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title: "11. Route: Hiking with Time"
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description: "The Technical Watch Exhibition Hennig e.V. in the spa town of Hartha created this unique educational trail, where you can follow the trail of different local times and time zones from station to station. Along the way, the unique sun carousel, the exhibition of the watch exhibition in the former municipal office Kurort Hartha, and the flower sundial at the spa square Kurort Hartha invite you to visit. The Technical Watch Exhibition is open every first and third Sunday of the month from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, and also by appointment, gladly with a guided tour. On the return path at the Bell Chair in Kurort Hartha, you can learn why the New Year can be greeted here three times. Attractions along the way: Royal Saxon milestone and Electoral Saxon postal milestone Tharandt Sun carousel Technical watch exhibition Kirchner Flower sundial Sunbathing area Prussian entrenchment Bell chair Forest park/Forest botanical garden Tharandt"
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11. Route: Hiking with Time
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- 10.97 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: medium
- Condition: easy
- Great panorama
- Themed hiking trail

- 3:02 h
- 10.97 km
- 227 m
- 227 m
- 212 m
- 404 m
- 192 m
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- Start: Roßmäßler building Tharandt, campus of TU Dresden Faculty of Forestry
- Destination: Roßmäßler building Tharandt, campus of TU Dresden Faculty of Forestry

A hike on a unique educational trail, where you can follow the trail of different local times from station to station, independent of the currently applied time zone.

The Technical Watch Exhibition Hennig e.V. in the spa town of Hartha created this unique educational trail, where you can follow the trail of different local times and time zones from station to station. Along the way, the unique sun carousel, the exhibition of the watch exhibition in the former municipal office Kurort Hartha, and the flower sundial at the spa square Kurort Hartha invite you to visit. The **Technical Watch Exhibition** is **open** every **first** and **third Sunday of the month** from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, and also by appointment, gladly with a guided tour. On the return path at the Bell Chair in Kurort Hartha, you can learn why the New Year can be greeted here three times.

Attractions along the way:

- Royal Saxon milestone and Electoral Saxon postal milestone Tharandt
- Sun carousel
- Technical watch exhibition
- Kirchner
- Flower sundial
- Sunbathing area
- Prussian entrenchment
- Bell chair
- Forest park/Forest botanical garden Tharandt

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Good to know
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Pavements

Unknown (14%)

Street (23%)

Asphalt (3%)

Gravel (7%)

Trail (19%)

Path (34%)

Best to visit

suitable

Depends on weather

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Tour information

- Cultural Interesting
- Loop Road

Equipment

Sturdy footwear required.

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Directions & Parking facilities

**Getting there**Motorway A4 to Wilsdruff junction, then follow the signs to Tharandt

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**Parking**Parking lots at the market (Am Markt), nature market (Pienner Straße/Dresdner Straße), P+R at the train station and Forstcampus TU Dresden (access from Dresdner Straße to the track watchman's hut), as well as at Roßmäßlerstraße and at the primary school (Wilsdruffer Straße)

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**Public transportation**S-Bahn S3 Dresden-Tharandt-Freiberg, Regional train RB30 Dresden-Zwickau or Regional express RE3 Dresden-Hof to P+R Tharandt station (Freital tariff zone VVO)

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Additional information

https://www.tharandt.de/tharandt/Tourismus/Sekundenweg.html

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Literature

Flyer Technical Watch Exhibition, Seconds Path, Sun Carousel and Flower Sundial available at the Technical Watch Exhibition and at the tourist information boards along the route

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Author

Dresden Elbland Redaktion

Organization

Dresden Elbland

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

- Forest park/Forest botanical garden Tharandt
- Sun carousel
- Technical watch exhibition
- Flower sundial
- Sunbathing area
- Sphere pitch stone
- Prussian entrenchment
- Bell chair

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Contact

01737 Tharandt

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