• 4.96 km long
  • Difficulty: medium
  • Condition: easy
  • Hiking
  • 1:28 h
  • 4.96 km
  • 96 m
  • 187 m
  • 433 m
  • 621 m
  • 188 m
  • Start: Station of the Weißeritztalbahn Kipsdorf
  • Destination: Station of the Weißeritztalbahn Kipsdorf

The Pöbeldamm is Saxony's largest hydraulic engineering site. It is the first dam in Germany to have a road running through it.

This hike takes you from Kipsdorf railroad station to the Pöbeldamm in Schmiedeberg.

Pavements

Street (5%)
Asphalt (45%)
Gravel (25%)
Trail (22%)
Path (3%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

After a visit to the beautifully designed KIpsdorf railroad station, you first walk - unfortunately on asphalt - approx. 1 km up Max-Reimann-Straße to Alte Böhmische Straße. Now turn half right along this road - Hüttenholzweg - with a wonderful view over the Pöbel valley back down into the valley. Once you reach the edge of the forest, you can see the completion of the Pöbeldamm dam through the trees to the left.

Just under 200 m before the path joins the main road, you can see a small logging area on the right and we hike up there. The line path finally leads over a small hill to the once prepared Bimmelbahn embankment, although a train never ran here. Via the path on the railroad embankment (yellow line) we reach the Brandweg in Schmiedeberg and find the stop of the Weißeritztalbahn.

Of course, you can also hike the tour in reverse.

Directions & Parking facilities

Parking
Station forecourt
Public transportation

Weißeritztalbahn

Bus line 360,367, 370

Author

Erlebnisheimat Erzgebirge

Organization

Erlebnisheimat Erzgebirge

Map

Osterzgebirge - between Dippoldiswalde and Teplice ( Sachsen Kartographie)