Tour 9: Alsberg view – MTB in the Spessart Mountains

Best weather for a mountain bike tour through the nature park. Spessart. Many thanks to the helpers who created and maintain these great single trails. 😊👍🏻

The Hirschbornteiche ponds, which are beautifully situated in the countryside, the ascent to Alsberg, the Eselsweg, the Söhlchesweiher pond and the Orber border path are outstanding features of this tour. Forest paths and trails determine most of the route characteristics. After starting at the Salmünster sports field, the route leads to the district of Hausen. After a relatively short drive past Hausen Castle, you reach the Waldweiher nature reserve. A forestry path leads from here to the Hirschbornteiche ponds. At the end of the pond, the route leads to the other side of the valley, where an open oak and beech forest makes the tour entertaining until the ascent to Alsberg. After crossing the district road (K 888), the route goes very directly up to Alsberg on a forest path. If you can see the pilgrimage church in Alsberg, you have completed most of the ascent. There is only a short uphill section in the town and you have reached the highest point of the tour. You are rewarded with a wonderful view of the Kinzig Valley, the Vogelsberg and the Spessart. The second reward for the strenuous climb is the subsequent ride along the Eselsweg. The Eselsweg is a long-distance hiking trail through the Spessart. It takes its name from the donkey caravans in the Middle Ages that brought salt from the salt mines in Bad Orb and Fulda to Miltenberg for loading. After crossing the Eselsweg with the Spessartbogen, the tour follows it to the Söhlchesweiher, only to leave it again straight away. An undulating forestry path leads to the Orber border path. Via Haselberg and Große Kuppe, the route now goes down to Salmünster on varied sections of path, the last and longest reward of this tour. (Source:spessart-tourismus.de/detail/id=61eebc387e8c480c6a9689e4)

The Spessart Biking Tour No. 9 was my sixth: https://www.spessartbiken.de/spessartbiken/de/tourennetz/toureninformationen/alsberger_blick. I have never been disappointed, quite the opposite! Again today it was an all around great tour. Starting with the beautiful Hirschborn ponds, which you can drive around and which immediately offer a great experience of nature. But since you want to go up to Alsberg, you have to take the Way of the Cross, which is quite demanding. Nevertheless, this section was wonderful in this weather, despite the effort. After quickly leaving the small Alsberg, the long flow trail sections of the Eselsweg follow, which are also part of Tour No. 11 are. Flowtrail, that's exactly mine. I continue in Orber Gefilde and the Sölchesweiher, where I took a break in the quiet nature. Wonderful place! The further way towards the starting point in Salmünster is also determined by flowing sections and since you have already mastered most of the altitude difference by reaching Alsberg, it is mostly downhill, on the descent from Haselberg it is even quite decent. Top tour, maybe I'll go again. But there are still so many more unknown Spessart biking tours waiting. The dates of the tour are of course not correct. It should be correct: 01 hours 47 / 28.7 km / average 16.1 km/h / altitude difference 550 meters