Recommended Leisure activities around Gut Hermannsberg
Not only in terms of wine quality the Nahe region is considered an insider tip, but also for adventures in nature, hikes trough the vinyards and cultural experiences the nahe-valley is just perfect.
Our region offers just the right leisure program for every visitor: from the museum for puppet theater culture, to beautiful hiking routes through vineyards and past rugged rocky landscapes, to unique outdoor activities such as Segway tours through the wine landscape or take a walk with reindeers at the reindeer-farm.
Let yourself be inspired!
//Hiking & Cycling
/HIKING
Discover the most beautiful hiking routes in the nahe-valley and around Bad Kreuznach. Wide hilly, forest, vineyard and meadow landscapes are waiting to be discovered by you. Since time immemorial, the Nahe has been considered the natural region par excellence. Guests from all over the world appreciate the region south of the Hunsrück as a good address for unique nature experiences with an impressive variety. Enjoy unique natural beauties in summer and winter. Our well-developed network of hiking trails is suitable for one-day and multi-day hikes, wine hikes or individual tours.
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Vitality Tour Mysterious Lemberg - Vitaltour Geheimnisvoller Lemberg
The approximately 13.5 km Vitaltour "Mysterious Lemberg" offers you everything you can expect from a premium hiking trail: cultural-historical sights, relics of mining from times long past, wild valleys with rushing streams, "enchanted" and alpine paths, the unique visitor mine "Schmittenstollen“, the „Silver Lake“, vineyards and fantastic views with unique nature experiences.
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Wine Trail Niederhausen
You can start this small 4,5 km hike directly from Gut Hermannsberg. On the way you will have a wonderful view over the wine village Niederhausen, the artificial lake and the beautiful surroundings. On the circular route you will find 50 explanatory panels which explains the work of the winegrowers in the vineyards and the different grape varieties. Of course, there are also some resting benches from which you can enjoy the beautiful view over the valley.
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Barefoot path, Bad Sobernheim
You will be gobsmacked. Clay, water, air and above all a lot of fun awaits you. Like a foot reflexology massage, walking over clay grass, sand, stones and bark mulch stimulates the entire organism. The clay pool, the ford through the Nahe River and the suspension bridge are the highlights, not only for children!
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/CYCLING
The region around Bad Kreuznach is an Eldorado for cyclists who appreciate varied natural landscapes. The king stage is the Nahe-cycle path from Bingen to the source of the Nahe. There are also many smaller circular tours starting and ending in and around Bad Kreuznach.
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Nahe Cycling Path - Nahe-Radweg
The 130-kilometer Nahe Cycle Path offers plenty of variety. Starting in the headwaters of the nahe-river at Bostalsee to the end of this tour, where it flows into the Rhine near Bingen. With steep climbs in the upper Nahe-Valley, to leisurely cycling through the vineyards there is something for everyone on the route.
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Glan-Blies Cycle Route Stage 5 - Glan-Blies-Radweg Etappe 5
The last stage on the Glan-Blies Cycle Route takes you into the wine landscape, of the Nahe-Valley. Again you will experience a new landscape, with its very own charm and many offers. A bicycle tour, in the footsteps of Hildegard von Bingen, further on the Naheradweg to Bad Sobernheim. As soon as the cycle path leaves Meisenheim and the beautiful historic old town, the vineyards become more present.
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//MUSEUM
Stone Sculpture Museum
The sculptors Anna and Wolfgang Kubach-Wilmsen were able to win the world-renowned architect Tadao Ando from Osaka, Japan for their stone sculpture museum. Opened in 2010, the building is the only contemporary stone sculpture museum in the world. It has found its place in the wine landscape of the Nahe valley with a view of the Rotenfelsen, the castle Ebernburg, Norheim and the extraordinary rock formation Rheingrafenstein.
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Museum for Puppet Theater Culture PUK, Bad Kreuznach
The imaginative structure offers a museum-like journey of discovery through the world of puppet theater for all generations. There are the famous marionettes from the Augsburg Puppet Box, valuable theatralia on all 8 puppetry traditions recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, and interactive tasting stations.
How much does a puppet knight from Sicily weigh? What does it look like behind a puppet stage? How are the wooden heads for the theater made? These and other questions can be answered by a visit to the museum PuK - Curtain up in Bad Kreuznach's KulturViertel!
The permanent exhibition and the special exhibitions in the PuK Museum are an imaginative experience every day except Mondays
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Open Air Museum Bad Sobernheim
The Rhineland-Palatinate Open Air Museum invites you to take a walk through the last 500 years. More than 40 buildings were dismantled in all regions of the state, transported to the museum grounds and reassembled here piece by piece. Inside, authentically and richly detailed furnished living and working spaces of different time periods, workshops and workplaces as well as historic stores can be found. Between the four museum building groups cattles, sheeps and goats graze on the pastures. In the fields, gardens, vineyards and numerous orchards, old useful and ornamental plants grow, the likes of which are rarely found today. Hands-on stations throughout the grounds invite visitors to try things out and interactive modern exhibition areas invite them to discover.
Theme and action days offer additional programs for the whole family throughout the season. The open-air museum also has a variety of offers for groups.
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//OUTDOORACTIVITIES
Minigolf in the Oranienpark, Bad Kreuznach
In the middle of Bad Kreuznach there is a well-maintained club facility of the Bad Kreuznach Minigolf Club (concrete course) in Oranienpark in beautiful surroundings.
Prices: Adults € 3.00, children/young people up to 16 years € 2.00 and and holders of guest cards € 2.50..
