Dachau and the surrounding area are becoming increasingly popular with cyclists. You reach the town through charming marshland landscapes and along the wild and romantic course of the Amper river. Here it is worth making the short ascent to the picturesque old town and to Dachau's Wittelbach Castle with its magnificent views. Both the Ammer-Amper cycle path as well as the WaterBikeTrails Upper Bavaria with its Hop & Beer and Art & Culture loops run through the city. Ambitious cyclists will find routes with little traffic in the hilly hinterland, ranging from easy to challenging.
Tour suggestions and numerous tips on places of interest and places to stop for refreshments are available from the Dachau Tourist Information Office.
The cycling club „Soli“ Dachau e.V. has developed a tour through the Dachau hills:
Judith & Clemens from the blog www.berghuhn.de experience micro adventures in the Munich area and come to the Ammer-Amper cycle path through Dachau.
If you reach the town of Dachau via the beautiful alluvial forests of the Amper, you should make a detour to the picturesque old town. The Amper flows directly at the foot of Dachau's old town hill and after a short walk you reach the old town with its magnificent town houses.
Dachau Castle is enthroned high above. From here, you can enjoy a unique view over the state capital all the way to the Alps.
Art lovers should definitely not miss a visit to the Picture gallery miss. The permanent exhibition features paintings and sculptures by the former Artists' colony Dachau shown. The town is still home to many artists and there are regular exhibitions in the town's various galleries. It is also worth visiting the District museum. The history of the town, bourgeois crafts and guilds as well as everyday rural culture are on display here.
If you leave the city again downstream, a visit to the Concentration camp memorial to.
The Ammer-Amper-Radweg cycle tour book was produced in collaboration with the bikeline publishing house.
Available in Dachau at the municipal tourist information office at a price of €9.90 or can be ordered online.
Local recreation at the gates of Munich:
The WaterBikeTrails Upper Bavaria with its Hop & Beer and Art & Culture Loops run directly through the city. After all, the art of brewing and painting were once closely linked here. Even though none of Dachau's former seven brewhouses still exist, the buildings of the Unterbräu, Hörhammerbräu and Zieglerbräu still characterize the appearance of the former market today. The owners of the breweries were often established personalities with great influence on the fortunes of their town. In Dachau in particular, during the heyday of the old town breweries, they also shaped cultural life through their close connection to the prominent representatives of the former artists' colony at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sample some of the regional beer specialties in the old town alleyways or visit the painting gallery of the former Dachau artists' colony. You will also come across painters and their works of art from this period time and again at the painting steles on the artists' trail. Along the cycle paths and in the town, beer gardens and the many restaurants and cafés invite you to take a break. If you have brought your own picnic, you will find snack tables and benches at the Amper playground in the middle of the greenery between the river and the Schlossberg.
Helpful links to the hop loop of the WasserRadlWege Oberbayern:
Helpful links to the art loop of the WasserRadlWege Oberbayern:
Just a few steps - the short climb from the old town to the former Wittelsbach summer residence of Dachau Palace rewards you with an unexpectedly expansive view over Dachau to Munich and, on a foehn day, the Alpine panorama. The courtyard garden with its baroque lime arbor is an oasis of peace in the middle of the city.
From Dachau station, this tour offers a low-traffic connection to Munich. Starting on the west side of Dachau railroad station (bus station), the route follows the railroad line towards Munich out of Dachau and crosses it at Karlsfeld S-Bahn station.
First follow Bahnhofstraße, then turn left into Münchner Straße and just before the underpass turn right into Josef-Scheidl-Straße, which you now follow along the railroad tracks. Continue along Johann-Sperl-Weg and Lovis-Corinth-Straße along Alte Bayernwerkstraße/Bayernwerkstraße. From the other side of Karlsfeld S-Bahn station, the route leads through the Allacher Lohe, a so-called „Lohwald“, a mixture of sparse forest and the heathland typical of the north of Munich, which forms the transition from the fens of the Dachauer Moos to the Munich gravel plain.
The tour crosses a bridge over the Munich marshalling yard and after a short time leads along the railroad tracks and Max-Born-Straße to the right and along well-maintained cycle paths through the Olympiapark Nord past the Olympic Stadium into Alt-Schwabing and along Clemensstraße to Münchner Freiheit. From here it is only a few minutes by bike to the city center or to the English Garden and Kleinhesseloher See.
A selection of hosts close to the cycle routes through Dachau.
We have put together a selection of restaurants, cafés and ice cream parlors in the immediate vicinity of the cycle paths through Dachau:
Further information on cycling in Dachau and the surrounding area can be found on the following websites:
A selection of hosts close to the cycle routes through Dachau.
