Yellow battery locomotive from SEG loop from Solms

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Yellow battery locomotive from SEG loop from Solms

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Yellow battery locomotive from SEG loop from Solms

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15.0km

250m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 7, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Naturpark Lahn-Dill-Bergland

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.24 km

View over Solms and Braunfels Castle

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Fabulous panoramic view towards the Taunus.

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3.10 km

View of Niederbiel in the Lahn Valley

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From this place you not only have a great view of Niederbiel.
The Feldberg / Ts., The Braunfels Castle and the Lahn valley also offer a fabulous backdrop for the beholder.

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11.5 km

Engine House of the Fortuna Mine

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very nice "Lost Place"

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11.6 km

Old Engine House Grube Fortuna (Geoworld Fortuna Association)

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The old machine house was built by Friedrich Krupp AG. It had a steam engine that operated the mine hoisting.
The Malakov Tower had a water boiler facility for the steam engine.
In 1943 a shaft collapse ended operations.

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11.8 km

Feld- und Grubenbahnmuseum Fortuna e.V.

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Trips on the 600 mm tracks with the field and mine railways are usually offered on Sundays. The lantern rides will take place, for example, on October 29th, 2022 and …

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11.9 km

Zechenhaus with mining museum, changing room, helmet room, and restaurant

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The mine house is a mining museum and demonstrates the hard life of the miners with information about history, geology and the hard, unhealthy life.
Visitors are led through the …

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12.0 km

Portal of the Fortuna Mine (Geoworld Fortuna e.V.)

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From the mouth of the deep tunnel, 4.8 million tons of iron ore mined from 1849 to 1983 came out in railway lorries, which were taken up to 250 meters …

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12.0 km

yellow battery locomotive from SEG

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Here is a yellow battery locomotive from SEG, built in 1987, in the Fortuna mine parking lot.

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15.0 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

11.5 km

1.76 km

882 m

777 m

Surfaces

6.45 km

4.13 km

2.84 km

955 m

515 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 11 October

14°C

1°C

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Max wind speed: 8.0 km/h

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Comments

January 23, 2022,Auf den Spuren der Bergmannsroute ⚒

In the summer I walked the miners' route from Wetzlar to Braunfels...

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...and we wanted to go to the Fortuna mine again today. Always an experience and amazing what the miners used to do.
We started in Oberbiel and spent a good part of the way on the miners' route.
In the summer, of course, fantastically beautiful and well …

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February 23, 2025,Auf den Spuren der Bergmannsroute - Grube Fortuna ⚒️

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End of the weekend at the Fortuna mine from Oberbiel via part of the miners' route.
The Fortuna mine was already open and this resulted in a good rush.
Of course, people looked for a way outside in this beautiful sunshine.
Good food, children playing and there was something to see everywhere.

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