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title: "\"Energy Experience Trail\" by SachsenEnergie AG"
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description: "Go on a discovery route and explore energy in a playful way while hiking. The approximately 40 km long circular trail along the Red and Wild Weißeritz rivers leads you past six historic hydropower plants that generate electricity in an environmentally friendly way. Ten experiential areas with illustrative models invite you to try things out. Points of interest along the way: Heilsberg Park Weißeritztal Railway Hains Leisure Centre NSG Rabenauer Grund Nature Reserve Hydropower Plants Rabenauer Mill Malter Reservoir Höckendorf Animal Park Thelersäulen Klingenberg Reservoir Matchstick Bridge Aurora Adit Edle Krone Station"
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"Energy Experience Trail" by SachsenEnergie AG
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- 39.59 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: difficult
- Condition: very difficult
- Themed hiking trail

Sachsens Dörfer: Höckendorf

- 11:26 h
- 39.59 km
- 524 m
- 524 m
- 190 m
- 454 m
- 264 m
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- Start: Tharandt Dome Hall
- Destination: Tharandt Dome Hall

Go on a discovery route and explore energy in a playful way while hiking. The approximately 40 km long circular trail along the Red and Wild Weißeritz rivers leads you past six historic hydropower plants that generate electricity in an environmentally friendly way. Ten experiential areas with illustrative models invite you to try things out.

Points of interest along the way:

- Heilsberg Park
- Weißeritztal Railway
- Hains Leisure Centre
- NSG Rabenauer Grund Nature Reserve
- Hydropower Plants
- Rabenauer Mill
- Malter Reservoir
- Höckendorf Animal Park
- Thelersäulen
- Klingenberg Reservoir
- Matchstick Bridge
- Aurora Adit
- Edle Krone Station

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Waypoints
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Start

Start

Tharandt Dome Hall

- Café

- Beer garden

- Inn

- Inn

- Bistro

Destination

Destination

Tharandt Dome Hall

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Best to visit

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Depends on weather

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Directions

Tharandt Dome Hall – Freital – Rabenauer Grund – Spechtritz – Seifersdorf – Malter – Paulshain – Höckendorf – Obercunnersdorf – Neuklingenberg – Klingenberg – Dorfhain – Edle Krone – Tharandt Dome Hall

The hiking trail is continuously signposted as the ENSO Energy Experience Trail.

Alternatively, a one-way trip with the Weißeritztal Railway Freital - Malter or a return trip with the S-Bahn S3 or RB 30 Klingenberg - Tharandt is possible (fare zones Dippoldiswalde and Freital VVO).

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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 up to the Wilsdruff junction, then follow the signs to Tharandt

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**Parking**Parking spaces at the market (Am Markt), natural market (Pienner Straße/Dresdner Straße), P+R at the station and Forest Campus TU Dresden (access from Dresdner Straße to the gatekeeper's house) 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 (Fare zone Freital VVO)

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Additional information

https://enso.de/wps/portal/enso/cms/menu\_main/enso/umwelt#pfad and

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Author

Dresden Elbland Redaktion

Organization

Dresden Elbland

License (master data)

Dresden Elbland Redaktion

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

- Weißeritztal Railway
- NSG Rabenauer Grund Nature Reserve
- Hydropower Plants
- Rabenauer Mill
- Malter and Klingenberg Reservoirs
- Matchstick Bridge
- Aurora Adit
- Edle Krone Station

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Contact

01737 Tharandt

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