Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig
The Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig (also: "Junkerscher Rennsteig", "Westend" or "Rennsteig Ernst des Pious ") is a high-altitude hiking trail in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The length of this branch from the actual Rennsteig is 27 kilometers; this Sallmannshausen Rennsteig overcomes a good 420 meters in altitude . It is part of the long-distance hiking trail from the Großer Inselsberg to the Rhine .
As a result of the border regime of the GDR , the Sallmannshausen Rennsteig was not continuously accessible at the time of the division of Germany; this has only been possible again since 1994.
course
The direction of travel from the Ruhla part of the Rennsteig to Sallmannshausen is described here, because this is the downhill and therefore more comfortable route.
Seen in this way, the Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig begins at the Ruhlaer Häuschen (629 m above sea level) about 2 km southwest of Ruhla . After almost 2.5 km from there, it reaches the Kissel forest house and the nearby source of the Elte . To the southwest of the village of Etterwinds , the route crosses federal highway 19 . In this initial section of the Sallmannshausen Rennsteig, the so-called Pummpälzweg also runs along this route.
After crossing Bundesstraße 19, the route now follows the former border between the former duchies of Saxony-Eisenach and Saxony-Meiningen . Between Kupfersuhl and Eckardtshausen , the delightful high-altitude hiking trail then continues over the Milmesberg , north of Marksuhl, first on the historic "Herrschaftsbrücke", to cross the railway line of the Werrabahn and soon afterwards, between Marksuhl and Förtha , to cross the federal road 84 .
In his last part of the route begins south of Oberellen before - now a short distance of the former trade route Short Hessen following - the former railway line Förtha-Gerstungen cuts to at Lutzenberg in the firecrackers wooded area to reach. After passing through it, the Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig flows into the Werra Valley , where it finally ends after 27 kilometers in the eponymous town of Sallmannshausen (205 m above sea level), a district of Gerstungen .
Labelling
Analogous to the white R of the Rennsteig is the Sallmannsberg houses Rennsteig with a white S labeled.
history
The oldest useful description of the Rennsteig, written by Christian Juncker in 1703 , deviates at its endpoints from the route from the Werra to the Saale that is known today . After Juncker, the Rennsteig did not continue on the ridge of the Thuringian Forest to the Werra, but instead left it from the crossroads " Ruhlaer Häuschen " in a westerly direction, the course of the ridge between the Elte and Suhl waters to the " Lutzenloch " near Marksuhl. It was not until the geographer Julius von Plänckner recognized that the Rennsteig of the Thuringian Forest mainly follows the course of its ridge and accordingly defined the north-western end point at Hörschel on the Werra.
At the beginning of the 1890s, the founders of the Rennsteigverein explored the course of the path described from Juncker to Marksuhl and looked for the likely further course from Marksuhl to the Werra. In this way they got to Sallmannshausen.
In 1895 the path was first marked , initially with the letters VR for Vorderer Rennsteig .
With the division of Germany after the Second World War , Sallmannshausen and thus the end point of the Sallmannshausen Rennsteig was in the restricted area of the GDR along the inner-German border . The Böller forest area became a military training area and the Sallmannshausen Rennsteig near Lutzberg was interrupted by the Förtha – Gerstungen railway line . The path was forgotten and was only redeveloped after the fall of the 1990s.
A thorough repair and new signage was carried out in 2018 by the Wartburg Region Municipal Working Group under the leadership of the Gerstungen municipality , in whose municipality the path mostly runs.
Web links
- The Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig on the homepage of the Rennsteigverein
- History on thueringen.info
- History on openstreetmap.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Sallmannshäuser Rennsteig inaugurated" in: Südthüringer Zeitung of September 27, 2018, Local, page 11