Discover Rülzheim: Activities, Chapel and Tour

Rülzheim offers a variety of ways to plan your stay: the alla hopp! activity and meeting area combines opportunities for exercise with play facilities, the Marienkapelle chapel on Almosenberg is a place to visit, and the Discovery Tour follows the Klingbach Cycle Path through the town toward Hördt. This gives you the choice between getting active at a fixed location, visiting a chapel and taking a bike tour.

Exercise and sightseeing in Rülzheim

The alla hopp! area is open year-round, including Sundays and public holidays, from sunrise to sunset, and is free to access. Its selected equipment promotes mobility, coordination, endurance and strength and is designed for all generations. There are also opportunities for children aged around six to twelve to play freely and creatively, run around, climb, traverse overhead bars and balance. This means the area offers different kinds of activities: exercise equipment on one side and open-ended play activities on the other. If you are travelling with several generations, you can take these offerings into account when planning your day. Operational details may change; check the latest information before your visit.

The Marienkapelle chapel on Almosenberg is also open year-round and free to access, and can be visited at any time. It offers a different focus from the activity area: here, the emphasis is on visiting a specific named place. You can therefore plan both destinations as different stops during your stay. The same applies to the chapel: operational details may change, so it is advisable to check the latest information before your visit.

Discovery Tour: route and starting points

The Rülzheim Municipal Association Discovery Tour is suitable for all ages. It starts at the petting zoo in Rülzheim and follows the signposted Klingbach Cycle Path through the town toward Hördt. The route runs mostly along well-maintained cycle paths. The route description and path conditions give you specific points to consider when planning your tour, without specifying a particular walking or cycling time.

If you are travelling by public transport, you can start the tour from Freizeitzentrum/Straußenfarm or Rülzheim railway station. Check the latest connections and stop regulations before travelling, as these may change. Nearby, visitors to the Rülzheim petting zoo can watch sheep being shorn and learn more about the animals’ lives in the barn and surrounding area. Animal watching and the cycle route thus offer two distinct themes to consider when planning your stay.

Options in the wider Germersheim destination

The wider Germersheim destination also offers a variety of themes for day trips. The Queich Mills Circular Hiking Trail around Bellheim connects four of the six mills still standing and brings the historic milling trade to life. In Germersheim, the fortress is considered the largest Bavarian fortress outside Bavaria; numerous significant surviving buildings encircle the entire town centre. The Queich meadows form an approximately 350-hectare meadow irrigation system that is still in active use. It extends from Landau, Offenbach, Hochstadt, Ottersheim, Knittelsheim, Bellheim and Zeiskam to Germersheim.

For cyclists, the 44.4-kilometre Bienwald-Rhine Floodplains Tour offers a different perspective on the landscape: it passes through the Bienwald forest and the Rhine floodplains near Hagenbach and Neuburg am Rhein, in the southern Palatinate near the French border. By contrast, the Winden Stork Trail is a four-kilometre circular route with 15 information boards about white storks, local history, and flora and fauna. From February to August, you can observe storks in their nests, foraging for food and in flight; sightings are not guaranteed. Along the route, there are rest and play areas, a barefoot path, a Kneipp wading pool, a viewing platform, a monitor showing camera images of some nests, and a fruit-picking garden. These facilities may be affected by maintenance or seasonal conditions.

Another cycling option in the wider Germersheim destination is the Germersheim Water Diversity Tour. It leads to the Palatinate Rhine floodplains in the Insel Grün nature reserve and runs mostly on paved cycle paths around Germersheim. Along the way are numerous bodies of water, the Rhine riverbank, the mouth of the Queich and the old Rhine channels of the Palatinate. The tour is suitable for family outings and can be shortened. The regional routes therefore vary in length, route format and the landscape or information themes described.

Discover more destinations: Jockgrim, Minfeld, Zeiskam, Neuburg Am Rhein, Vollmersweiler, Neupotz, Hatzenbühl, Schwegenheim.

Go to the overview of the wider destination: Germersheim.