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A beautiful rest area with a healing spring. The Max-Marien spring provides a calcium bicarbonate acidic spring. Bottles of the healing water can be brought along from the well house in Langenau. The calcium-rich water stimulates kidney function and is recommended for gout and diseases of the urinary tract.

The Langenau Floating Pond is a historic pond in the Langenau Valley in the Franconian Forest, formerly used for timber rafting. Today, it is a nature reserve and an important habitat, particularly for beavers, who have their burrows there.

From here, you can access several of the Franconian Forest's main hiking trails. The "Säuerlingsweg DÖ 97" also starts from this free parking lot.

The route climbs gently almost continuously, gaining a total elevation of 150 meters. Unfortunately, more and more forest disappears along the route.

Starting point for many hikes - free and with information board

Here you can drink healing water for free

The pond was built on behalf of the Bavarian king to raise the water level in the Langenau in order to float the felled timber towards the Main

In Bad Steben, the topics of mining and geology are unavoidable. Gold was panned west of the spa town, and iron ore was mined around Bad Steben until 1858. The "Geology and Mining" educational trail from Bad Steben to Blechschmidtenhammer, with 17 display panels, vividly illustrates the more than 1,000-year history of mining in the region. In 1793, Alexander von Humboldt founded the "Bergschule zu Steben" (Mining School of Steben) in Bad Steben, the world's first vocational school for miners. A mine railway in the park opposite the spa building commemorates the coal and fluorspar mining, which ended in 1968.