View of Tamm – St. Michael's Church loop from Landkreis Ludwigsburg

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Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Kraichgau-Stromberg

Landkreis Ludwigsburg

Asperg

View of Tamm – St. Michael's Church loop from Landkreis Ludwigsburg

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View of Tamm – St. Michael's Church loop from Landkreis Ludwigsburg

01:48

6.79km

70m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 1, 2026

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2.14 km

Memorial at the Former Poorhouse Markgröningen

Highlight • Monument

you go oneho over the historical area. Solid brick architecture of the poor houses, founded before 1800 together with other locations in Württemberg Hohenzollern, which later became institutions for the physically and mentally handicapped. The social legislation of the Bismark Empire was a great advance for the poor and the disabled. Under the Nazi Socialists, the disabled were assessed solely on the basis of their ability, whether they could participate in the work process in a relevant way, if not their "life not worth living" was forcibly ended in one of the extermination centers such as in Grafeneck. A memorial to the right of the entrance reminds the names of the home workers.

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2.65 km

Water Tower Between Asperg and Markgröningen

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The Hurst water tower is architecturally quite idiosyncratic but definitely worth seeing, and its silhouette can be seen from far away.

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3.82 km

View of Tamm

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Beautiful views of Tamm on the way to Hohenasperg. You can also enjoy a view of the Neckar Valley.

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4.26 km

Franzosenlinde Memorial

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The "French Linden Tree" between the Bastei and the vineyards commemorates the approximately 1,000 French prisoners of war who were imprisoned on the Hohenasperg between 1914 and 1918.

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4.38 km

Schubart Memorial, Hohenasperg

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Hohenasperg - Schubart Memorial - in the background, a tower of the Asperg waterworks.

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) was a poet, organist, composer, and journalist, and a fierce critic of the political situation of his time. He was imprisoned for ten years in Hohenasperg by Duke Karl Eugen without trial.

The "Schubart Memorial" was created in 1983 by stone sculptor Thomas Lorenz from Bietigheim.

A floor slab is embedded in front of the memorial (see second picture).

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4.82 km

Schwitzgässle Steps to Hohenasperg

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We walked down the stairs from Schwitzgässle.
But the stairs on the other side where we walked up were just as sweaty.

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5.95 km

St. Michael's Church

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The number 1557 – visible on the church's archway – is a date in the church's construction history: the church is said to have been completed around 1558. Many alterations had been made to the church up to that point. Around 1580, a new nave with a large choir was added to the existing choir loft, and the former south side of the nave was moved further south (to the present-day location in front of St. Michael's Church). In 1591, a passageway was created between the old and new choirs. The archway from the choir area into the sacristy bears this inscription. The dates 1611 at the top of the central church door and 1614 next to it on the stair tower testify to further construction on the church. It received a gallery.

During the Thirty Years' War on October 18, 1634, imperial troops set fire to the entirety of Asperg. The church was not spared either – it burned down, and the roof also caught fire. Reconstruction began in 1647. The local carpenter Geißel built the magnificent gallery. The year 1647 can be read in the carvings of the west gallery. To save the bell tower from complete decay, the Aspergers were allowed to fell 35 oak trees in the Osterholz forest in 1655. Numerous renovations and modernization projects took place over the next few centuries. The church was painted around the 1670s. Only three pictures on the north side were restored in 1959/60. They depict the Grabbing of Thorns by Christ, alongside Ecce Homo, the Entombment, and the Resurrection. The pulpit was built towards the end of the 17th century. The Baroque stucco pulpit is depicted as being carried by Moses with the Tablets of the Law. The pulpit itself is decorated with the four evangelists. The pulpit lid is crowned by the Archangel Michael and shows him piercing the dragon (evil) with his lance.

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6.79 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

4.19 km

2.06 km

491 m

< 100 m

Surfaces