What kind of landscape can it be in which places have such picturesque names as Waldfenster or Schmalwasser, Steinberg or Gefäll? Promising gloom like Sterbfritz and Kreuzberg? At the top of the Hochrhönstraße, when the last rays of sun separate the clouds from the land, the view stretches far and wide. It registers the contours of barren expanses, senses flattened giant humps, separated by sheltering wooded valleys. Wind-bushes bend their branches on bristly, tousled sheep pastures, 800 metres above the very distant sea.
Almost 500 metres in altitude lie between Bischofsheim and Kreuzberg, which is only six kilometres away. Sometimes you have to go that high to see anything at all. When the fog leaves fine droplets on the skins of the Rhön sheep all day long, every colour in the valley is grey. And at the top, the sun shines on colourful foliage and yellow grass.
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TOUR 1: Aiming high
Bischofsheim - Frankenheim - Wildflecken - Guckas Pass - Burkardroth - Frauenroth - Aschach - Bad Neustadt - Wollbach Ostheim - Fladungen - Hochrhönring - Bischofsheim
TOUR 2: Short and steep
Bischofsheim - Frankenheim - Gersfeld - Poppenhausen - Elters - Schwarzbach - Esbachgraben - Aura - Hilders - Ehrenberg - Bischofsheim
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