Heiligenberg Thing Site – Monastery Trail loop from Handschuhsheim

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Baden-Württemberg

Heiligenberg Thing Site – Monastery Trail loop from Handschuhsheim

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Heiligenberg Thing Site – Monastery Trail loop from Handschuhsheim

01:55

5.62km

300m

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: September 10, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.20 km

Zollstockbrunnen and view of Heidelberg Castle

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Beautiful little dried out well. Next to it is a small rest area with a hut with benches and a wonderful view down to the Heidelberg Castle.

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2.80 km

Outer Celtic Rampart (Heiligenberg)

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Exciting history of the Heiligenberg area. Display boards provide useful information. Highly recommended!

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3.25 km

Thingstätte Heidelberg (Heiligenberg Amphitheater)

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A memorial and a memorial site in one. It is very impressive how well preserved this complex is. 400 of these building complexes were once planned, and 60 were ultimately built in Germany, Poland and Russia.

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3.39 km

Heiligenberg Thing Site

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The Heidelberg Thingstätte is an open-air stage on the Heiligenberg near Heidelberg that was built during the Nazi era, ostensibly based on the model of ancient Greek theaters.

The foundation stone for the "Thingstätte Heidelberg" was laid on May 30, 1934, and on June 22, 1935 it was opened under the new name "Feierstätte Heiligenberg" by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. It played an important role in the Thing movement, which quickly became insignificant. After the complex lay idle in the post-war years, occasional events were held there again and the name "Thingstätte" was generally used again. Until 2018 it was mainly used for unofficial Walpurgis Night celebrations. The complex is a protected cultural monument.

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3.54 km

St. Michael's Monastery ruins (Heiligenberg, Heidelberg)

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Beautiful monastery ruins, two towers are accessible, in addition to the beautiful view of the Rhine plain, you can get an overview of the ruins. You can explore everything nicely and the boards inform exactly where which rooms were.

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3.79 km

Inner Gate of the Celtic Ring Wall, Heiligenberg

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Outside the facility on the mountain, the hikers have immortalized themselves here...
Let's leave it at that 😉

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3.89 km

Monastery Trail

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At a signpost, the monastery path points up to the summit. At the next crossroads, the monastery path turns into the St. Michels circular path. Here a memorial stone indicates a "prehistoric settlement of the inner ring wall". A little further on, the path reveals the "Thingstätte", a monument to the recent past. The path circles the summit counter-clockwise and leads to the gate of the fenced summit. The wheelchair pilgrim comes to the entrance, then wide steps have to be negotiated. There is the floor plan of a Roman temple of Mercury in a Christian monastery to discover. Traces of Celts, Romans and Christians on the holy mountain.

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4.25 km

Bittersbrunnen

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A little hidden fountain. A few meters up the trail and then the fountain is in a hollow.

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5.62 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.40 km

1.18 km

670 m

245 m

109 m

Surfaces

3.29 km

1.31 km

390 m

374 m

137 m

107 m

Elevation

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Weather

Today

Friday 9 October

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11°C

89 %

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Comments

September 4, 2022,Blick auf Heidelberg – Klosterweg Runde von Mühltal

After a mostly messed up long weekend, the extended walk near the Heiligenberg with a short tour of the Thing site and the monastery ruins of St. Michael was a conciliatory conclusion! And then a nice cool non-alcoholic wheat beer hissed!

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