Mining educational trail Silberstraße Ehrenfriedersdorf

  • 12.98 km long
  • Round trip
  • Difficulty: difficult
  • Condition: difficult
  • Great panorama
  • Hiking
  • 3:25 h
  • 12.98 km
  • 245 m
  • 245 m
  • 533 m
  • 706 m
  • 173 m
  • Start: Visitor mine Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf, Am Sauberg 109427 Ehrenfriedersdorf
  • Destination: Visitor mine Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf, Am Sauberg 109427 Ehrenfriedersdorf

The mining educational trail offers numerous opportunities with over 30 stations to get to know the beautiful "Greifenstein area" more closely over 13.7 km.

This educational trail is designed as a circular route and begins at the visitor mine "Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf" on the Sauberg. One of the Purple Path - artworks on the occasion of the Cultural Capital Chemnitz 2025 is located here. From there, the path continues into the industrial area and then along the old narrow-gauge railway route to the Greifenbach valley. Along the Röhrgraben, it leads to the Greifenbach reservoir, which served as the oldest reservoir in Saxony for supplying the tin washing plants in the Greifenstein forest. Along the way, numerous witnesses of old mining are encountered, such as tunnel mouths and stamp mill ruins. With the ascent to the lookout rock of the Greifensteine, the view sweeps across the Ore Mountains. The Albin-Langer-Weg then leads further to Ehrenfriedersdorf, from where you return to Sauberg via the old miners' path "Lange Gasse."

Waypoints

Start
Start
Visitor mine Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf, Am Sauberg 109427 Ehrenfriedersdorf

Good to know

Pavements

Unknown (1%)
Street (1%)
Asphalt (29%)
Gravel (27%)
Trail (19%)
Path (24%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Tour information

  • Cultural Interesting

  • Loop Road

  • Stop at an Inn

Equipment

Sturdy footwear is recommended

Directions & Parking facilities

Getting there
The starting point is best reached via the B95 from Annaberg-Buchholz or Chemnitz. 
Parking
Car park at the Ehrenfriedersdorf visitor mine (free of charge)

Car park - at the Greifensteine camping park

Car park - at the Greifensteine

Hiking car park - Greifensteine

Car park - Albin-Langer-Weg

Market square Ehrenfriedersdorf

Hiking car park - at the outdoor swimming pool

Car park at the Wappler pond Ehrenfriedersdorf

Car park industrial area Ehrenfriedersdorf

Car park Greifenbachmühle Ehrenfriedersdorf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public transportation
Bus - Line 210

Stops at/in the vicinity of the hiking route:

Geyer, Gh Teichschänke

Ehrenfriedersdorf, Greifenbachmühle

Ehrenfriedersdorf Market Square

Ehrenfriedersdorf, path to the Greifensteine

 

Additional information

Detailed tour description at www.berggrabebruederschaft-ehrenfriedersdorf.de under the point mining educational trail

Berggrabebrüderschaft Ehrenfriedersdorf e.V.

Saubergstraße 1

09427 Ehrenfriedersdorf

Tel. +49 37341 2048 (Chairman Joachim Decker)

bb-ehrenfriedersdorf@bergbautradition-sachsen.de

www.berggrabebruederschaft-ehrenfriedersdorf.de

General information:

Visitor mine/Mineralogical Museum Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf

Tel. 037341 2557

Author

Greifensteinregion

Organization

Greifensteinregion

License (master data)

Greifensteinregion
License: no copyright required (Public domain) (no copyright)

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Along the path, you can discover numerous mining traces such as tunnel entrances, stamp mill ruins, and bell pits. 

Safety guidelines

The lookout rock of the Greifensteine is open depending on the weather. In winter, in case of snow, ice, frost, or strong winds, the lookout rock is usually closed.