Discover Rimpar: Castle history and trails

Rimpar brings together places of cultural and historical interest with several hiking and cycling routes. Grumbach Castle, the Church of St. Peter and Paul, and the trails around the town each offer a different perspective. When planning your trip, you can consider architectural and art history as well as the landscape and routes: Rimpar’s themes range from a historic castle to a southern loop of about nine kilometres.

Grumbach Castle and art in Rimpar

Grumbach Castle was first mentioned in official records in 1469. On 25 June 2000, the castle museum was inaugurated there, with the Archaeological Museum and Bakery Museum departments. The department names indicate two different subject areas: archaeology and baking. The history of the castle and the later opening of the museum thus provide distinct points of reference in time.

Another art-historical landmark is the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Rimpar, which houses Tilman Riemenschneider’s first stone sculpture. The castle and the church therefore offer different ways to explore Rimpar’s cultural history.

Trails through landscape and culture

The “Gramschatzer Wald 1: Rimpar and Maidbronn” European Cultural Route starts at the market square in Rimpar. Its southern loop leads to Maidbronn and is about 9 km long. This approximate distance is a useful guide when fitting the tour into your day’s plans. The route connects the starting point in the town centre with a trail to Maidbronn.

The Kobelweg Rimpar invites you to enjoy its varied landscape of fruit trees, grapevines, hedgerows, and meadows. The “Kobel” was inaugurated on Kobersberg in 2016 and is connected to a wine trail. This adds landscape and wine hiking as distinct themes alongside the cultural route.

The Zwei-Bäche-Tour also passes through Rimpar. It follows a combined hiking and cycling trail from Estenfeld to Kürnach. This offers a different kind of trip planning from the southern loop of the cultural route: here, the trail is described as shared by hikers and cyclists, while the southern loop is given an approximate length and Maidbronn as its destination.

Culture in the wider Würzburg destination

Cultural sites in other municipalities across the wider Würzburg destination add to the picture of the region. In Ochsenfurt, the historic old town is encircled by an almost complete fortification system with numerous town gates and towers. The New Town Hall dates from the 15th century; its Lanzentürmchen tower contains a unique clock featuring figures and lunar phases. These two examples bring together the town’s fortifications and a distinctive feature of the town hall, both in Ochsenfurt.

In Röttingen, historical points of interest range from Brattenstein Castle to a themed trail. The castle’s oldest buildings date from the 12th and 13th centuries; it was home to various noble families, including the Lords of Hohenlohe. Since 21 July 1984, its courtyard has been the venue for the Röttinger FRANKENFESTSPIELE. The Sundial Trail is about 2 kilometres long and passes 25 different sundials inside and around the town walls.

The Paracelsus Garden is also in Röttingen: it features around 70 different culinary and medicinal herbs, some cultivated and some growing wild. The garden is a stop on the Kneipp Vitality Trail, which is designed around Kneipp’s five pillars of health. The routes differ in scale: the southern loop of Rimpar’s cultural route is about 9 km long, while the Sundial Trail in Röttingen is around 2 km.

Discover more destinations: Rottendorf, Hausen bei Würzburg, Randersacker, Gaukönigshofen, Tauberrettersheim, Margetshöchheim, Zell am Main, Thüngersheim.

See the overview of the wider destination: Würzburg.