Holiday inspiration "On the road with a handbike"

Description

The holiday region around Kelheim can be explored very well by handcycle: In the Altmühltal, for example, you can cycle along the Main-Danube Canal without any major climbs, the hilly Hallertau offers something for more athletic demands, and on the Five-Rivers Cycle Path you are traveling several days between the cities of Nuremberg, Amberg, Regensburg, Kelheim, and Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate. 

The Weltenburg cycle path wonderfully combines sightseeing and handcycling on 36 km. As a circular tour, the cycle path leads from Kelheim to Abensberg and back again. Highlights along the route are the boat trip through the famous Danube Gorge with its 70-meter-high cliffs that rise steeply up from the Danube river, Weltenburg Abbey, the historic old town of Abensberg with its city museum. It is important to know that the Weltenburg cycle path is only suitable for handcycling in combination with the boat trip from Kelheim to Weltenburg from mid-March to the beginning of November. Therefore, please note the current time tables of the riverboats. In order to protect nature, the riverboats are not allowed to navigate the Danube during low and high water. You can find up-to-date information at www.schifffahrt-kelheim.de

This holiday inspiration includes the following offers: 

• Boat trip through the Danube Gorge
• Handcycle variant of the Weltenburg cycle path
• Weltenburg Monastery Tavern 
• City Museum Abensberg in the historic Herzogskasten
• St. Georg Guesthouse at Weltenburg Abbey

Arrival and mobility:

In general, we recommend that you travel by car. If you travel by train, you will need to change to local public transport from Saal an der Donau station to Kelheim. Alternatively, the taxi company MH Taxi Kelheim offers wheelchair transport.

Disabled parking: 

• In Kelheim there are six disabled parking spaces directly in front of the riverboat ticket office on the P4 Donauvorland car park. Alternatively, you can park in the nearby Pflegerspitz P3large car park.
• The car park in Weltenburg is about 650 meters from the abbey. A paved, traffic-calmed road leads to the abbey. Parking spaces are available directly at the abbey for overnight guests of the St. Georg Guesthouse.
• In Abensberg there are two disabled parking spaces at Aventinusplatz in the historic old town. Otherwise, you can park in the large Gillamooswiese car park. However, the way from the large car park to the old town is uphill.