The best traffic-free bike rides around Cadolzburg

In the summer, the Klosterhofspiele (Monastery Courtyard Plays) take place in the monastery's inner courtyard. Each year, there's a play for children and usually an entertaining classic for adults. Storks clatter from the roof every now and then during the performance. Tip: Bring a cushion from home.

It's quite narrow, so oncoming traffic isn't actually required to use it because it's too narrow, and there's no clearance from the road outside of built-up areas. Getting on and off in heavy traffic is quite tricky. I use it, but it's not an added benefit.

Langenzenn passed into the possession of the Nuremberg burgraves from the House of Hohenzollern around 1248. The monastery, dedicated to Saint Mary, was founded in 1409 by John III and Frederick VI, burgraves of Nuremberg; it was dissolved in 1533 during the Reformation. The monastery, with its Gothic cloister, has been preserved.

Super beautiful secondary route, no traffic, idyllic landscape

A beautiful town with the castle as its highlight. The castle is open in the summer from Tuesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The forecourt and the castle garden are freely accessible. There is an admission fee for the castle itself and the exhibitions. As of 2025, the fee is €7 per person. But it's definitely worth it.

Cadolzburg Castle is an impressive medieval fortress perched on a prominent rocky outcrop above the town of the same name in Bavaria. Its history dates back to the 12th century, and for a long time it was an important base for the burgraves of Nuremberg, later known as the Hohenzollerns. The castle served not only as a defensive structure but also as an administrative center and temporary residence. Today, the castle houses a modern interactive museum called "HerrschaftsZeiten!" (HerrschaftsZeiten!), which vividly conveys the history of the Hohenzollerns in Franconia and Brandenburg.

Forms the bridge to the castle gate.

The town was probably founded around 800. In a document that was written between 1132 and 1150, the sale of the goods of the Bamberg canon "Volmar in Tefersendorf" in Ketteldorf to the Heilsbronn monastery was confirmed. This is also the first documented mention of the place.[5] The defining word of the place name is the Slavic personal name Dobriš. In 1339, the brothers Conradt and Burkhard Pfefferbalg sold land in "Teferßdorf" to the Heilsbronn monastery, which they had received from Count Gottfried von Hohenlohe.[6] From 1566 to 1818, the Nuremberg patrician Scheurl had a seat in the town. Towards the end of the 18th century, there were eleven properties in Defersdorf (castle, four farms, a half-farm, two estates, a small farm, a brickworks). The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach judgeship of Roßtal. The Scheurl von Defersdorf family had the village and community authority as well as the manorial authority over all properties.[7] In 1799 there were still eleven properties in the town.[8] From 1797 to 1808 the town was under the jurisdiction of the Cadolzburg Justice and Chamber Office. As part of the municipal edict, Defersdorf was assigned to the tax district of Großweismannsdorf, which was formed in 1808, and to the rural community of Großweismannsdorf, which was founded in the same year. The entire town was under the voluntary jurisdiction of the Defersdorf Patrimonial Court until 1848.[9] As part of the regional reform in Bavaria, Defersdorf was incorporated into Roßtal on May 1, 1978. Source: Wikipedia