Ulrich-Wehling-Route

  • 18.08 km long
  • Round trip
  • Difficulty: difficult
  • Condition: difficult
  • Hiking
  • 5:13 h
  • 18.08 km
  • 541 m
  • 540 m
  • 872 m
  • 1,122 m
  • 250 m
  • Start: Valley station of the Fichtelberg cable car, 09484 Kurort Oberwiesenthal, Vierenstraße 10
  • Destination: Valley station of the Fichtelberg cable car

The circular hiking route shows the natural beauties of Zechengrund and Börnerwiesen. Through deep gorges along lively streams, you reach the cable car again via the Ausrücke.

Attention: 

Due to extensive and long-lasting forestry work in the Tellerhäuser area, the Ulrich Wehling Route No. 7 is closed in this section.

The detour goes from Bächelhütte via Proviantweg to Wurzelbergstraße and is signposted.

Open this route on komoot - click here.

The contrasting path shows the natural beauties of Zechengrund and Börnerwiesen before allowing an extensive rest in Tellerhäuser. Through deep gorges along lively streams, you reach the cable car again via the Ausrücke.

--> marked as Ulrich-Wehling-Route (7)

Waypoints

Start
Start
Valley station of the Fichtelberg cable car, 09484 Kurort Oberwiesenthal, Vierenstraße 10
Destination
Destination
Valley station of the Fichtelberg cable car

Good to know

Pavements

Unknown (3%)
Street (1%)
Asphalt (12%)
Gravel (57%)
Trail (11%)
Path (16%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

The starting point of the hike is the valley station of the Fichtelberg cable car; from here you walk via Büttnerweg and Karlsbader Straße onto Alte Poststraße towards Boží Dar. Before the border, turn right and hike past the "Neues Haus" to the Sparkassen ski arena. On shaded forest paths, continue via the Börnerwiesen natural area monument to Tellerhäuser. The path leads you through the forest-rich Fichtelberg nature reserve. Via the Ausrückeweg, you reach the „Rotes Vorwerk“. The last meters of the hike run parallel to Vierenstraße and lead you along the Schindelbachtal back to Oberwiesenthal.
 
 

Tour information

  • Loop Road

  • Stop at an Inn

Directions & Parking facilities

Parking

Car park at the cable car (paid)

Car park at Hüttenbach

Public transportation

Train

Fichtelberg railway from Cranzahl to Oberwiesenthal

Bus

Line 411 from Annaberg-Buchholz to Oberwiesenthal (At the station)

Line 414 from Rittersgrün to Oberwiesenthal (At the station)

Line 429 from Jöhstadt to Oberwiesenthal (At the station)

Line 436 from Neudorf to Oberwiesenthal (At the station)

Line 210 from Chemnitz to Oberwiesenthal (Bus station)

Additional information

Guest information Kurort Oberwiesenthal
Karlsbader Straße 3
09484 Kurort Oberwiesenthal
Tel. +49 37348 1550-50
Fax: +49 37348 1550-182
info@oberwiesenthal.de
www.oberwiesenthal.de

Author

Ute Florl

Organization

Stadt Kurort Oberwiesenthal

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Sights

  • Fichtelberg cable car
  • Photo point „Hedgehog“
  • Monument to Mayor Georg Piltz
  • Sparkassen ski arena
  • Börnerwiesen natural area monument

Places to eat

  • AHORN Hotel am Fichtelberg
  • Berggasthof Neues Haus (Tel. +49 37348 2390) 
  • Erzgebirgsstübel Tellerhäuser (Tel. +49 37348 7126)
  • Sportbaude Waldeck (+49 37348 84969Hotel & Restaurant Jens Weißflog (Tel. +49 37348 10101)
  • Naturbaude Eschenhof (+49 37348 20211)
  • Panorama Hotel (Tel. +49 37348 780) 

Ulrich Wehling - World champion and Olympic bronze medalist in Nordic combined  
 
 

Map

Hiking map Oberwiesenthal & surroundings