© Alexander Jäkel, Gunter Fichte

1. Route: Exploring the former narrow-gauge network by bike

At a glance

  • Start: Roßmäßler Building Tharandt, TU Dresden campus, Department of Forest Sciences
  • Destination: Roßmäßler Building Tharandt, TU Dresden campus, Department of Forest Sciences
  • Medium
  • 43,33 km
  • 3 hours 14 minutes
  • 349 m
  • 406 m
  • 160 m

A scenic cycling route along the former Wilsdruff narrow-gauge railway network with numerous natural and historical highlights.

The cycling route follows the former Wilsdruff narrow-gauge network in the Tharandt Forest combined with the cycle path network "Around Wilsdruff" and the "Cycle Path on the Silver Road" (D4) in the SachsenNetz Rad. Along the way, you encounter not only historical evidences of the railway, including the narrow-gauge railway museum in Wilsdruff, but also natural and cultural monuments of the region between Freital, Tharandt, and Wilsdruff.

Points of interest along the way:

  • Church Fördergersdorf
  • Spechtshausen Forestry Office
  • Landberg
  • Geological open-air museum with porphyry fan
  • Waldbad Grund (forest swimming pool)
  • Knox – Incense cone museum
  • Historical narrow-gauge railway facilities
  • Limbach manor estate
  • Local history museum Wilsdruff
  • Historic town hall Wilsdruff with glass carillon
  • Jakobikirche Wilsdruff (motorway church)
  • Narrow-gauge railway museum Wilsdruff
  • Mining monuments in Freital with museum in Burgk Castle
  • Weißeritztalbahn narrow-gauge railway
  • Hains leisure center
  • Heilsberg Park

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