It's exciting, the hike from Wolfratshausen via Puppling and the Pupplinger Au to the Ickinger Wehr and back.
Here you can discover the beauties of the home region.
Bergverlag Rother has published an "anniversary hiking guide for Germany with 100 tour highlights"
Tour 85 describes a nice tour in the northern part of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district
It's 13 kilometers from Wolfratshausen to Icking and back
Wolfratshausen - With the hard lockdown, travel, skiing and gatherings of any kind are no longer possible.
So what to do when you want some fresh air?
Quite simply: there are a hundred ways to hike closer to home with a good map in hand.
And it's really nice!
It was a good idea that Bergverlag Rother, founded in 1920, has just published an “Anniversary Hiking Guide Germany with 100 Tour Highlights” from all over Germany.
And a tour starting in Wolfratshausen has also made it into this selection guide, on which the beauties of the home region can be discovered and which is actually possible all year round.
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Over the Ickinger weir you change from the east bank to the west bank of the Isar.
© Joachim Burghardt / Rother-Verlag / rbe
Tour 85 describes a really exciting tour from the Flößerstadt via Puppling and the Pupplinger Au to the Ickinger Wehr.
Return to Wolfratshausen on the western high bank of the Isar via the viewpoints “White Wall” and Riemerschmid Park.
The starting point is at Wolfratshausen train station.
The tour is 13 kilometers long, so you should plan around four hours of walking.
First of all, it must be said: This is anything but a leisurely stroll on the marked premium hiking trails.
There are only trails over a thousand roots, on which it always goes along the Isar through the wilderness of the Pupplinger Au to the Ickinger weir.
In some places you have to leave the climbing track along the river, where the "ripping woman" gnawed on the banks during the last floods.
About the Riemerschmid monument
At a vantage point above the Isar valley there is a memorial stone that commemorates Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957) and his two sons who died in the war.
Riemerschmid, who is based in Munich, was a prominent German architect, designer and university professor.
He is considered one of the most prominent and influential artistic personalities of Art Nouveau and was a pioneer of the modern art and craft movement.
Richard Riemerschmid has created numerous representative buildings all over Germany.
He has also designed interior furnishings and fittings, for example for the Münchner Kammerspiele.
He has also created wallpapers, fabrics and glass objects and patterns for Meissen porcelain.
From 1912 to 1924 he headed the arts and crafts school in Munich and from 1926 to 1931 the Cologne factory schools.
His grave is in the Gräfelfing cemetery
Riemerschmid was also very close to the Isar Valley Association.
In 1941 he had a memorial stone erected for his two sons Helmut and Gerhart Riemerschmid.
The monolith, which weighs several tons, tells of a family tragedy: the older son Helmut, born in 1896, died as a soldier on July 15, 1918 in France towards the end of the First World War.
His significantly younger brother Gerhart, born in 1911, was killed on September 9, 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War during an attack on Poland.
You will always meet a few people at the Ickinger Wehr, but immediately afterwards it goes back into the wilderness and the route is not always clear here either.
A sense of direction is therefore also required on the way back - and surprisingly even alpine surefootedness when it comes to a very narrow, very steep ridge through dense forest up to the “White Wall”.
This is without a doubt the key point of this tour.
Arrived up at the vertical edge of the break, one has an ingenious view of the confluence of the Isar and Loisach rivers, with the Alpine chain behind on the horizon.
A calendar motif!
You continue through the forest over to the train tracks, where you finally reach a designated hiking trail again.
You pass the deep gash in the railway line when it cuts from the Ickingen high plateau down into the Isar valley up on the edge of the embankment and then descend to the Riemerschmid Park, another very beautiful vantage point.
From there it's easy and comfortable, always slightly downhill, back to Wolfratshausen.
You pass the Floßlände and change the Loisachufer three times: on the Weidachbrücke, over the weir and the pedestrian bridge between Rathauspassage and Loisachhalle, until you get to the train station.
Tour profile
From Wolfratshausen train station via Nantwein along the state road (bike path) to over the Isar bridge at Puppling, then northwards via paths along the Isar (some of these are trampled paths, newer bank breaks have to be avoided to the east) to Ickinger Wehr (from here a short detour to the north may be possible the gravel banks and the ice pond).
Beyond the Isar 400 meters to the south, then a climbing lane to the right to a waterworks hidden in the forest and shortly afterwards along a path to the south to the exit of a valley, then straight up over the narrow ridge to the left (sure-footedness required) to the “Weisse Wall".
Further south, descending around a fence to the right and up to the railway embankment (in case of icing, the narrow ridge in front of the White Wall can be bypassed by climbing through the valley to the west of it).
Now left, always on the west side of the track system, on a path to the Riemerschmid Park.
It continues below the railway system to Wolfratshausen.
After passing the Floßlände you cross the Loisach three times: on the Weidacher Bridge, at the weir and between the Rathauspassage and Loisachhalle.
13.6 kilometers, 150 meters in altitude;
Pure walking time 3 ½ to 4 hours.
(You can of course also start the tour at the Puppling parking lot).
In addition to sufficient time for this hike, you should definitely have surefootedness, a sense of direction and the necessary respect for nature that is still largely intact - and you should heed the Indian principle of “leaving no traces”.
We owe that to nature.
Rainer Bannier
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