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Boat rental on the Mühlenkanal and the Rheingrafenstein
Boat rental on the Mühlenkanal and the Rheingrafenstein
With a boat tour on the "Mühlenkanal" you will experience Bad Kreuznach from its most charming side.You can row right through the city or paddle on the Mühlenkanal past the Kurpark, pass the weir at the Elisabethquelle and reach the Rose Island on the main branch of the Nahe. A very special mood and atmosphere captures the excursionists.
The boat rental at the Nahe ferry at the spa park Bad Münster am Stein offers pedal and rowing boats. Experience the rustic rocky landscape at the Rheingrafenstein on the Nahe. The rugged shore areas are under nature protection. If you move quietly here, you will have plenty of opportunity to observe birds. An intensive nature experience.
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"Standing-Ovation" Rhine-Nahe Segway Tours, Bad Kreuznach/Bingen am Rhein
Ride with us through the most beautiful landscapes of the Rhine-Nahe region. Enjoy the extraordinary sights along the Rhine, Nahe and the surrounding areas. On guided Segway tours you will enjoy a modern, emission-free and carefree means of transportation. Relax with interesting tours, different lengths and routes.
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Reindeer farm, Niederhausen/Nahe
Meet Santa's wonderful helpers and enjoy a unique reindeer hike through forests and vineyards in a beautiful landscape. The reindeer hike lasts about 2 - 2 ½ hours, during which you will hike together with the Renies through the varied Nahe valley and enjoy the wonderful nature. After the hike, a picnic awaits the participants in convivial company at the reindeer pasture, where they receive their reindeer license.
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Rail bike tour
A rail bike tour is simply fun - you pedal comfortably like on a bicycle and enjoy the landscape and the nice company. There are opportunities for breaks in the restaurants in the villages or at the numerous picnic areas - so leave yourself enough time for your tour. If you decide to take half the route - 20km - you will have plenty of opportunities to explore the area. The oil mill in St. Julian (please book in advance), the small towns of Lauterecken and Meisenheim am Glan or the monastery ruin
of Disibodenberg are worth the short detour from the track. From Staudernheim, it's not far to the barefoot path on the Nahe River, which offers a refreshing end to a great vacation day.
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//GOLF
We are very pleased to be able to offer you a price advantage at our 3 partner golf clubs when booking tee times directly through us. Please ask us.
Also look for our Golf & Wine Special, with which you can combine culinary and golf and enjoy a relaxing time out.
Golfclub Nahetal
The club has an outstanding restaurant serving regional and international specialties and an 18-hole course that requires a precise, tactically clever game due to its hilly terrain and partly very narrow fairways bordered by old trees. A highlight is the magnificent view from the dogleg of the 7th hole to the Rotenfels.
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Golfclub Rheinhessen
There are only a few golf courses in Germany that offer a similarly charming ambience as the golf course of the Golfclub Rheinhessen - Hofgut Wißberg. On a high plateau surrounded by vineyards, the course presents itself with a fantastic panoramic view over the Rheinhessen Tuscany. The challenging course of the Golfclub Rheinhessen with a variety of bunkers and large fast greens offers you all the possibilities to enjoy the sport of golf.
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Golfclub Stromberg
From some of the tees you can enjoy magnificent views of the Rhine-Hessian hills, over the Nahe valley to the Donnersberg. Driving range and putting green offer good conditions to warm up. After an energy-sapping round, you can relax on the terrace of the Land & Golf Hotel and review the round with a good glass of wine. Stromberg is a worthwhile destination.
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//CULTURAL EXCURSIONS /RELAXATION & WELLNESS
Schmittenstollen visitor mine
The Lemberg, with about 420 m the highest mountain in the Nahe valley, accommodates beside many mining peculiarities a cultural-historical treasure:
A medieval cinnabar mine, the Schmittenstollen, the only mercury mine in Western Europe that has been developed as a visitor mine. The experience underground with competent guides gives the visitor an idea of the conditions under which generations of miners extracted the ore from the Lemberg over centuries. A visit to the Schmittenstollen can be easily combined with the hike "Vitaltour Geheimnisvoller Lemberg".
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Ebernburg Artists' Station
The Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg is an institution in a former station building on the Bad Kreuznach - Kaiserslautern railroad line. The building is located between the districts of Bad Münster am Stein and Ebernburg. Since 1979, the Förderverein Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg e.V. has offered studio space and a fully furnished apartment for scholarship holders here. In addition to the work residencies, the sponsoring association intends to organize exhibitions in the studio rooms.
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Experience Kirn with headphones
Shhhh, listen very carefully: Then you will learn many great, interesting and worth knowing stories about the town of Kirn. The new Kirn Listening Tour takes you on an exciting journey through the little town on the Nahe. It's the people of Kirn themselves who make the sights of their town come alive - from the former "Little Venice" to mysterious traces of the Schinderhannes: The Kirn Eavesdropping Tour explains the most exciting places in town and all that in a purely audio-guided tour of the town.
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/RELAXATION & WELLNESS
Bäderhaus Bad Kreuznach
The historic BÄDERHAUS Bad Kreuznach lets you come to yourself. So that you can really enjoy your time and simply go "offline". Look forward to finally only having to take care of yourself. Because the sauna and wellness facilities leave nothing to be desired. Through our cooperation with the Bäderhaus we offer you special conditions for your day ticket.
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Crucenia Thermal Baths
In two indoor and one outdoor pool, guests swim in mineral-rich thermal water at about 33 degrees Celsius. In the large freshwater pool, rather brisk swimming pleasure at 30 degrees Celsius is the order of the day.
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Open air inhalatorium Salinental
Breathe in the refreshing salty air just like at the seaside. Enjoy the beneficial effect on the respiratory tract, bronchial tubes and skin. Experience a unique cultural landscape. Peace and relaxation. All this is the Salinental.
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