Hike around the Große Teich Torgau

After arriving by train, you first head into the historic old town of Torgau. Special highlights are Hartenfels Castle and St. Mary's Church, where Luther’s wife Katharina is buried. After exploring, you leave the town center via Schloss- and Leipziger Straße heading west, cross the city park and the Schwarzer Graben river, and the B182 road. Via Röhrweg and Thomas-Müntzer-Straße you reach the Große Teich pond. This pond was artificially created as a fish pond by an electoral Saxon decree in 1483/84 and today has an area of about 175 hectares with a depth of 1.5 to 2 meters. Each year in early November, the pond's fishing festival attracts many visitors from near and far. Over 100 bird species find their breeding grounds in the extensive reed belts of the shore zone, which is why the largest pond in Saxony is also an internationally important European bird protection area. For example, the reed warbler, cuckoo, mute swan, and water rail live here. Even water rail, kingfisher, and grey heron feel at home. Turning left, you soon reach the Ellergraben, which accompanies you to Pflückuff. Just before the village is the Biberhof, a station established in 1995 by the Nature Conservation Union, whose staff focus on the active protection of beavers. In Pflückuff, you continue hiking right on the street An der Bahn. Once in the forest area, the hiking trail first leads left and then right at a right angle. Follow the former Torgau-Belgern railway line, which has been developed here as a hiking trail, so you can easily reach the western shore of the Große Teich. Passing Entenfang, Zinnaer Flut, and Röhrgraben, you reach Tunierplatzweg, which you follow to the junction with Thomas-Müntzer-Straße. From here, the hiking route leads back into the city park. In the city park, a path guides you northwards to the station.

Torgau: P2 Straße or Jugend or P4 Pestalozziweg