10th Route: With Fairy Tales and Legends through the Tharandt Forest

Highlights on the Tour

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Information

Culturally interesting
Rest stop available
Loop trail

Starting point

Kurplatz Kurort Hartha

Destination

Kurplatz Kurort Hartha

Author's tip

Kneipp Facilities

Fairy Tale and Legend Stations

Triebisch Valley

Getting there by car

Motorway A4 to the Wilsdruff junction, then follow signs to Tharandt and from there further to Kurort Hartha (Parkhotel Forsthaus)

Parking

Parking available, among others, at Talmühlenstraße, Lindenhofstraße, and Am Hartheberg (Bell Chair or Spa Park)

Public transport

S-Bahn S3 Dresden-Tharandt-Freiberg, regional train RB30 Dresden-Zwickau or regional express RE3 Dresden-Hof to train station P+R Tharandt and then by bus lines 345 or 363 to Kurort Hartha, Kurplatz (Fare zone Freital VVO)

Equipment

Sturdy footwear required.

Literature

With Fairy Tales and Legends through the Tharandt Forest; Kneipp Association 'At the Tharandt Forest' e.V.; SEW-Verlags GbR, Dresden 2015

Map/Maps

State Enterprise Geobasisinformation and Surveying Saxony (ed.): Hiking Map Tharandt Forest, Sheet 31 (Topographic map, edition with hiking trails, 1:25,000) 3rd edition, August 2008, ISBN 978-3-86170-082-1

Rolf Böhm: Hiking Map Tharandt Forest. The first forest of Saxony. (1:20,000) 1st edition. Bad Schandau 2004. ISBN 3-910181-19-8

More info / Links

https://www.kneippbund.de/fileadmin/user_upload/kneipp-bund/dokumente/kneipp-intern/2015/06/Am_Tharandter_Wald_Froschkoenig.pdf

Companion booklet "With Fairy Tales and Legends through the Tharandt Forest" available, among others, at Zweirad-Center Schubert, Am Kurplatz 3, 01737 Kurort Hartha

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