The best traffic-free bike rides around Nagold

Beautiful, well-paved stretch along the Nagold with a slight incline towards Nagold...

The Bösinger Wasserhäusle was a pumping station and was used to transport fresh spring water from a source in the Waldach valley via cast iron pipes to the village of Bösingen (a district of the municipality of Pfalzgrafenweiler), located 1.4 km away and 140 meters higher up. The pumps were driven by the water power of the Waldach. A water wheel with a diameter of six meters was used. The facility went into operation in 1894. In 1911, it was supplemented by an 8 hp gasoline engine, which could now also drive the pumps during low water levels in the Waldach. In 1948, it was connected to the power grid via a transformer station, after which a newly installed electric motor could serve as a backup drive. The Bösingen's own water supply was taken out of service in 1991 due to drinking water contamination. The entire facility, including the weir, the power channel, and the pumping station, has been protected as a cultural-historical monument since 2000. The pumping station can be visited all day on the Day of the Open Monument. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6singer_Wasserh%C3%A4usle

The Waldach is an almost 25 km long river in western Baden-Württemberg in the transition area between the Northern Black Forest and the Gäu, which flows into the river Nagold in the town of Nagold in the district of Calw from the right and south. The Waldach is a small river on the eastern edge of the Northern Black Forest towards the Upper Gäu, which drains a landscape triangle framed by the watercourses of the Upper Nagold to the north, the Upper Neckar to the southeast, and its tributary the Glatt, in a generally northeastern direction, with an approximate arc to the northwest, towards the Nagold. The Waldach originates in the municipality of Waldachtal, named after it, from some small streams. The Schneckenbächle, the official upper course[4], springs from the source furthest from the mouth, about 1.5 km south-southwest of the center of the village of Tumlingen, in the municipality, and at about 635 m above sea level, shortly before a strip of forest where the border with the neighboring municipality of Schopfloch to the southwest runs. The initially northeastern course in a flat, straight valley floor already turns to a north-northwesterly course before the village boundary; in and shortly after Tumlingen, the stream receives two larger left tributaries, the Weiherbach and the Heppersbach, which still originate beyond the border in Schopfloch territory. Here it also enters the Northern Black Forest, characterized by the colorful sandstone, from the natural region of the Upper Gäue, characterized by Muschelkalk in the underground. The Waldach then winds its way through the village of Lützenhardt, the hamlet of Vesperweiler, the village of Cresbach, and the hamlets of Ober- and Unterwaldach of the municipality, now on a northeastern course in a valley deepened by about 80 meters towards the wooded and interspersed with cleared patches marginal heights, above which, shortly before the last hamlet, the Rüdenberg castle ruin stands on a left confluence spur. Afterwards, it enters the municipal area of Pfalzgrafenweiler, whose central namesake settlement lies to the left on the height, and under forest slopes, after the Vörbach ruin, located on another left confluence spur, the narrowing valley floor also fills with forest, where no significant road runs anymore. For the next four and a half kilometers of its northeastern course, above which a viewing tower located to the left above the valley on the site of the Mantelberg ruin offers a view, the following Bösinger Mühle of Pfalzgrafenweiler is the only settlement in the valley, .... Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldach

Beautiful place with a magnificent view

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Weir on the Waldach, 300-meter-long drive channel, iron, backward-acting water wheel with spur gear transmission, 6 meters in diameter (originally lined with wooden paddles), 3 meters of head in the drive channel, pump output: 3-5 HP depending on water inflow from the drive channel, double-acting plunger pump from Maschinenfabrik Esslingen from the year 1893 with a high-performance suction and delivery pump and pressure vessel. In 1991, the plant was shut down as a private water supply due to contaminated spring water. Depending on the water level of the Waldach, the pumping station managed to pump 160,000 liters of fresh spring water directly into the houses and into the water reservoir in Bösingen, 2.3 km away and 140 meters higher, in 8 to 14 hours. The spring yields 1-2 liters per second depending on the season.

The Waldach is a river just under 25 km long in western Baden-Württemberg in the transition area between the Northern Black Forest and Gäu. It flows into the town of Nagold in the district of Calw from the right and from the south into the Nagold. The confluence is located at the end of the Nagold knee opposite the Schlossberg with the ruin Hohennagold at less than 400 m above sea level. In total, the Waldach is 24.681 km long and has a catchment area of around 157 km². Its largest tributary is the Steinach, which alone contributes about 53.6 km² to the catchment area.

Great view from the bike path over Altingen, Kayh and Mönchberg to the Schönbuch