Rennertshofen: Market History and the Wellheimer Dry Valley

Rennertshofen offers several different perspectives for planning a trip: historic buildings along Marktstraße, the signposted Historic Walking Tour and the Wellheimer Dry Valley. Other points of interest lie within the municipality, including the information panels in the village of Mauern and the Bertoldsheim Danube barrage. If you are looking for hotels for your stay, this overview can help you decide in advance which focus you prefer – local history, cycling routes, nature or regional culture.

Historic Buildings and Walking Tour

The burgher houses along Marktstraße in Rennertshofen date from the 16th to the 18th century, the schoolhouse from the 17th century and the vicarage from 1680. This brings together several different periods: the burgher houses span the broadest period, while the schoolhouse and vicarage date from the 17th century, with the year 1680 specified for the vicarage.

Since April 2010, a signposted Historic Walking Tour has led through the market town of Rennertshofen. Local history can therefore be explored both through individual building dates and along a marked route through the town.

Valley and Cycling Route

The Wellheimer Dry Valley winds in broad loops from Rennertshofen via Hütting to Dollnstein. It offers a different scale from the Historic Walking Tour: the tour leads through the market town, while the valley extends across several places.

Mauern and Bertoldsheim in the Municipality

In the Rennertshofen village of Mauern, panels at the “Mauerner Höhlen” information centre provide information about the Mauerner Caves, the Urdonautal, the village of Mauern, the adjacent nature reserve and the natural monument “Steinerner Mann”. The Altmühl Cycle Path, which runs directly past the information centre, is also relevant for planning a cycling trip.

After the plague years of 1632 and 1649, the citizens of Burgheim vowed to make an annual pilgrimage to Mauern. This pilgrimage continues to take place today.

The Bertoldsheim Danube barrage is located within the municipality, but not in the town of Rennertshofen itself, and has long been used for sailing. The Bertoldsheim reservoir is of European importance as a wintering site for waterbirds. These two aspects also differ in timing: sailing is a longstanding use, while the reservoir’s importance for birds relates to winter.

Neuburg-Schrobenhausen as the Regional Setting

The wider destination of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen also includes distinct cultural attractions at the district level. Neuburg Residence Palace is an important early Renaissance complex, built by Count Palatine Ottheinrich between 1530 and 1545. The palace chapel is one of the oldest Protestant church buildings in the world and contains frescoes by Hans Bocksberger dating from 1543.

In the district, the wet meadows of the meadow-bird areas in the Donaumoos and the Paartal are important habitats for the Eurasian curlew, northern lapwing, meadow pipit, corn bunting, whinchat, corncrake and common snipe. The landscape ranges from bizarre rock formations in the north, to the riparian forest along the Danube and the Donaumoos with its deep-black soil, and on to the characteristic asparagus fields of the Schrobenhausen region in the south.

The Danube Cycle Path is also part of the regional setting: 63 kilometres run through Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district from Donauwörth to Ingolstadt. As temporary diversions may occur, check the current route before setting off.

Discover more destinations: Ehekirchen, Schrobenhausen, Karlskron, Neuburg An Der Donau, Weichering.

Go to the wider travel overview: Neuburg-Schrobenhausen.