Through the Lusatian Mountains

23.59 km long
Round trip
Difficulty: medium
Condition: easy
Cycling
  • 3:00 h
  • 23.59 km
  • 290 m
  • 291 m
  • 356 m
  • 524 m
  • 168 m
  • Start: Jonsdorf (municipal office)
  • Destination: Jonsdorf
There are mountains that you conquer and mountains that soothe you. The Lusatian Mountains soothe, as everything there is close to human scale. If it were not called the Lusatian Mountains, it would have been called the Picturesque Mountains... everywhere there is peace, and the enchanted hiker stands there alone, face to face with crystal-clear beauty. (Rostislav Křivánek)

It is a mountain range that impresses, and a mountain range that moves you. The Lusatian Mountains are moving because they have a human dimension. Its highest peaks are not even 800 meters above sea level, and yet it is a mountain range with everything that comes with it. It is the perfect combination of the surrounding landscape forms - from the Bohemian Switzerland it has adopted sandstone formations and rock cities, from the Bohemian Central Mountains the volcanic character and the cone-shaped mountains rising from the forested hills, from the Jizera Mountains the elongated mountain ridges... It combines all this into a unique whole where the soul comes alive and the eyes enjoy gliding over the rolling relief. If it were not called the Lusatian Mountains, it would be called the Picturesque Mountains.

ATTRACTIONS: Nature trail through the millstone quarries and mountain spa Jonsdorf, narrow-gauge railway Zittau Mountains

Good to know

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

ROUTE: Jonsdorf (municipal office) - (border crossing D/CZ) Valy Krompach - Hermanice - Marenice - Travnik - Nadeje - Hamr (detour to Lausche reservoir) Juliovka - Krompach - Valy - (border crossing CZ/D) Jonsdorf

Tour information

  • Loop Road

Directions & Parking facilities

A4 to Bautzen - B96 via Oppach to Oderwitz, then country road to Jonsdorf

A4 to Bautzen East - B6 to Löbau, B178 to Herrnhut to Zittau, country road to Jonsdorf

from Dresden direction - via B6 to Bischofswerda, B98 to Oppach, B96 to Oderwitz, country road to Jonsdorf

A4 to Görlitz - B99 via Ostritz to Zittau, country road to Jonsdorf

Parking lot: Großschönauer Str. 43, 02796 Jonsdorf

by train

to Zittau station Departure and arrival times see Deutsche Bahn

by the little train Departure and arrival times see SOEG

by bus

Line 5 (Zittau-Olbersdorf-Kurort Jonsdorf) Departure and arrival times see KVG

Additional information

Author

Tourismuszentrum Naturpark Zittauer Gebirge

Organization

Das Landschaftswunderland Oberlausitz

License (master data)

Tourismuszentrum Naturpark Zittauer Gebirge
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Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Carry passport or ID card

Safety guidelines

mostly paved side roads and forest paths, hilly to mountainous terrain, low traffic

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Contact

Through the Lusatian Mountains
02796 Jonsdorf