Finding the path to summer fun in Weilerbach

***image1***The path to an awesome summer just might be a bike path.
In the Kaiserslautern County and neighboring areas, bicyclists find a lot of bicycle paths − some strictly for bikes and some that are combined with walking paths for hikers.

One path close by takes bicyclists through the union community of Weilerbach. The total route is 35 kilometers long.

Weilerbach officials recommend starting from the parking lot of the public swimming pool in Rodenbach (Waldfreibad).

***image2***From there, the route goes toward Mackenbach, where families with children can stop for a break on the playground. After driving through a forest and meadow area, the “Fünf-Eckstein,” bicyclists will reach a border mark of five communities. There, they can turn toward Kottweiler-Schwanden.

The main route leads to Fockenberg-Limbach where the 442-meter high Eulenkopf hill and the 562m Potzberg hill can be seen.

From Reichenbach-Steegen, the route continues on former railroad tracks to Schwedelbach. After riding along Erzenhausen and the Eulenkopf nature protection area, bicyclists will reach Samuelshof.  From there, the path goes on to Ziegelhütte and back to Rodenbach.

Along the whole route, bicyclists can park their bikes along the path.
For those wanting to push the bar, there is a very impressive, but more difficult, route that goes through Kollweiler and Eulenbis.

Sites worth stopping for are:

Weilerbach
•Medieval Catholic church from the transitional time between Romanticism and Gothic with splendid baptismal font from the 12th century
•Protestant church, one of the biggest village churches of the Pfalz
•Reinhardt-Blauth-Museum displaying the history of the area.

Mackenbach
•Musicians’ Museum
Reichenbach-Steegen
•Protestant church from the 13th century with early Gothic ceiling frescoes
•Catholic church from the 19th century made of local sandstone

Kollweiler
•Village church from the 15th century

Erzenhausen
•Stalactite cave
• Mine gallery

Eulenbis
•Eulenkopftower
•Beerweinmuseum (berry wine museum).

Rodenbach
•Sculpture route
•Gravesite (cairn) from 420 to 450 B.C.

For more information, visit www.weilerbach.de.
(Information provided by Weilerbach tourist office)