ハラのおすすめツーリングルート

There's a lot to discover in and around the market square. You can find practically everything you need in the immediate vicinity. Opening hours, however, differ slightly from those you'd expect in larger cities :)

Absolutely delicious, and I highly recommend eating the sausages or other items there. Parking is plentiful and free.

The Rennsteig Trail ends at this bridge—the border between Thuringia and Bavaria. Here, the pebbles collected from the Werra in Hörschel are transferred to the Selbitz River.

In 1887, the local railway line from Hof via Naila to Marxgrün was opened and extended to Bad Steben in 1898. As early as 1897, Blankenstein received a railway connection via Lobenstein to Triptis. Due to the industrialization of the Franconian Forest, particularly the Rosenthal paper mill, an extension of the line through the Höllental Valley to Marxgrün was planned. From 1900 to 1901, 250 workers built the 6.3-kilometer-long Höllental Railway from Marxgrün via Hölle, through the valley, and via Blechschmidtenhammer to Blankenstein. On August 14, 1901, the first train ran through the Höllental Valley. In April 1945, the last train ran on the Höllental Railway. The inner-German border marked the end of the connection between Bavaria and Thuringia. In 1971, freight traffic to Blechschmidtenhammer ended on the Bavarian side. Around ten years later, the German Federal Railway had the tracks in the Höllental Valley torn out. The old train station building in Blechschmidtenhammer has been preserved and is now the information center of the Franconian Forest Nature Park.

Quite a lot of wood in front of the hut.

You have to enjoy this view.

The post-reunification generation can no longer compare. But the journey is worthwhile because of the repeated changes from forest to open land.

A very nice bike path