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Tourist route Lichtenhainer Wasserfall – Prebischtor

The tourist trail is a historical hiking route through Saxon Switzerland . From around 1790 to 1851, the tourist route was the main tourist route in the mountains.

course

From Pillnitz to Liebetal. From Pillnitz the avenue via Oberpoyritz to Graupa , at the royal sheep farm on the right to Liebethal , at the Liebethaler Grundmühle entry into the Liebethaler Grund , following this through the Klemnitzgrund to the village of Liebethal.

From Liebethal to Rathen. From Liebethal above the Grund to Mühlsdorf then via Loch- or Daubemühle to Lohmen . Through Lohmen, then to Uttewalde, descent into the Uttewalder Grund, this down to the friendship stone. Then three variants:

  • (1) From the friendship stone Zscherre- and Höllengrund up to the stone table.
  • (2) From the friendship stone on to Wehlen and over the stone ridge to the stone table. (1) and (2) from Steinernem Tisch on to the Bastei, then descending the Vogeltelle, ascending the Neurathen and descending to Rathen.
  • (3) As (2) to Wehlen, then along the Elbe to Rathen , there ascending and descending via Wehlgrund and Vogeltelle, taking Bastei and Neurathen as a detour.

With the construction of the first (wooden) Bastei bridge in 1826 (WDH p. 116, other sources 1821), (1) and (2) varied from Bastei to the Bastei - Bastei - Neurathen - Rathen line, which is ultimately the main route to this day; Route (3) became insignificant. - With the start of the Elbe steamship trade in 1837, Wehlen increasingly became the starting point for the Fremdweg route. The section from Wehlen to the Freundsstein, the starting point of (1), was then reversed.

From Rathen to Hohnstein. The Grünbachtal over the Amselfall (expansion in 1828) up to Rathewalde , detour to the Hohburkersdorfer Rundblick, the road to Hohnstein over Lindenrundteil (today Hocksteinschänke) down the Wartenbergstraße, further to the Hockstein this (before the construction of the Devil's Bridge in 1821 from below) through the Wolfsschlucht Ascent, descent into the Polenztal , up the old Mühlstraße to Hohnstein .

From Hohnstein to Schandau. The fire road to the fire view , back to the pillar, the forest trench descending into the Tiefen Grund, downstream over the Wendisch ferry to Schandau .

From Schandau to Haidemühle. The Kirnitzschtal up to the Haidemühle. The road through the Kirnitzschtal was only built in 1825; before that, the Kirnitzsch was crossed a dozen times.

From the Haidemühle to the Prebischtor. First to the Lichtenhain waterfall , then on a footbridge crossing the Kirnitzsch ascent via Münzborn to Neuem Wildenstein and Kuhstall . Down the steps, foreign path via Eichenborn to the Kleiner Winterberg . Here two variants, Unterer Fremdweg (with the Gleitmanns prospects) or Oberer Fremdweg almost over the summit of the Kleiner Winterberg. Roßsteig, further (possibly also via the women ferry) to the Great Winterberg . In a southerly direction, descent to Müllerwiesenweg, at the pillar near the Krinitzgrab the so-called Fremdweg over the border to the Prebischtor.

From the Prebischtor to Herrnskretschen. From the Prebischtor (Czech: Pravčická brána) Harzgründel and Bielgrund down to Herrnskretschen (now Czech: Hřensko ). Embarkation on the Elbe.

Königstein and Lilienstein. In Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) a detour to the Königstein Fortress and the Lilienstein .

history

Emergence

The emergence of the tourist route line is very closely linked to the emergence of tourism in Saxon Switzerland. Hartsch dates the beginning of tourism in the Elbe Sandstone to the first half of the last decade of the 18th century.

The tourist route in the 19th and 20th centuries

With the opening of the Dresden – Bodenbach railway line in 1851, the tourist route began to lose importance. With the advent of modern tourism, the lines gradually fell into oblivion.

The foreign route today

Since around 1995, the tourist trail has been experiencing a certain renaissance under names such as Malerweg or Poet-Musician-Painter Path . The Malerweg, which was re-established in 2007 by the Saxon Switzerland Tourist Board, is linked to the tourist route and is now the main hiking route in Saxon Switzerland. However, it partly takes a different route. The section between the cowshed and the Prebischtor still bears the name Fremdweg today.

Knowledge of the wayline

Even if a clear route of the tourist route has never been described or even determined, its classic line can be reconstructed very well from literature, from old maps, from known topographical history and on the basis of today's landscape.

Popular fallacies

A course through the Schwedenlöcher is doubtful; the Geographensteig was only laid here in 1886. The ascent to Hohnstein did not go through the Schindergraben. The fire steps did not yet exist at the time of the tourist route, the first evidence of which is the Odeleben map from 1823. For many years, the Lichtenhain waterfall was really just a waterfall near the Haidemühle. The inn was only built in 1852.

Stay of well-known Swiss travelers

literature

  • J. Brückner, Christian August Günther : Picturesque journey through Saxony or natural beauties of Saxon areas collected on a social journey. Leipzig 1797.
  • Karl August Eberhard, Johann Philipp Veith: Mahleric walks through Saxony. Leipzig 1794.
  • Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger : Schandau and its surroundings or description of the so-called Saxon Switzerland. 2nd edition Beger, Dresden 1812.
  • Erwin Hartsch. Dissertation, TU Dresden, Inst. F. Geography 1964.
  • Matthias Krell: The painter or tourist route, historical route of the developers of Saxon Switzerland. Student thesis, unpublished 1998.
  • Hyssop Lafleur [Christian August Eberhard]: All works or my reign and yours truly romantic trip to the Saxon sandstone mountains on the Elbe. Hall 1798.
  • Carl Heinrich Nicolai: Guide through Saxon Switzerland. Pirna 1801, reprint Hellerau Dresden 1990.
  • Odeleben: Topographical map of the Hohnstein and Schandau area or the most visited part of so-called Saxon Switzerland. Original recording from the years 1823 to 1826 by Otto Freiherr von Odeleben. Scale approx. 1: 23500. Engraved in Dresden by Ferdinand Julius Reyher between 1827 and 1830.
  • Manfred Schober , Peter Rölke: Malerweg hiking guide. In the footsteps of painters, poets and composers through Saxon Switzerland. Rölke, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-934514-19-5 .
  • Richard Vogel : Values ​​of the German Homeland (WDH): Königstein area, Saxon Switzerland. Volume 1. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957.

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