- 3:55 h
- 16.38 km
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The approx. 16 km long, flat and easily walkable circular route connects the castle, palace and baroque garden of Zabeltitz with the water and lake landscape of the Röderaue and leads through a charming landscape with alternating forest and open fields and meadows.
The tour starts either at parking lot 2 of the Zabeltitz Baroque Garden or in Frauenhain at the castle pond. It leads through forests with old trees, open land, pastures, fields, ponds and watercourses and connects two cultural landscapes in the district of Meißen, the Röderaue and the Großenhainer Pflege.
The cultural highlight of the tour is the Zabeltitz baroque garden with its castle and palace. Magnificent avenues, hedgerows and the pleasure grove invite you to take a stroll. Artistic sandstone figures set the tone and the splendor of the park is reflected in the water of the unique pond system. The palace, built on the site of the former moated castle, forms a charming ensemble of Baroque and Renaissance architecture with the "Old Castle". The park is one of the largest and most important preserved French-style parks in Saxony. It was created in its present form in 1728 by Johann Christoph Knöffel on behalf of the Imperial Count of Wackerbarth.
The Zabeltitz Farmers' Museum is housed in an old three-sided courtyard built around 1810. With numerous items from the farming past of the villages around Zabeltitz, it shows the life of a middle-class farming family in the Großenhainer Pflege region at the beginning of the 20th century.
St. George's Church in Zabeltitz is also well worth a visit, having been built in 1580/81 to replace the old wooden church dating back to 1495. The sandstone altar and baptismal font are the work of Dresden sculptor Christian Walther II. Imperial Count August Christoph von Wackerbarth is buried in the small village church.
There are numerous other natural and cultural sights along the way, such as the Geißlitz sheep bridge, the Zabeltitz fork weir, the village churches in Görzig and Frauenhain and the various pond landscapes and floodplains.
You can download the leaflet for the hiking favorite "Auwaldtour" here:
https://www.dresden-elbland.de/r/611576097?page=media%2Fdownload
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Directions
The Auwaldtour is a 16.4 km long circular tour and is signposted in both directions with a logo (green swan).
From Frauenhain railroad station you can reach the starting point at the Frauenhain castle pond and from Zabeltitz railroad station to the starting point at the palace/baroque garden parking lot. Along the way, benches invite you to linger and observe.
Description from the starting point at the Palais / Baroque Garden Zabeltitz parking lot:
The tour starts at the parking lot in Zabeltitz to the right in an easterly direction and crosses the grounds of the old castle along the Röder. After leaving the castle grounds, cross the Große Röder and follow a narrow hiking trail along the Röder to the Gabelwehr. After crossing the weir, the route follows the Kleine Röder for a short distance and then turns right onto a forest path to the K 8512 road, onto which we turn left in the direction of Görzig.
There are already 2 shortcut options here:
1. if you turn right, you can go straight back to the parking lot in Zabeltitz.
2. after crossing the Geißlitz, you can also turn left again, follow the cycle path signs and rejoin the original route shortly before Raden, shortening it to 7.5 km.
The original tour leads through the village of Görzig and the Tannenholz towards the Frauenhain pond area. Cross the Geißlitz at the Schafbrücke bridge and follow the route to the left into the forest. If you walk straight ahead here, there is another shortcut of approx. 4 km directly to Raden.
In the forest before the Röderteich pond, turn left and walk around it and the large pond in a clockwise direction. Enjoy the diverse birdlife. The trail leads through the pond area to the castle pond in Frauenhain. From there, the route follows the edge of the forest over 2 bridges to the junction to the left towards Raden. You cross the village on Großenhainer Straße (K 8582) until you take a sharp left turn and go straight on into Röderauwald Zabeltitz. The hiking trail takes you back to the main road (K 8512) at the entrance to Zabeltitz, where you follow the signs to the left to the starting point at the Barockgarten parking lot.
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Loop Road
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Directions & Parking facilities
Via A 13, exit Thiendorf or Ortrand and then continue via the B 98 or B 101
Parking directly at the Zabeltitz Baroque Garden
by train RB31 to Zabeltitz, Bf
by bus 461 to Zabeltitz, Barockgarten
Author
Dresden Elbland Redaktion
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Dresden Elbland
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