Der Hohenzollernweg - Von Esslingen am Neckar zum Bodensee - Tag 02

The Hohenzollernweg or Hohenzollernradweg leads from Esslingen am Neckar over the Schönbuch and the Swabian Alb to Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance. The second day of my bike tour starts in Hechingen am Brielhof below Zollernburg, where I spent the night. In the morning, the first part of the bike tour leads first to Balingen, where I ride along in stages on the Eyachtalradweg. The weather is not as nice this morning as it was the day before and shortly before Schömberg on the Swabian Alb it starts to storm and lends raindrops to fall. Of course, I do not let it slow me down and the Albtrauf to Gosheim must be defeated despite worse weather. With some 20% gradient it goes up to the high altitude of the Swabian Alb up to 965 meters above sea level, then back down into the Danube valley to Tuttlingen. Here I follow the Danube Cycle Path a few hundred meters, before there is a short lunch break. About the Witthoh, which also represents the European watershed between the Rhine and Danube then lead the last few kilometers down to Lake Constance. Arrived in Ludwigshafen, I have an hour stay before it goes by train back to the Black Forest.