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.