Village walk - Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz - The Space Village

The tour from the Space Exhibition leads past the old Rautenkranz station of the former Chemnitz-Aue-Adorf railway line. On certain running days, you can ride here with the Wernesgrüner Rail Express. Continuing in a wild romantic way, it goes to the station pond, which is covered with the small pond rose, a relic of the last Ice Age. Passing an old factory site, turning right, the path winds uphill along the forest until it turns right into Badstraße. Following the signpost to the fallow deer enclosure, you soon meet some magnificent specimens belonging to the deer family. Going straight ahead, you pass the former outdoor swimming pool (now a fire fighting pond). At the end of the street, turn left onto Alwin-Gerisch-Straße and walk past the birthplace of Alwin Gerisch, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Following this street to the end, the village walk continues straight ahead a little way along the forest until turning right onto Carlsfelder Straße, leading back towards the village center. Continuing to the Funke demonstration embroidery, where you can admire true masterpieces of embroidery art on two traditional large embroidery machines. Directly opposite is the forest park with its old pitch herds formerly used to produce pitch. Turning right at the fire station equipment house, you reach "Am Schlosserberg 1," the parental home of Dr. Sigmund Jähn. Above the two newly built blocks, turn left and continue holding left to the only church preserved in the neoclassical architectural style with original iron bells from the Morgenröth foundry. Going down Kirchberg towards the roundabout, turn right towards the Space Exhibition past the "Spacecafe" of the Schürer bakery to the starting point of our route.