach

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View from the Schwanberg – Speckfeld Castle — Tower Ruin loop from Volkach

03:42

55.9km

510m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 2, 2026

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Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 8.27 km for 16 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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1.72 km

Main Canal at Volkach

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The Main Canal is a navigable passage through the Main near Volkach in Lower Franconia. It shortens the southern part of the Main loop and, as a lock and power plant canal, is part of the Gerlachshausen barrage of the impounded federal waterway Main.

The 35 m wide canal, built between 1950 and 1957, branches off from the Main above the Volkach weir and runs 6 km in a southerly direction. Below the lock and hydroelectric power station in Gerlachshausen, it rejoins the natural course of the Main. The Main Canal is accompanied by state road 2271 and the Main Valley Cycle Path.

The construction of the Main Canal created the artificial wine island with the wine towns of Nordheim and Sommerach. The Altmain, which is navigable for small vessels, flows around the wine island over a distance of 12 km.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainkanal_(Volkach%29

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8.45 km

View of Münsterschwarzach Abbey and the Main River from the Main Bridge

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Beautiful main view from the bridge between Dettelbach and Schwarzach. From here, the monastery Münsterschwarzach towers conspicuously over the place.

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21.2 km

View from the Schwanberg

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The Schwanberg (until the 19th century also Schwabenberg or Schwam (m) berg) is a striking elevation (474 meters) of the Steigerwald in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia.

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22.7 km

View from Iphöfer Knuck

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Nice place with a good view

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25.4 km

Bibartweg Red Earth Trail

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Super Trail is really fun

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29.7 km

Speckfeld Castle — Tower Ruin

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To the northeast of Markteinersheim, Speckfeld Castle was built around 1200 by the Counts of Speckfeld on the old Nuremberg-Würzburg-Frankfurt Reichsstrasse (today's B 8). It was first mentioned in a document in 1226.
In 1412 Elisabeth von Hohenlohe gave the castle to the Limpurg taverns. Destroyed and plundered several times (in 1525 in the Peasants 'War and by the Swedes during the 30 Years' War in 1618/48), the castle was abandoned in 1693. The Limpurg taverns move into their new castle in Einersheim.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the castle came into the possession of the Counts of Rechtern-Limpurg-Speckfeld, but it was falling into disrepair. Today only a 15 m high wall of the former gate tower remains of the castle. The castle cellar is still inhabited: bats regularly hibernate here.
Source: baysf.de/de/wald-erkunden/ausflugsziel-tipps/die-burgruine-speckfeld-am-naturwaldreservat-speckfeld.html

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29.9 km

Speckfeldweg Singletrack Trail

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Really cool trail for shooting. The entrance is immediately to the left after the ruins. First around the ruins 👍😉!

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32.3 km

Village Pond in Birklingen

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Beautiful lake! There is a very good restaurant right on the shore called "Augustiner am See" with great food.

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39.2 km

Schloss Rüdenhausen

Castle

42.7 km

Schloss Schönborn

Castle

55.9 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

23.8 km

14.6 km

7.84 km

4.03 km

2.93 km

2.72 km

120 m

Surfaces

28.0 km

8.37 km

7.68 km

7.17 km

4.20 km

382 m

172 m

Elevation

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Highest point (460 m)

Lowest point (190 m)

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Wednesday 1 July

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View from the Schwanberg – Speckfeld Castle — Tower Ruin loop from Volkach

Main Canal at Volkach

View of Münsterschwarzach Abbey and the Main River from the Main Bridge

View from the Schwanberg

View from Iphöfer Knuck

Bibartweg Red Earth Trail

Speckfeld Castle — Tower Ruin

Speckfeldweg Singletrack Trail

Village Pond in Birklingen

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