Coal steam light
Coal-Steam-Light is a regional touristic themed route, in particular a cycle route, which deals with the industrial history of the Central German industrial area in the area from Lutherstadt Wittenberg to Markkleeberg near Leipzig. The route leads from Lutherstadt Wittenberg over the Muldestausee , Delitzsch and Leipzig to Markkleeberg and covers about 120 kilometers. A total of 23 stations can be visited via this route, which can be reached by bike or by car.
The cycle route is a project of the tourism association WelterbeRegion Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg e. V. based in Wittenberg, which is supported by the districts of Wittenberg and Anhalt-Bitterfeld, the local communities as well as tourist providers and tourist associations from the region. The association is one of the five regional tourism associations of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The cycle path is also marketed by Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH.
Stations on the “coal-steam-light” route
(Sorting from north to south)
- Piesteritz factory settlement in Lutherstadt Wittenberg
- Vockerode power station industrial monument
- Camping and water sports park Bergwitzsee
- Ferropolis - city made of iron on Lake Gremmin
- Zschornewitz power plant
- Boulder garden and Kneipp playground on Lake Groebern
- Muldestausee with the stations Heide-Camp Schlaitz and Haus am See
- Goitzsche Landscape Park on the Great Goitzschesee
- Wolfen Industry and Film Museum
- Buchdorf Mühlbeck - Friedersdorf
- Bitterfeld water center
- Bitterfeld district museum with amber cellar
- Bitterfeld bow
- Permanent exhibition of lignite mining in the Delitzscher region in Delitzsch
- Nature trail on the Grabschützer See
- Bucket wheel (for bucket wheel excavator ) SR 6300 in Gerbisdorf
- Schladitzer See
- Cospudener See , Markkleeberg
- Störmthaler See with the floating venue Vineta
- Mining Technology Park in Großpösna
- Cape Zwenkau on Lake Zwenkau
- Lippendorf power plant in Böhlen
Remarks
The industrial monument Kraftwerk Vockerode and Industrie- und Filmmuseum Wolfen are not directly on the route and can only be reached by a slightly longer detour. The last four places mentioned are in the vicinity of Markkleeberg. Sometimes the route is only given on the shortened route from Lutherstadt Wittenberg to the Wolfen Industrial and Film Museum.
Web links
- website
- Coal-Steam-Light-Radweg on www.fluss-radwege.de