Pedal to poetry on the Neckartal cycle path
The quartet of the “Romantic Four” – four castle towns of Neckarsteinach, Eberbach, Neckargemünd and Hirschhorn – stands for half-timbered and castle romanticism like hardly any other place in the Neckar Valley. The castles in Heidelberg and Mannheim tell of the history of the residence of the princes in the Electoral Palatinate. Heidelberg in particular is an epitome of romanticism. The land of poets and thinkers can be wonderfully discovered from the Neckartal cycle path: on the literary cycle paths you can “pedal to poetry” and experience the Schiller city of Marbach and Hölderlinstadt Lauffen in a very special way.
There is a castle on almost every rock
The historic towns on the banks of the Neckar are lined up like pearls on a chain. The residential and university town of Tübingen with Hohentübingen Palace, Stuttgart with its picturesque castles and the Ludwigsburg residential palace with one of the largest baroque palace complexes in Germany. On the hills around the Neckar Valley, numerous chapels such as the grave chapel on the Württemberg near Stuttgart and the Wurmlinger Chapel near Tübingen delight the eye of the beholder. The Neckar valley north of Heilbronn is lined with castles. There are particularly many between Eberbach and Heidelberg, with one perched on almost every rock here. Highlights are Hornberg Castle and the four-castle town of Neckarsteinach.
