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Upper Franconia

🏛️ Fantaisie Castle – Salamandertal Sandstone Gorge loop from Bayreuth

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Hiking trails & Routes

Germany

Bavaria

Upper Franconia

🏛️ Fantaisie Castle – Salamandertal Sandstone Gorge loop from Bayreuth

Moderate

4.6

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🏛️ Fantaisie Castle – Salamandertal Sandstone Gorge loop from Bayreuth

04:27

16.5km

220m

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: April 22, 2026

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4.30 km

Örtelfelsen

Highlight • Natural Monument

A natural monument worth seeing right next to the path. The sandstone rock is weathered in an interesting way.

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5.21 km

🏛️ Schloss Fantaisie mit Schlosspark

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Fantaisie Castle is in Eckersdorf-Donndorf, five kilometers west of Bayreuth.
It was built as a further summer residence (after the Hermitage) for the Margrave couple Friedrich and Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. …

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5.29 km

⛲ Neptune Fountain

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The daughter of Margrave Friedrich, Elisabeth Friederike Sophie, received the property in 1763 and called it »Fantaisie«. She had the palace completed and a late baroque garden laid out by …

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5.36 km

Vineyard terraces at Fantaisie Palace Park

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Between 1839 and 1881, Duke Alexander II of Württemberg gave Fantaisie's castle park its current form. Posterity owes him, among other things, the wine terraces on the castle slope.

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5.52 km

Schloss Fantaisie

Highlight • Castle

The complex is not to be missed if you are nearby, very well maintained and parking is available.

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6.42 km

Mühlbrünnlein Spring

Highlight • Natural Monument

Right at the beginning of the Salamander Valley you come across the Mühlbrünnlein, on the other side of the path is the Mühlweiher. At the Brünnlein there is an idyllic …

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6.79 km