• 20.18 km long
  • Difficulty: easy
  • Condition: very easy
  • Cycling
  • 3:43 h
  • 20.18 km
  • 264 m
  • 265 m
  • 588 m
  • 816 m
  • 228 m
  • Start: Walthersdorf
  • Destination: Walthersdorf

Crottendorf pleasure tour.

Cycle off and pack your rucksack full of delicacies from regional producers - a 20 km tour becomes a day-long experience for the whole family with a look at beekeeping, cheese-making, liqueur production and the Crottendorf smoking candle country. The Crottendorf pleasure tour combines idyllic countryside, agriculture and Erzgebirge craft businesses.

The tour starts in the district of Walthersdorf at the old railroad station, which houses a small railroad museum. Cycle along the Zschopau valley cycle path towards Crottendorf, stopping at a Kneipp treading pool before reaching the Landhaus Bienentau apiary. Picturesquely situated between meadows, it is worth taking a break to browse in the farm store. Continuing along the Zschopautal cycle path, you cycle on to the Fritzsch family, who run a traditional farm cheese dairy with an ice cream stand. The milk comes from their own cows, which you can see grazing on the lush Erzgebirge meadows from your bike. Next stop past Crottendorf Park: Grenzwald-Destillation - a liqueur producer that knows how to transform Erzgebirge fruit and herbs into high-proof gourmet delights. At the "Gasthof Glashütte" junction, a detour to the right to the Crottendorf Smoking Candle Land is an absolute must. Apart from the scented cones in a wide variety of fragrances and colors that are produced there, the Cafè Annabella invites you to make a delicious stopover. Here you can enjoy coffee, homemade cakes and ice cream.

Well fortified, you return to the Zschopautalweg, which you cycle up to the junction towards Siebensäure, via Siebensäure and the Firstenweg past charming viewpoints and through refreshing forest to complete the circle at the starting point of the railroad museum.

See and experience: Playground village square OT Walthersdorf, treading water in a Kneipp basin, visit honey store, farm cheese dairy with many delicacies, outdoor pool, church ensemble, Noah's Ark playground, park with playground, schnapps museum, smoking candle museum, Wettinstein viewpoint near the Oberwiesenthal Straße/Sanducherkerzenmuseum, Wettinstein viewpoint near the Oberwiesenthaler Straße/Sandgrube hiking parking lot, peat bog at Siebensäure, viewpoints into the Sehmatal valley (e.g. Kleiner Wolfstein), Rahee.g. Kleiner Wolfstein), Raubmordstein, Rosenbachtal and Rosenbuschzeche in Walthersdorf and much more.

On your cycle tour, don't miss out on a detour to Räucherkerzenland Crottendorf with its show workshop and museum, where you can make your own incense candles, just like around 80 years ago. The adventure playground is guaranteed to keep the little ones entertained and parents will have time to treat themselves at Café Annabella.

Start
Start
Walthersdorf
Destination
Destination
Walthersdorf

Pavements

Unknown (1%)
Street (21%)
Asphalt (14%)
Gravel (51%)
Trail (9%)
Path (4%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

Start: Hikers' parking lot Railway Museum OT Walthersdorf - Zschopautalradweg - to the Torfstraße junction - left towards Siebensäure - here we take the Firstenweg to the Plattenstraße junction to Walthersdorf (hiking trail marked white-green-white), cross the industrial area to the Zschopautalradweg - on the right we reach the wonderful destination: Hikers' parking lot Railway Museum Crottendorf OT Walthersdorf.

This cycle tour can also be started from the hiking parking lots "Am Park", "August-Bebel-Straße" and "Oberwiesenthaler Straße".

Directions & Parking facilities

Public transportation
Bus

Additional information

Guest information Crottendorf, August-Bebel-Straße 231c, 09474 Crottendorf, Tel.: 037344 7153 or 7650, Mail: info@crottendorf.de, Web www.crottendorf.de

Author

Ute Florl

Organization

Erlebnisheimat Erzgebirge

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

RADschlag

- Honey store "Bienentau"
- Outdoor pool (currently not open)
- Smoked candle country Crottendorf
- Park with playground (playground currently not open)
- Fritzsch farm cheese factoryserei Fritzsch
- Church ensemble
- Railway museum (currently not open)
- "Rosenbuschzeche" silver mine with rest and relaxation area (mine currently not open)

Dining
- Deutsches Haus restaurant
- Landgasthof und Pension "Am Park"
- Cafe "Annabella"
- Glashütte restaurant
- Gatsstätte Siebensaüre

Service
Bicycle repair and rental: Zweirad-Georgi, Tel. 037344 8533