Half-timbered house cycle path

Upper Lusatian half-timbered houses cycle route
overall length	approx. 115 km
location	Upper Lusatia with Lusatian Bergland , Zittau Mountains
Starting point	Rodewitz / Spree ; 51 ° 6 ′ 15.8 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 55.7 ″ E
Target point	Zittau ; 50 ° 54 ′ 13.3 " N , 14 ° 48 ′ 25.9" E
Places along the way	Löbau; Obercunnersdorf; Kottmarsdorf; Neugersdorf; Seifhennersdorf; Eibau; Oderwitz; Großschönau; Jonsdorf; Bertsdorf-Hörnitz;
Height difference	from approx. 325 m above sea level NN up to 242 m above sea level NN , ; vertical meters uphill approx. 1500 m ; downhill approx. 1600 m
Connection to	Spreeradweg; Oder-Neisse cycle path (D12); Mittelland route (D4); Saxon low mountain range route; Rübezahlradweg;

Map with all coordinates of the places from the starting point : OSM | WikiMap

The Umbindehaus-Radweg is a long- distance cycle path of around 115 kilometers in Germany , more precisely in the southern Upper Lusatia in Southeast Saxony. It leads through a landscape characterized by half - timbered houses from Neukirch / Lausitz over the Lausitzer Bergland and Zittau Mountains to Zittau .

Yellow plaques with the imprint "Holiday landscape of the half-timbered houses" lead along the cycle path, which mostly uses developed roads. The half-timbered house cycle path runs between Neusalza-Spremberg and Großschönau for almost 60 km, mainly on roads with little traffic and thus on asphalt. But also sections with forest and meadow paths and different surfaces dominate the entire cycle path and are easy to drive on.

Due to the inclines and the overcoming of hills, the bike path is of medium difficulty, but also suitable for children. The biggest differences in altitude are to be overcome at the beginning (around Weifa) and at the end (around Jonsdorf) of the bike route.

Worth seeing

Neukirch: local history museum, pottery, hand and linen weaving

Weifa: local history museum

Schirgiswalde: Catholic parish church ( Bohemian Baroque , mid-18th century), picturesque arbor houses on the market, “Carl Svoboda” local history museum, gondola pond

Sohland: forest stage, nature trail

Taubenheim: 25 sundials on mostly historical half-timbered houses

Neusalza-Spremberg: " Reiterhaus " museum (around 1600, one of the oldest Upper Lusatian half-timbered houses), forest and adventure pool

Ebersbach: baroque parish church, Spreeborn

Walddorf: Kottmar with Spree spring and legend path, hut, tower and ski jump

Obercunnersdorf: monument site with a large number of half-timbered houses, church, home parlor , » Schunkelhaus «

Herrnhut: place of origin and center of the Moravian Brethren , ethnological museum , local history museum, God's field, numerous buildings from the founding period (18th century)

Oderwitz: toboggan run, 3 post windmills

Eibau: Faktorhof ; Beckenberg with hut and museum

Hainewalde: baroque village church , Kanitz-Kyawsche crypt chapel (1715)

Großschönau: German Damask and Terry Toweling , motorcycle veterans and Technology Museum , Family Park "Trixi"

Waltersdorf: Folklore and mill museum, village church with a unique Tamitius organ, “Oberlausitzer Souvenir” workshop, manufacture - production of the finest miniature figures made of pewter, monument and nature trail, Lauschemoor

Jonsdorf health resort: weaver's parlor, forest stage, nature trail through millstone quarries, leisure and ice sports center, aviary, health resort park, butterfly house

Olbersdorf: Leisure oasis Olbersdorfer See and Westpark-Center

Zittau: City Museum (in the former Franciscan monastery ), historic city center, Large Zittau Lenten Cloth (in the Church of the Holy Cross ), zoo, narrow-gauge railway Zittau – Jonsdorf – Oybin

Individual evidence

↑ Magimaps bike and inline tours. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .

Web links

http://www.oberlausitz.com/ferien/aktiv/radwandern.htm PDF brochure "Cycling in the Lausitz"

[1] Magimaps bike and inline tours. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .