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Renchtal is a medium sized service station North-West of the small town of [[Appenweier]] at the [[A9A5]] between [[Offenburg]] and [[Baden-Baden]]. It is easy here to catch lifts north ([[Frankfurt]]) and south ([[Basel]]) and it serves an excellent starting point from [[Strassbourg]] and [[Offenburg]].

If heading into Germany from [[Strassbourg]] you may be quicker if you take the cheap train to [[Appenweier]] and walk ~25min to the service station. From the station head west on "Urloffer Weg" and turn right on "Hauptrasse". Turn left right after you crossed the small creek/canal, follow the canal and turn right (after ~500m) on the road that leads to some farm building. Follow this trail all the way to the spot where a bridge crosses the highway. The service station is 100 North ~100m north of this point.

You may be much quicker on the highway motorway from [[Offenburg]] if you travel by bus/train to this service station than if you start thumbing around in [[Offenburg]]. Either take the train to [[Appenweier]] and follow the trail described above. Or take a bus from [[Offenburg]] to "Urloffen Rose" (bus 7136 direction [[Bühl]] or Heimschule Lender, or bus 7136 direction [[Kehl]]). From the stop head south-west until the Ford car seller and turn right (direction Legelshurst) and walk out of the village until you cross the highway motorway right where the service station is situated (10 min walk from the busstop).