Goethe hiking trail Ilmenau – Stützerbach

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Goethe hiking trail
Data
length 20 kilometersdep1
location ?
Markers Symbol Goethewanderweg.JPG
Starting point Ilmenau (Am Markt)
50 ° 41 ′ 14.7 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 51.3 ″  E
Target point Stützerbach (Sebastian-Kneipp-Straße)
50 ° 38 ′ 8.9 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 2.2 ″  E
Type Themed hiking trail
Height difference ?dep1
The highest point 861.1  m above sea level NHN ( Kickelhahn )
Lowest point ?
Level of difficulty medium
season Main season
Months April to November and in winter depending on snow conditions
Viewpoints ?
particularities ?

The Goethe hiking trail is a 20 kilometer long hiking trail in the Thuringian Forest , which leads from Ilmenau via Manebach to Stützerbach and connects 17 places of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's work , of which 26 visits to Ilmenau are proven. The Goethe hiking trail is marked with a G in German cursive , Goethe's own abbreviation for his name, and has numerous information boards at all important sites. In 2005, the route was the first hiking trail in Thuringia to receive the "Quality Trail Wanderable Germany" certificate and it was regained.

course

Preliminary remark: Here follows a short version, as it can also be found in the flyers of the "Ilmenau Information" (in the office building). A more complete list of the stations can be found in the publication by C. Erhardt mentioned under 5. (Literature). But z. B. the Goethe fountain on the Ilmenau cemetery (here the 2nd station; see also web link) is missing there .

The Goethe hiking trail begins at the Amtshaus on the market square of Ilmenau ( ⊙ ). Here is a Goethe monument (Ilmenau) of the city on a bench , and the city museum is housed in the office building, which deals with Goethe's work, among other things. During a stay in the office building, Goethe was inspired to parts of the second book by Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years ("Hustle and bustle on the market place").

The next stop is the Ilmenau cemetery ( ⊙ ), where the grave of Corona Schröters , a favorite actress of Goethe and Iphigenie , is located. The relief by the sculptor and Bauhaus student Wilhelm Löber on the Goethe Fountain, built in 1931, dates from the “World Goethe Year” in 1932 . In the time of National Socialism it was covered with boards as degenerate art and thus avoided the destruction that other Bauhaus monuments suffered.

The path continues over the Sturmheide to the Ilmenau mountain trenches, which were once dug to transport water to drive the conveyor wheels of the mines. As part of his work as Mining Minister in Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Goethe dealt with mining in Ilmenau and was supposed to make it more profitable again, which he ultimately failed to do.

The third station is the Schwalbenstein ( ⊙ ), a rock 690  m above sea level on the southeast slope of the Großer Spiegelsberg , which is designated as a natural monument . Here Goethe wrote the 4th act of Iphigenia on Tauris on a single day (March 19, 1779) . Today there is a refuge on this porphyry rock.

The fourth stop is the Schöffenwiese ( ⊙ ), where the Schöffenhaus is today, an inn from the beginning of the 20th century that is on an old trade route ( Alte Straße ) that led across the Thuringian Forest.

Next, the Marienquelle ( ⊙ ) is headed for: The spring on the Bornwiese was named in honor of Maria Piutti (1818–1868), wife of the medical councilor Hermann Piutti (1812–1865), who was the spa director of the cold water sanatorium in for over 25 years Elgersburg led. Thanks to the care of Maria Piutti, the first infant care facility was established. The spring is 736  m above sea level and was captured and inaugurated in 1841. Today's refuge with a resting place was established in 1994.

The path then leads past the Emmastein ( ⊙ ), another rock, to Manebach ( ⊙ ) in the Ilm valley . There is the cantor house, in whose garden Goethe made scientific drawings.

This is followed by the Helenenruhe ( ⊙ ), a meadow above Manebach with a view of the village.

Further up the path leads to the Great Hermannstein ( ⊙ ), a rock in which there is a cave, about which Goethe wrote: "... my beloved stay, where I want to live and stay". Goethe made drawings in this rock cave; A joint visit with Charlotte von Stein is also documented here.

The tenth station is the 861-meter-high Kickelhahn ( ⊙ ) with the Goethe House, where Goethe wrote Wandrer's night song - Ein Gleiches on September 6, 1780 . He scratched the poem on the wall of this shelter, which later burned down. A true-to-original replica is at this point today. The poem is posted there in numerous languages.

This is followed by the Jagdhaus Gabelbach ( ⊙ ), a small hunting lodge from the Baroque period . It was built in 1783 by Duke Carl August and is now home to a museum dedicated to Goethe's scientific studies in the Thuringian Forest.

The path continues over the Hirtenwiese into the Schorte valley , where the Knöpfelstaler pond ( ⊙ ), an old rafting pond, is located.

Not far is the Finstere Loch ( ⊙ ), a waterfall of a Schorte spring stream, which is mentioned in Goethe's poem Ilmenau .

The path continues via the Auerhahn ( gast ) forest inn to Stützerbach, where a Goethe museum is located in Gundelach's house . Goethe stayed here when he was in Stützerbach. This is the end of the Goethe hiking trail.

history

The Goethe hiking trail was created in the 1970s on the initiative of Ilmenauer Goethefreunde together with the Weimar National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature . Its successor, the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar , handed over the path to the city of Ilmenau in the mid-1990s . For the certification achieved in 2005 as a "Quality Trail Wanderable Germany" by the German Hiking Association , extensive work had to be carried out to meet the strict criteria for the design and quality of the trail .

Pictures of the stations

See also

literature

  • Constance Ehrhardt: Regional Guide Ilmenau and the Goethe Hiking Trail: History - Landscape - Tips. Verl. Green heart, Ilmenau 2015. ISBN 3866361483 .

Web links

Commons : Goethewanderweg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board at the source
  2. ^ Heinrich Arnold: On the history of the local association Ilmenau of the Goethe Society in Weimar In: Preparatory Committee Goethestadt Ilmenau `99 (Ed.), Contributions to the Goethe year 1999 in Ilmenau. Editor Jürgen Apel. City administration of Ilmenau, 1999, pp. 17–23. Reproduction annotated and supplemented in: Goethe Society in Weimar, Local Association Ilmenau (Ed.) Promote, Maintain and Preserve - The Goethe tradition in the Ilmenau-Stützerbach region. Editor Wolfgang Müller. Stützerbach 2013.