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Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains

Guido Brescius Trail

Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains

Freital

Guido Brescius Trail

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Guido Brescius Trail

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Location: Freital, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG

April 16, 2021

The bike and hiking trail, which is now well developed, was originally a historically significant railway line. It has been called Guido-Brescius-Weg since 2019. Guido Brescius (1824–1864) was the chief engineer of the Albertsbahn AG and thus responsible for the planning and construction of a railway line from Dresden through the Plauen reason to Tharandt. But especially for the Hänichen coal branch, on which you are here. With this, the mines around Obergittersee, in the Windberg area and on the Hänichener Flur could be opened up. Before that, the extracted hard coal was brought into the Elbe Valley in horse-drawn vehicles along the many coal roads, which was very difficult. Due to the line layout with several bends, large inclinations and narrow track curves, this coal branch railway is a masterpiece by Brescius ‘. The standard-gauge railway is the oldest mountain railway in Germany and, after the Semmering Railway in Austria, the second oldest in Europe, which has earned it the nickname of the Saxon Semmering Railway. But it is even better known as the Windbergbahn. On the former route of the Windbergbahn we walk to the left in an arc around the Kleinnaundorf, which is in the depression. In this arch, the coal railway once branched off to the right to the shafts on the Windberg.

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Teufelchen New

April 17, 2021

The Guido-Brescius-Weg is basically the route on the old embankment of the Windbergbahn. Brescius was chief engineer of the Albertsbahn Dresden - Tharandt and the Hänichen coal branch.

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Stadtmarketing Freital

November 9, 2021

asphalted former railway embankment is well suited for cycling and inline skating

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Location: Freital, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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Guido Brescius Trail

1. Historic Sandstone Waymarker loop from Burgk

2. Kaitzer Heights – Kaitzbachtal Pond loop from Kaitz

3. Hiking loop from Obergittersee

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