Through the Schwarzwassertal (Pobershau)

  • 13.49 km long
  • Round trip
  • Difficulty: medium
  • Condition: easy
  • Great panorama
  • Hiking
  • 3:50 h
  • 13.49 km
  • 176 m
  • 176 m
  • 540 m
  • 707 m
  • 167 m
  • Start: Hiking parking lot Hinterer Grund (nature conservation station), 09496 Marienberg, Hinterer Grund
  • Destination: Hiking parking lot Hinterer Grund

This circular hike leads into the nature reserve "Schwarzwassertal" with its impressive rock formations and to testimonies of the mining history of Marienberg with its districts. 

Marking: E3 white-blue-white, ridgeway, white-blue-white, EB white-red-white

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Good to know

Pavements

Street (10%)
Asphalt (21%)
Gravel (30%)
Trail (11%)
Path (29%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

The hike starts at the parking lot in the "Hinterer Grund" and leads into the nature reserve "Schwarzwassertal". Slightly off the path, after 500 m on the right, the portal of the "Tief Blühend Frisch Glück Stolln" can be seen as an old mining testimony. After about 1 km, the wild romantic part of the valley with various rock formations begins. After another approx. 4.5 km, you reach the "Steinerne Brücke" (stone bridge) to the "Grüner Graben". The altitude here is 750 m. The return path now begins to the right towards "Katzenstein", always following the flow direction along the "Grüner Graben". After 7 km, you reach the viewing rock "Katzenstein". From there, the Arnoldweg (to the right) or Weintraubenweg to the left can be taken as a return path to the starting point.

Tour information

  • Loop Road

  • Stop at an Inn

Directions & Parking facilities

Parking

Hiking parking lot Hinterer Grund, 09496 Marienberg OT Pobershau

Parking lot at the Hüttstattmühle

Parking lot at Katzenstein

Public transportation

Bus

Line E Pobershau

Stop Pobershau/Kniebreche (2.5 km to the hike start!)

Additional information

Guest office Pobershau
Dorfstr. 68, 09496 Marienberg OT Pobershau
Tel. +49 30735 23436

Author

Ute Florl

Organization

Stadtverwaltung Marienberg

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Attractions
• Tief Blühend Frisch Glück Stolln
• Rock formations Vogeltoffelfelsen, Ringmauer, Teufelsmauer, Nonnenfelsen
• Viewing rock Katzenstein


Places to eat and drink
• Hotel »Schwarzbeerschänke***S«, Pobershau (Tel. +49 3735 91910)

• Inn "Schwarzwassertal", Kühnhaide (Tel. +49 37364 8710), closed Tue/Wed

• Country inn & guesthouse "Berghaus am Katzenstein", Pobershau (Tel. +49 3735 91490), closed Wed/Thu

Map

Topographic map sheet 27 Central Ore Mountains/Marienberg