Main Winery tour

The continuously signposted cycle path mostly runs along the riverside and doesn’t have any bigger gradients. It is almost completely asphalted and nearly car-free.

Individual arrival.

A beautiful bike path leads you through small wine villages in the heart of the Franconian wine country through the Volkacher Main loop, the largest contiguous vineyard region of Franconia. Enjoy the picturesque village Sommerach with its baroque houses and half-timbered wineries. You will visit the winery cellar, the oldest wine association. Come to the "Kostbar" with sales and serving of wine, the "Sommerbar" for relaxation and the Wine School. In the afternoon we recommend a guided wine tour. Look forward to an entertaining tour through nature, wine school and wine cellar. You will learn about the Sommeracher vineyards, about hundred years of history of the wine cellar and the craftsmanship of the wine grower (every Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 3 p.m.).

After a few kilometers the old town of Dettelbach invites you to enjoy a worthwhile break. You will be fascinated by the almost completely preserved city walls, small towers and picturesque rows of half-timbered houses. Via Kitzingen, the largest wine trading city on the Main with its historic market square, and Marktbreit you will cycle to Ochsenfurt. Look forward to visiting the old town surrounded by a well-preserved defensive wall, where you can easily reach the city hall and the castle via the typical step gables. You will stay at the winery, look over the wine grower‘s shoulder and taste the fine wines.

Via Eibelstadt and the picturesque wine village Randersacker you will cycle to Würzburg. In this beautiful city, the market square, the town hall, the imposing fortress and the Lady Chapel with its sandstone figures are worth seeing. The highlight is the former bishop’s residence, which was built 1720 - 1744 according to plans by Balthasar Neumann. You will pass Veitshoechheim with its prince-bishop summer residence and French Rococo garden and then arrive in Thüngersheim. Some popular types of wine like  Müller-Thurgau, Silvaner, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and Rieslaner are grown here. You can visit the modern wine shop and convince yourself of the skills of the wine growers in Thüngersheim. Your destination for today is Karlstadt, whose old-town is surrounded by ancient walls, towers and gates.

Now the landscape is changing: the characteristic viticulture disappears and shady forests mark the bike path. In only 10 minutes (Karstadt - Gemünden) or 25 minutes (Karlstadt-Lohr) by Maintalbahn, you can shorten the stage of today individually. After Lohr the bike path runs directly along the banks through the beautiful town of Marktheidenfeld. Enjoy the romantic wine village Homburg and the vineyards, which now again enrich the landscape. 

You cycle along the riverside and enjoy pure nature while passing Wertheim with its lovely half-timbered houses and narrow old town and rediscovering vineyards near Bürgstadt. Bürgstadt is known for its excellent wine, perhaps because here the wine is still operated with the love of private wine growers. It is a pretty and jolly wine village and offers small delicacies in the „Häckerwirtschaften“. Look forward to the Red Wine Hiking Trail and the Martin Chapel with its unique interior decoration.

Not very far from Bürgstadt you will arrive in Miltenberg, where you can admire the magnificent market square - better known as "Schnatterloch". Afterwards you cycle to Großheubach, where wine have been grown since since 1254. Even today, as for centuries the vines grow mainly on the steep stone terraces, as they are only found on the lower Main. These dry stone walls serve as a natural heat storage and create an extremely convenient microclimate. The weathered red sandstone soil is the basis for the noble red grape varieties Pinot Noir, Pinot Madeleine, Portuguese or St. Laurent. On flat roads you cycle on to the sandstone Castle Johannesburg in Aschaffenburg.