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Werra Spring Fehrenbach – Werra Spring Hut loop from Siegmundsburg

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Werra Spring Fehrenbach – Werra Spring Hut loop from Siegmundsburg

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Werra Spring Fehrenbach – Werra Spring Hut loop from Siegmundsburg

05:36

20.8km

240m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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Naturpark Thüringer Wald

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2.52 km

Friedrichshöhe Village and Thuringian Forest Nature Park Center

Highlight • Settlement

The idyllic Friedrichshöhe is located at 800 meters directly on the Rennsteig and at the end of a cul-de-sac. Surrounded by forests, it offers distant views, meadows, a raised moor, …

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5.63 km

Eisfelder Resting Place

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Here you can relax. That's why the place is not called that way. The name goes back to the coachmen who once maneuvered their heavy wagons over the Rennsteig. Here, …

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7.81 km

Werra Spring Fehrenbach

Highlight • River

If you want to visit the Werraquelle, you strangely have two options. There are two Werraquelle in the Thuringian Forest: the rear spring near Siegmundsburg and the front spring here …

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7.83 km

Werra Spring Hut

Highlight • Mountain Hut

The new Gasthaus an der Werraquelle offers more guest comfort than the old version. A nice resting point in the hiking area around the donkey mountain between Masserberg and Fehrenbach. …

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7.99 km

The Tree Monument Near the Source of the Werra

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Small mini swamp landscape with a gnarled tree and quick sayings, right next to the hut.

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9.42 km

Rennsteigwarte Observation Tower on Eselsberg

Highlight • Viewpoint

If you want to have the total Rennsteig overview: Here is your chance! The observation tower "Rennsteigwarte" stands on the donkey mountain and increases it by another 33 meters. 150 …

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9.45 km

Rennsteigwarte on Eselsberg

Highlight • Viewpoint

The view is magnificent - and so is the opportunity (except on Mondays) to have a meal right next door. Everything from roasts, cakes and beer to coffee is available.

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12.0 km

Boundary stone Duchy of Sachsen-Meiningen No. 13

Highlight • Monument

A large number of well-preserved boundary stones mark the former state border between the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen and the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

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20.8 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

12.5 km

6.33 km

1.14 km

615 m

226 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

10.6 km

6.66 km

2.05 km

1.53 km

Elevation

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Highest point (840 m)

Lowest point (750 m)

Weather

Today

Monday 13 July

22°C

14°C

87 %

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Max wind speed: 15.0 km/h

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Comments

January 21, 2022,Auf dem Rennsteig nach Friedrichshöhe 17 km

Lots of forest today and no sun. Clouds and fog cover the trees with thick hoarfrost.

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January 13, 2022,Friedrichshöhe-Turmbaude-Werraquelle☀️💓

Driving towards the sun a bit - hiking from my favorite place Friedrichshöhe - via the Eisfelder Ausspanne-high to the Turmbaude-and a little detour to the Werra source-all in the most beautiful SNOW-and ☀️-so they still exist-🥳🤗 🙏-interesting wafts of fog partly moved over the woods and hid the sun in a mysterious veil and towards evening the sky turned …

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December 26, 2024,Winterwanderung Friedrichshöhe Rennsteigwarte Werraquelle

Finally sun and snow again! From Friedrichshöhe through the (still) snow-covered forest to the Rennsteigwarte, 155 steps towards the sky and then a sensational view over the cloud cover, the Gleichberge peaked out, a dream!
We continued past the Werraquelle (the path was barely recognizable as there were hardly any trees left) and back to Friedrichshöhe

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August 15, 2022,Wanderung zur Werraquelle 💚🥾🌲

Hiked yesterday at the Werra, today in the Masserberger Rennsteig region to the source of the Werra.

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February 15, 2023,Friedrichshöhe-Werraquelle-Turmbaude…

Dream holiday sunny hiking day..☀️☀️☀️💕..mild air-sun pure-birdsong..a day for a foretaste of spring🙃😁🥳..lots of hikers-cross-country skiers on the go -🤔probably had them too all old vacations, like me 😁😁😁.. coffee and cake in the Werraquelle Einkehr, enjoy outside ☀️-again a highlight.. sometimes not easy to hike-because much of the way the ground was frozen or partly very thawed-but that of …

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February 3, 2024,Werra-Burgen-Steig - Etappe 1 - Der Ursprung der Weser liegt im Nebel

Foreword to the hiking project:

So now it begins... one of two absolute lifelong dream projects. Just 18 km separate me from the Weser. Living near the famous Weser breakthrough at Porta Westfalica, I have always been very fascinated by this river. This force with which water makes its way through 2/3 of the Federal Republic of Germany. And what …

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Werra Spring Fehrenbach – Werra Spring Hut loop from Siegmundsburg

Friedrichshöhe Village and Thuringian Forest Nature Park Center

Eisfelder Resting Place

Werra Spring Fehrenbach

Werra Spring Hut

The Tree Monument Near the Source of the Werra

Rennsteigwarte Observation Tower on Eselsberg

Rennsteigwarte on Eselsberg

Boundary stone Duchy of Sachsen-Meiningen No. 13

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