International mountain hiking trail of friendship Eisenach – Budapest
| International mountain hiking trail of friendship Eisenach – Budapest | |
|---|---|
| Data | |
| length | 2 690 km |
| location | Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary |
| Markers |
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| Starting point |
Wartburg , Eisenach , Thuringia , Germany 50 ° 58 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 23.7 ″ E |
| Target point |
Budapest , Hungary 47 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 19 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Type | Long-distance hiking trail |
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The International Mountain Hiking Trail of Friendship Eisenach – Budapest (short EB-Weg ) is a long-distance hiking trail that leads through Germany , the Czech Republic , Poland , Slovakia and Hungary . It is 2690 kilometers long.
The starting point of the mountain hiking trail is the Wartburg in Eisenach . The section from the Hohe Sonne to Neuhaus am Rennweg runs on the Rennsteig . The route continues over the Thuringian Slate Mountains , Vogtland , Ore Mountains , Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland , Lusatian Mountains , Jeschken Mountains , Jizera Mountains , Bober-Katzbach Mountains , Glatzer Schneegebirge , Jeseníky Mountains , Beskids , Mala Fatra , Mátra and Bükk to Budapest .
history
In May 1980 the XIV International Tourist Meeting of Friendship took place in Eisenach and Wilhelmsthal with the participation of large delegations from Czechoslovakia and the People's Republic of Poland . The Kulturbund der DDR , Fachgruppe Wander und Touristik, organized the event, with the idea of creating a long-distance hiking trail within the socialist community of states. Initially it was even planned to extend the trail to the Black Sea in order to include Romania and Bulgaria .
On May 28, 1983, the mountain hiking trail was opened in Eisenach with a ceremony at the Wartburg . After a speech by Kulturbund officials and the director of the Wartburg, the first stage to the Großer Inselsberg was “hiked” together. Numerous foreign hikers from the Czech Československý svaz tělesné výchovy (ČSTV), the Polish Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze (PTTK) and the Hungarian Magyar Természetbarát Szövetség (MTSZ) also took part in this premiere . In October 1983 the Hungarian section was opened in Budapest, which is also the eastern part of the national long-distance hiking trail Országos Kéktúra .
Until 1989, the Mountain Hiking Trail of Friendship was the only cross-border long-distance hiking trail in the former socialist states of the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Only in Bulgaria was a similar project implemented with the Kom-Emine mountain hiking trail , which for political reasons did not find a connection to the neighboring countries.
The Erfurt hiker Wolfgang Buchenau was the first to master the entire route in the summer of 1987 - and even to do so continuously without interruption. It took him 74 days.
After the removal of the Iron Curtain , most of the EB trail was integrated into the European long-distance hiking trail E3 . (The E8 runs on a smaller section in Slovakia , and the Hungarian part is part of the E4 .) Today, the EB path is part and supplement of the E3, although it has retained its own route in Thuringia and Saxony. As a result, it is still very well known in Germany, while the EB logo towards the east has largely been replaced by the E3 logo.
literature
- Martin Simon: International mountain hiking trail Eisenach – Budapest: ... through Thuringia . Eisenach-Budapest.de, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821978-1-4 . (Detailed route description, sights, general information. Previous edition including overnight accommodation: Eisenach - Budapest. The way through Thuringia . Fernwege.de, Roxheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-937304-98-4 . )
- Martin Simon: Eisenach - Budapest. The way in the Ore and Elbe Sandstone Mountains . Conrad Stein Verlag, Welver 2014, ISBN 978-3-86686-467-2 . (Detailed description of the route, sights, places to stay)
- Martin Simon, Martin Raschke: International mountain hiking trail Eisenach – Budapest: ... through the Sudetes . Eisenach-Budapest.de, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821978-2-1 . (Detailed route description, sights, general information. Earlier edition including overnight accommodation: Martin Simon: European long-distance hiking trail E3 through the Sudetes . Fernwege.de, Roxheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-937304-74-8 . )
- Martin Simon, Martin Raschke, Mirko Nagel: International Mountain Hiking Trail Eisenach – Budapest: ... through the Beskids . Eisenach-Budapest.de, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821978-3-8 . (Detailed route description, sights, general information. Earlier edition including overnight accommodation: Martin Simon: European long-distance hiking trail E3 through the Beskids . Fernwege.de, Roxheim 2008, ISBN 3-937304-92-4 . )
- Martin Simon: International Mountain Hiking Trail Eisenach – Budapest: ... Polish Beskids . Eisenach-Budapest.de, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821978-4-5 . (Detailed route description, sights, general information. Earlier edition including overnight accommodation: Eisenach - Budapest. The way in the Polish Beskids . Fernwege.de, Roxheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-941366-16-9 . )
- Martin Simon: International mountain hiking trail Eisenach – Budapest: Slovakia / Hungary . Eisenach-Budapest.de, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821978-5-2 . (Detailed route description, sights, general information. Earlier edition including overnight accommodation: Eisenach - Budapest. The way in Slovakia and Hungary . Fernwege.de, Roxheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-941366-20-6 . )
- Martin Simon: E4: Eisenach - Budapest, from Putnok to Budapest . Conrad Stein Verlag, Welver 2014, ISBN 978-3-86686-468-9 . (Detailed route description, sights, overnight accommodation.)
- Dieter Biladt: From the Wartburg to Budapest. A hike through a piece of Central Europe . epubli, Berlin 2009 ( epubli.de ). (Detailed travel description with a compilation of all mountains and peaks in the appendix; 172 pages S / W.)
- Ifjúsági és Sportminisztérium (ed.): Az Országos Kéktúra. Budapest-Hűvösvölgytöl Hollóházáig . Cartographia Kft., Budapest 2001, ISBN 963-352-536-5 . (Maps of the Hungarian section on a scale of 1: 40,000, directions and overnight accommodation in Hungarian.)
- Friends of EB eV (ed.): 25 years of the International Mountain Hiking Trail of Friendship Eisenach – Budapest 1983–2008 . Friends of EB eV, Eisenach 2008.
Web links
- OpenStreetMap map
- Bert Winkler's homepage : elevation profile of the German section, list of checkpoints, required hiking maps, GPS data, etc. Ä.
- Homepage of Mirko Nagel : List of checkpoints, detailed description of the hiking trail, GPS data, specific country information and a hiking forum, extended new editions of Martin Simon's hiking guides
- Information at Fernwege.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Weigel: The mountain hiking trail of friendship . An international hiking trail and its first stages (Eisenach to Inselsberg). In: The people . Erfurt April 1983.
- ^ Fritz Galle: The International Mountain Hiking Trail of Friendship Eisenach-Budapest. A year ago it opened in Eisenach . In: Stadtverwaltung Eisenach (Ed.): EISENACH-information . Issue 5/84. Eisenach 1984, p. 5-7 .
- ↑ Gerhard Müller: Single-handedly to the Danube . The Erfurt Dr. Wolfgang Buchenau hiked over 2,700 kilometers from Eisenach to Budapest in 74 days. In: The people . Erfurt November 23, 1987, p. 5 .