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Karlstein Rock Formation – Kirchberg Church loop from Regenstauf

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Karlstein Rock Formation – Kirchberg Church loop from Regenstauf

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Karlstein Rock Formation – Kirchberg Church loop from Regenstauf

02:17

8.08km

160m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 29, 2026

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100 m

Karlstein Castle Park

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Karlstein Castle Park

In the middle of the 19th century, August Graf von Drechsel and his wife Maximiliane Theodora commissioned the park design. The art gardener Ferdinand Junghänel drew up the plans for the “High Count von Drechsel's beautification facilities in Carlstein” dated winter 1845/46. The plans covered the entire village and supplemented the “Walks around Karlstein” that had already been laid out around 1828.
In the style of an English landscape park, the northern part is divided into a park-like area around the Hirschengraben, which is lined with forests and traversed by curved paths. Square-like expansions and dominant individual trees, smaller park architecture and bridges can be seen.
The southern part of the garden near the castle is characterized by the salon with a greenhouse and various roses and flower areas. From the stone pulpit you could enjoy the view of the Hirschengraben.
Since the 1960s, the district road has separated the originally 7 hectare park into a southern part and a northern part that is open to the public.
From 1972 to the present, this part has served as a nature trail. The OGV-Karlstein-Kirchberg carries out annual maintenance measures here.
Even today, the castle park is still owned by the Counts of Drechsel.

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1.64 km

View of the Upper Palatinate Countryside

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Simply awesome view!!

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2.12 km

Cup Stone

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Unusual stone shape with a round indentation.
You'll quickly pass it on the downhill, although it's just to the left of the path.

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2.55 km

Karlstein Rock Formation

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2.99 km

Chapel Near Drackenstein

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Small chapel with a bench and a beautiful view.

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5.40 km

Kirchberg Church

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Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary

We know little about the early construction history of the Kirchberg church. The mention of a pastor in “Chirchberg” in 1326 presupposes the existence of a church; this is definitely proven by the gravestone of Pastor Konrad, who died on October 16, 1344. While the choir and the 30 meter high tower belong to the late Middle Ages, it cannot be said to what extent there is older masonry in the nave or to what extent the nave rests on older foundations.
In 1763, Pastor Joseph Anton Schmid complained about the circumstances that the church was too small and dilapidated; these circumstances should lead to the church being rebuilt. A lack of money repeatedly led to delays, so that the consecration did not take place until August 26, 1787 - seventeen years after the start of the new building - by the Regensburg Auxiliary Bishop Valentin Anton von Schneid, the brother of the Hofmarksherr von Karlstein.
As simple as the external appearance is with the box-shaped ship, the steep gable roof and the four arched windows, the interior also appears reserved and elegant. Portals provide access from two sides, the southern one forming the main entrance. The eastern corners with the two side altars are rounded and framed by individual pilasters, the row of which also continues in the chancel. The upper wall is formed by a high, profiled beam.
The high altar, dated around 1760, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into heaven. The great Woman of the Secret Revelation stands as a baroque figure in the niche of the high altar and is flanked between the columns by the Princes of the Apostles Peter and Paul. God the Father with the globe, Christ with the cross on the bank of clouds and the Holy Spirit dove in the rays crown the altar structure.
The northern side altar was created in 1752 and decorated with the Jesuit saints Ignatius of Loyola and Aloysius of Gonzaga. The altarpiece shows St. Franz Xavier the missionary of East Asia. The southern side altar, donated in 1787, shows a portrait of St. on the altarpiece. Sebastian.
Today's ceiling painting shows the “Reception and Coronation of Mary”. It comes from the Munich painter Georg Wissmann and was created on the occasion of the interior renovation in 1939.

Source: Churches and chapels in the Regenstauf market

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