© Tilo Harder, Stadt Freital

Over the Pesterwitz and Wurgwitz heights

At a glance

  • Start: Parking lot on Carl-Thieme-Straße in Freital-Potschappel. Of course, the tour can also be started at any other point and can be walked in both directions.
  • Destination: in each case as the starting point
  • Medium
  • 12,45 km
  • 3 hours 25 minutes
  • 299 m
  • 273 m
  • 158 m

Winegrowing since Bishop Benno, the dispute over a castle in the wake of which Dresden was first mentioned, mining and around 1000 years of settlement have shaped the landscape of this tour.

There were once several vineyards on the slopes to the north of today's Freital, which are still recognizable as such today. We pass these as well as the vineyard newly planted in 1986 - the highest in Saxony. Otherwise, we hike through a landscape that is characterized by fruit growing and agriculture, but also reveals traces of early industrial coal mining. In between, there are numerous magnificent views of the Döhlen basin and the Windberg massif. From the former winery in Pesterwitz, you can even see as far as the Osterzgebirge mountains and Saxon Switzerland on a clear day. In between, several small and cozy country inns invite you to linger. If the tour is too long for you, you can also take a shortcut after about halfway and "save" the second part for another day.

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Pavings

  • Unknown (24%)
  • Street (6%)
  • Tarmac (59%)
  • Gravel (8%)
  • Path (4%)

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