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Rittersberg Forest Trail – View of Hambach Castle loop from Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof

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Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate

Palatinate

Rittersberg Forest Trail – View of Hambach Castle loop from Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof

Moderate

5.0

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Rittersberg Forest Trail – View of Hambach Castle loop from Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof

03:47

12.0km

480m

Mountaineering

Moderate mountaineering route. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord

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Start point

Train Station

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85 m

Neustadt an der Weinstraße Central Station

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The entrance building was built in 1866, it is a late classical building with a hipped mansard roof and a neo-Renaissance facade from 1894. Not far from the station is …

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Neustadt an der Weinstraße Train Station

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Neustadt (Weinstr) Hauptbahnhof - until 1935 and from 1945 to 1950 Neustadt a / d. Haardt [3] - is the central station of the Rhineland-Palatinate middle-city Neustadt an der Weinstraße ... more on Wikipedia

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449 m

Pfalzbahn Museum

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The Palatinate Railway Museum, formerly Pfalzbahnmuseum and Neustadt Railway Museum, is located directly in a locomotive shed of the former railway depot at Neustadt Hauptbahnhof.

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1.31 km

Viewpoint

2.07 km

Red Bar Trail

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3.39 km

Ritterstein No. 248: Speierheld

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The Ritterstein lies between the Nollenkopf and the Rutschenberg. The name Speyerheld is derived from the Speyerhalde, a forest lane that steeply descends the border of the Speyer Haagwald to …

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4.04 km

View of Hambach Castle and the Rhine Plain from Hambacher Bergstein

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Beautiful view - also down to Hambach Castle. A small staircase takes you to the rock.

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6.02 km

Rittersberg Forest Trail

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Around the atonement cross and the Hohe Loog there are numerous dreamy paths through sparse pine forests.

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7.49 km

View of Hambach Castle

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The cradle of democracy in Germany.

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12.0 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.11 km

2.96 km

1.73 km

630 m

288 m

286 m

Surfaces

7.98 km

1.79 km

1.39 km

746 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (580 m)

Lowest point (140 m)

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Neustadt an der Weinstraße Central Station

Neustadt an der Weinstraße Train Station

Pfalzbahn Museum

Red Bar Trail

Ritterstein No. 248: Speierheld

View of Hambach Castle and the Rhine Plain from Hambacher Bergstein

Rittersberg Forest Trail

View of Hambach Castle

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