Radwanderweg Vom Main zur Rhön Etappe 4

Stage four (54 km) of the 265-kilometer multi-day tour along the Franconian Rhön rivers.

From Fladungen, the route turns southwards. Along the High Rhön, it passes through ancient farming villages to Oberelsbach, home to the Bavarian Rhön Nature Parks and the Bavarian administration of the biosphere reserve with the information centre Haus der Langen Rhön. The Tobacco Pipe Museum and the Valentin-Rathgeber Museum (named after the famous Baroque composer from Oberelsbach) are located nearby. Bischofsheim and Kreuzberg are not only geographically connected but also form a tourist unit. Here the climb begins to the pass between the Brend and Sinn valleys. Shortly after Oberweißenbrunn, this climb is overcome and the route descends, mostly along paved cycle paths past the Schwarze Berge information centre down to Bad Brückenau, the last spa town on the route.

 

Length: 53.7 km

Elevation gain: 572 m

Duration: 3:35 hours

Highest point: 658 m

Start location: Fladungen

Characteristics: easy to moderately difficult multi-day cycling tour on mostly very well rideable paths with a longer ascent

Access: by car via the A 71 Mellrichstadt exit; by train from Schweinfurt or Erfurt to Mellrichstadt

Experience value: high (great nature and landscape experience); <br />Worth seeing: Fladungen, Bischofsheim, bike museum in Staatsbad Brückenau

Signposting: the route is marked with white-green signposts indicating destinations and distances

Literature: Jochen Heinke 'By Bicycle and Luggage from the Main to the Rhön' Parzellers Buchverlag Fulda ISBN 978-3-7900-0393-2; Fritsch cycling map Nature Park and Biosphere Reserve Rhön ISBN3-86116-568-6