Routes Planner Features Updates

Login or Signup

Login or Signup

Login or Signup

Hiking trails & Routes

Upper Franconia

Franconian Switzerland

Landkreis Bayreuth

Wasserstein Gate – Hexentor Rock Arch loop from Betzenstein

Hiking trails & Routes

Upper Franconia

Franconian Switzerland

Landkreis Bayreuth

Wasserstein Gate – Hexentor Rock Arch loop from Betzenstein

Moderate

4.3

(6)

18

hikers

Wasserstein Gate – Hexentor Rock Arch loop from Betzenstein

00:42

2.61km

30m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Mostly walkable paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 21, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

Please check local regulations for:

Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz - Frankenjura

Waypoints

A

Start point

Parking

1

166 m

Picnic Area at the Rock Arch in Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz - Frankenjura

Highlight • Natural Monument

Here you can rest and watch the climbers climbing.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

2

166 m

Great Wasserstein Rock Shelter

Highlight • Cave

The large water stone is a dolomite massif with two rock groups and a cave system. In the northern area there is a smaller cave system with about ten meters …

Translated by Google •

Tip by

3

259 m

Wasserstein Gate

Highlight • Natural Monument

The largest rock gate of the water stones, what forces must have worked here.
Especially when the sun is falling through the gate and the trees

Translated by Google •

Tip by

4

292 m

Rock Gate

Highlight • Natural Monument

5

495 m

Rock cave in Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz - Frankenjura

Highlight • Cave

You have to be very thin to squeeze into this crevasse ;-)

Translated by Google •

Tip by

6

659 m

Wasserstein Cave Labyrinth

Highlight • Cave

We wasted a lot of time on the Wassersteiner Felsenlabirint and there is a reason for that, you can marvel at a number of grottos and beautiful rocks along the way.
The route is not on file with Komoot.

Translated by Google •

Tip by

7

1.48 km

Hexentor Rock Arch

Highlight • Natural Monument

The natural monument Hexentor is an almost circular rock gate and is considered a Celtic place of power. Not so long ago, the witches probably performed their dances on the …

Translated by Google •

Tip by

8

1.51 km

Rock Gate

Highlight • Natural Monument

B

2.61 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

867 m

691 m

667 m

310 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.09 km

691 m

460 m

235 m

< 100 m

< 100 m

Sign up to see more specific route details

Sign up for free

Elevation

Nothing selected – click and drag below to see the stats for a specific part of the route.

Sign up to see more specific route details

Sign up for free

Weather

Powered by Foreca

Monday 9 November

6°C

0°C

0 %

Additional weather tips

It’s going to be cold. Wrap up warm and watch out for ice.

to get more detailed weather forecasts along your route

Comments

Want to know more?

Sign up for a free komoot account to join the conversation.

Sign up for free

Our route recommendations are based on thousands of hikes, rides, and runs completed by other people on komoot.

Navigate Send to Phone

Move start point

Embed on a website

Report an Issue

Report restricted access

Nearby routes

4.8

3,556

Aufseß Breweries Trail

03:25h

13.0km

120m

4.8

2,857

Promenade trail - circular tour in Franconian Switzerland

01:15h

4.47km

80m

4.5

1,400

Valley and uplands hike

03:03h

11.1km

180m

4.7

1,348

Archaeological Loop

02:31h

8.65km

230m

4.9

834

1000-metre elevation gain loop

07:11h

23.5km

810m

4.6

1,158

Culinary Castle Tour – west loop

02:52h

10.4km

160m

4.2

953

To the rock village and rock gate - Franconian Switzerland

03:42h

13.0km

300m

4.8

702

Petershöhle Loop

02:16h

7.83km

200m

4.6

741

Schlossberg to the Burgberg

02:58h

10.1km

280m

4.5

786

Hike to the beautiful view

03:47h

13.5km

270m

4.7

616

800-metre elevation gain loop

05:47h

18.1km

740m

4.7

608

Hohenstein – SevenSummits in the Nuremberg region

03:06h

10.1km

340m