The starting point for this stage is the traffic circle in the city center. We head north into Klosterstraße and turn left into Staupitzstraße. At the end of the street, we cross Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße and continue straight on past the swimming pool parallel to the Mulde river. Here we turn left and keep to the course of the river for 1.5 kilometers. We first cross under a railroad bridge, then turn left and continue under the B 175. After the motorway bridge, we turn right and immediately left again after the Mühlgraben. At the priority road, we turn left again and continue straight ahead over the B 169. From now on, we continue straight ahead with the river on our left. After 3 kilometers in Technitz, continue straight ahead on the main road. After another 1.5 kilometers, we cross under the railroad tracks again at Bischofswiese and then immediately turn left again. In Westewitz, we turn left at the T-junction over the tracks and immediately turn right again. We follow the Scheergrundweg for 3.5 kilometers and turn left at the waterworks and after another 2.5 kilometers we can marvel at the former Cistercian monastery Buch, after crossing the railroad underpass on the left again. We continue across the Freiberger Mulde to Paudritzsch, where we keep right at the fork and then close to the river. We pass the train station in Leisnig, then keep right and cross the railroad tracks again onto the road An Der Muldenwiese. We now come to the S 36, turn left here and immediately after the railroad bridge turn sharp right. We keep to the railroad tracks and turn right 100 meters after the church into Fabrikstraße over the tracks. We then cross under the main road on the right, follow the path and take the subsequent junction to the right towards Altleisnig. In Altleisnig, we cross the Mulde bridge and then immediately turn left through Wiesenthal and Marschwitz. At the end of Marschwitz, we take the turn-off to the left along the Freiberger Mulde. Once again, we pass under a railroad bridge and keep close to the course of the river on our left for 2.5 kilometers until we reach Tanndorf. On the other side of the river, we can see the Podelwitz moated castle. At the crossroads in Maaschwitz, we turn left. After a further 2.5 kilometers along the dyke path through Erlln, we reach a T-junction. Here we turn left and in 100 meters we reach the confluence of the Freiberger and Zwickauer Mulde rivers. At the T-junction, however, we turn right and follow the path further along the Vereinigte Mulde.
