View of the Clemens Chapel – Clemens Chapel loop from Lorch (Rhein)
View of the Clemens Chapel – Clemens Chapel loop from Lorch (Rhein)
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View of the Clemens Chapel – Clemens Chapel loop from Lorch (Rhein)
01:41
20.7km
410m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The route includes a crossing by ferry. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: April 30, 2026
This route includes a ferry crossing
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Includes a ferry crossing
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After 425 m for 182 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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516 m
Rhine River ferry crossing
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1.53 km
Hilchenhaus
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1.69 km
Strunk Tower (Strunk Round Tower)
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Due to the dangerous rapids at the Binger Loch, Lorch was an important transshipment point for ships traveling up and down the Rhine. To avoid the rapids, goods were unloaded and reloaded in the Wisper estuary, which had been developed into a harbor, and transported overland via the so-called Merchants' Route from Lorch to Rüdesheim and back.
The Strunk served not only as a defensive tower, but also as a prison.
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View of the Strunk Tower
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The upper floor of the tower and the platform can be reached via a bulging staircase tower. The walls are made of quarry slate and sandstone and have four blind panels covered with pointed arches with small square windows or keyholes. The dungeon was once a hole in the vault.
The tower was restored in 2005 and 2006 and can now be visited again by appointment.
There is a wedding room on the first floor. From there you can still look down into the former dungeon through a hatch in the floor, although this is now blocked off with bars.
A small information center on the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley has now been set up there, which can be reached via a new entrance from the outside.
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14.5 km
Bench with a view of Pfalzgrafenstein Castle and the Rhine Valley
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15.1 km
Engweger Kopf und Scheibigkopf bei Lorch
Nature Reserve
16.3 km
View of the Rhine Valley at Lorchhausen
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16.6 km
View of the Clemens Chapel
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17.8 km
Clemens Chapel
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20.7 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
10.8 km
4.19 km
2.92 km
1.52 km
1.04 km
187 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
8.99 km
5.73 km
3.91 km
1.74 km
318 m
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Elevation
Highest point (420 m)
Lowest point (70 m)
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Saturday 30 May
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