Altmühltal: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Altmühltal Cycle Route stands for cycling through the region, while the Altmühltal Panorama Trail offers a hiking route through the area. This appeals to travellers who would like to combine their time in the Altmühltal with cycling or hiking tours. You can rent a holiday apartment in the Altmühltal.

The Altmühltal is a vast landscape region in Bavaria connected with the Southern Franconian Jura. The Altmühl crosses the nature park and divides the Altmühltal into a northern and a southern section.

Landscape

The landscape of the Altmühltal includes limestone formations, caves, karst springs, juniper heathlands, beech forests, wetlands and river valleys along the Altmühl and Danube.

Experiences

The hiking route is 200 kilometres long, divided into ten stages, and offers views of the river and green hills.

It follows the Altmühl from Gunzenhausen to Kelheim and combines natural landscapes with regional attractions such as Pappenheim Castle and the Baroque town of Eichstätt.

Culture

The Altmühltal is home to historic towns, traditional monasteries and churches, the long-standing shepherding culture, as well as archaeological interest in fossils and Archaeopteryx. This appeals to travellers who would like to explore historical and archaeological topics.

A regional themed tour presents sacred buildings, Christian missionary history, art history, spiritual reflection and regional history.

Regional Cuisine

Regional culinary experiences are associated with ingredients from the region, direct marketers, breweries and distilleries in the Altmühltal.

Further Orientation

For further orientation, you can also use the pages on Bavarian Forest, Donau-Ries, Miesbach and Bavarian Swabia. In addition, pages on Inn-Salzach, Steigerwald, Würzburg and Munich are available.

Further Discoveries

Based on the reference point for the Altmühltal, approximately 1.3 kilometres away as the crow flies to the west is the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Eichstätt, the Jura Museum Eichstätt is approximately 1.4 kilometres away, Willibaldsburg is approximately 1.5 kilometres away, and Willibaldsberg Castle is approximately 1.4 kilometres away. Southwest of the reference point, Frauenberg is a nearby hill approximately 0.9 kilometres away as the crow flies. In the surrounding area, Hellerberg lies southeast of the reference point at approximately 7.3 kilometres, and Mühlberg lies west of the reference point at approximately 7.4 kilometres as the crow flies; in the wider area, Dachsbau, a cave reference point, is located northwest of the reference point approximately 18.8 kilometres away as the crow flies.

For the higher-level travel overview: Bavaria.