• 19.65 km long
  • Round trip
  • Difficulty: medium
  • Condition: easy
  • Hiking
  • 5:00 h
  • 19.65 km
  • 199 m
  • 248 m
  • 713 m
  • 881 m
  • 168 m
  • Start: Hotel Lugsteinhof Zinnwald
  • Destination: Hotel Lugsteinhof Zinnwald
Cross-border hike from Altenberg/Zinnwald to the viewpoint on Mückenberg/CZ with impressive views over the Bohemian Basin and back to the German side of the Ore Mountains ridge.

Start
Start
Hotel Lugsteinhof Zinnwald
Destination
Destination
Hotel Lugsteinhof Zinnwald

Pavements

Unknown (90%)
Street (3%)
Asphalt (5%)
Gravel (1%)
Trail (1%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

Mückenberg (Komáří hůrka)

Viewpoint and Hotel Mückentürmchen (Komáří vížka)

Start at Hotel Lugsteinhof. Turn left onto clearing 30, at the weather station the border to the Czech Republic is crossed, at the golf course turn left onto the connecting road Moldava – Cinovec up to the pedestrian crossing on the extension of the B 170, through the Bohemian part of Zinnwald to the left onto the connecting road Cinovec – Fojtovice,

Past the church to the red trail marker, car park to the right into the forest on the ridge of the Eastern Ore Mountains. Follow the well-marked red trail through forest and meadow paths on the “Beer Trail” and pause briefly at the “Beer Rest”, shortly afterwards you reach an asphalt path and see to the left the Mückenberg (Komáří hůrka) with the viewpoint and Hotel Mückentürmchen (Komáří vížka). From there, there is a breathtaking view over the Bohemian Basin 

The return route follows this asphalt hiking and cycling path until shortly after a dilapidated forester's house (approx. 4.5 kilometers from the Mückentürmchen), then turn right uphill to the new holiday homes of Cinovec, follow the signage to Hotel Pomezi, just before this hotel use the newly built pedestrian and ski bridge over the former E 55.

Leave the golf course to the left and return to the starting point.

Tour information

  • Cultural Interesting

  • Loop Road

  • Stop at an Inn

  • Summit

Directions & Parking facilities

Parking
Hiking car park at the former border station,

Car park at Hotel Lugsteinhof

Public transportation
Bus

Additional information

Hotel Lugsteinhof
Neugeorgenfeld 36
District Zinnwald-Georgenfeld
01773 Altenberg
Phone:  (0049) 3 50 56 / 36 50
Fax:  (0049) 3 50 56 / 36 55 5
E-mail:  info@lugsteinhof.de
www.lugsteinhof.de

Author

Erlebnisheimat Erzgebirge

Organization

Erlebnisheimat Erzgebirge

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Sights
1. Winter Sports Museum in the Eastern Ore Mountains Hotel Lugsteinhof Zinnwald   
Zinnwald Weather Station  
(Guided tours from Lugsteinhof on Mondays from 1:45 pm)  
Georgenfeld Raised Bog open from April to October  
Visitor mine Tiefen Bünaustollen Zinnwald  
Tue to Sun 10:00 am to 3:00 pm  
Major conservation project “Mountain Meadows in the Eastern Ore Mountains”  
(Border meadows Fürstenau and Fürstenauer Heide)  
St. Wolfgang Chapel below the Mückentürmchen  
Sat-Sun 11:00 am to 4:00 pm  
Oldest chairlift in Central Europe from the Mückentürmchen  
to the town of Krupka   year-round every 30 minutes from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm  
 Places to eat 

Hotel Lugsteinhof                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Phone 0049 35056 365-0  www.lugsteinhof.de

Berghotel Mückentürmchen with restaurant 
Phone: 0042 417861348   www.komarivizka.eu/en
Hotel Pomezi (Berghof Ausspanne) Cinovec  
Phone: 00420 417888005    www.pomezi.cz/en     
Restaurant at the golf course  Krusnohorsky Dvur (Ore Mountains Court) 
Phone: 00420 606724995   www.krusnohorskydvur.cz