Volkacher Mainschleife – Volkach Market Square and Fountain loop from Bergtheim

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Volkacher Mainschleife – Volkach Market Square and Fountain loop from Bergtheim

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Volkacher Mainschleife – Volkach Market Square and Fountain loop from Bergtheim

02:40

40.7km

270m

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: October 1, 2026

This route includes a ferry crossing

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 18.4 km for 86 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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8.56 km

View of Volkacher Mainschleife near Prosselsheim

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What a beautiful view! Here you can relax and enjoy the view.

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12.8 km

Vineyards of Nordheim am Main

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Largest wine-growing community of the Franconian wine-growing region with innumerable winegrowing villages, which invite to the tasting. The small streets between the pretty vineyards and cottages are worth a detour.

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15.5 km

View of the Volkacher Mainschleife

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Who did not already know:
a larger river meandering landscape does not exist in Bavaria.

More white Wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainschleife_(Volkach)

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18.1 km

Volkacher Mainschleife

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Volkach is a very beautiful little town. There is also a huge canoe rental on the Main.

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18.6 km

Volkach Market Square and Fountain

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The wine town of Volkach is the center of the Mainschleife and looks back over more than 1,100 years of local history, all in the name of Frankenwein. Take a …

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18.8 km

Upper Gate, Volkach

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Das Obere Tor (auch Sommeracher Tor, Diebenturm, Adresse Oberer Markt 1, früher Hausnummer 30) im Süden der Stadt ist Teil der Stadtbefestigung von Volkach. Seine Höhe macht es zu einem …

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18.9 km

Volkach Town Hall

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The former administrative buildings are spread throughout the old town. Only the town hall at the front of the market square is still used by the city administration today. A …

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20.1 km

View of Maria im Weingarten Pilgrimage Church

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The pilgrimage church is idyllically located in the middle of the vineyards above the Main. In the late Gothic church you can admire the wooden carved “Madonna in the Rosary” by Tilman Riemenschneider.

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23.7 km

Sandgrasheiden am Elgersheimer Hof

Nature Reserve

31.3 km

Wipfelder Mainaue bei St.Ludwig

Nature Reserve

40.7 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

13.9 km

13.1 km

6.78 km

6.70 km

138 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

27.1 km

6.06 km

5.35 km

1.06 km

822 m

217 m

Elevation

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Highest point (300 m)

Lowest point (190 m)

Weather

Monday 12 October

13°C

2°C

29 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 8.0 km/h

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Comments

September 13, 2022,Weingut Schmitt - Volkach Rundweg durch Maintal

Today we made a nice tour from the Schmitt winery, first through vegetable fields and then between wine fields on the Altmain. A tractor with a trailer full of vines drove on the small Main ferry. Here the farmer gave me a grapevine "Domina". Sugar sweet grapes.
Then on the very well-developed Main cycle path through Volkach (very cute little …

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