The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Pfalzgrafenweiler

Beautiful single trail path 🏞🥾 - Below the Vörbach ruin 🏰 / Nördlinger Hütte - Pfalzgrafenweiler - LKR. Freudenstadt

Maschenpfad Experience trail - Maschenpfad An experience trail to marvel at with currently 13 stations over approx. 2.5 km, based on an idea by Anne Krimmer. A colorful world of animals and plants made of crocheted and knitted motifs accompanies you through the forest. The start is at Schloßwald at the barrier of Nördlinger Hütte, continuing over the Zick-Zack-Weg to the end of the path below the Mandelberg ruins. The unraveled story of the Knitterbibus Can be seen as the Maschenpfad in the Schlosswald in Pfalzgrafenweiler. Sources: https://www.pfalzgrafenweiler.de/tourismus-freizeit/erlebniswege/maschenpfad https://wollklunker.blogspot.com/

The Vörbach ruin is a ridge castle near the municipality of Pfalzgrafenweiler in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg, above the Waldach valley. Remains of the keep, the shield wall, and a flanking tower have been preserved. The castle is first mentioned in a document in 1140 as the property of the Counts Palatine of Tübingen. The brothers Albrecht and Diem von Steinhilben were named as the first named owners in 1330. Their father Dietrich von Steinhilben likely received the castle as a fief from the Count Palatine. In 1360, Vörbach was sold by Count Burkhard to Count Palatine Ruprecht I. of the Palatinate. The complex was sold by Count Otto I. in 1440 to Counts Ludwig I. and Ulrich of Württemberg. The fief was granted to the Lords of Emershofen until 1483. They sold Vörbach for 1,800 guilders to the Lords of Ehingen. In 1485, Jörg von Ehingen was enfeoffed with Vörbach by Count Eberhard im Bart. Rudolf von Ehingen sold, among other things, the castle in 1498 to Hans von Neuneck zu Glatt. Wildhans von Neuneck sold the Vörbach castle estate in 1625 for 70,000 guilders to the Duke of Württemberg. After the great village fire of Pfalzgrafenweiler on April 24, 1798, the stones were used to rebuild the town. In 1906, the Schwarzwaldverein built the Nördlinger Hütte on a tower stump of the surrounding wall, named after a founding member, as a resting and shelter hut. It was last renovated in 1990 and is now used as the clubhouse of the Schwarzwaldverein Pfalzgrafenweiler. A curved ditch cuts off the castle site from the corner of the mountain. The foundation walls of the square keep are found on a hill. Rough-hewn ashlar blocks were used to build the tower, suggesting a late Staufen construction. The exact height is not known, but is estimated to be around 30 meters. A large castle complex with numerous outbuildings can be seen on a historical forest map from 1584. A description from 1625 mentions a summer house, a gatekeeper's house, cattle and horse stables, and a well, among other things. Two buildings used as cattle stables and a sheep barn were located outside the castle. No remains of these are visible anymore. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruine_V%C3%B6rbach

Beautiful playground on the Schlossweg 🏞🏰🥾 - Pfalzgrafenweiler - LKR. Freudenstadt

Super beautiful view with great small infrastructure (lying and table places)

The Nördlinger Hütte in Pfalzgrafenweiler was built in 1906 by the Schwarzwaldverein on the remains of Burg Vörbach and named after its chairman Julius Nördlinger. Since 1990 it has been renovated several times, most recently in 2019. Today it serves as a club house and resting place for hikers. Burg Vörbach was already mentioned in 1140, changed owners several times and came to the municipality in 1625. After a fire in 1798, its stones were used for the reconstruction of the town, so that only a few remains are preserved today.

4 circular hikes starting from the parking lot at the Waldsägmühle

The ideal place to take a break...