The best running trails around Altmittweida

Behind the inscription stone from 1880, a wooden sign with a „romantic“ poem and the picture of a blackbird rises. But this bird did not give the place its name. Below the bank rock, there was once a ford and a ferry point, where logs were pulled from the river on a rope - from this came „Amsel“ - and loaded onto carts. Next to the rock, the old haulage road can still be recognized. Recently, a covered rest area has invited visitors to linger here. View overgrown, from the rest area you don't see much of the Zschopau. https://www.mittweida.de/fileadmin/Tourismus/Wandern/schweizerwald.pdf

Simply picturesque at sunrise.

The Anna ferry awaits you for a crossing across the Zschopau River for adults, children, and bicycles during the season from April to October. The ferry has a tradition dating back to the mid-19th century. Numerous legends and stories are associated with it. The ferryman will be happy to tell you more during the crossing. The ferry connects the popular hiking trails on the left bank of the Zschopau River (near the Wasserschänke) with the legendary and famous Bruhmsteig trail. This trail, in turn, is lined with numerous relics of silver mining. https://wasserschaenke.de/faehre-anna/

View of the castle from the Zschopau

nice place for a relaxing break

.....(branch of the Robert Koch Institute). (An exhibition was later set up on this era.) After the end of the war, the Sachsenburg served as a place of residence for resettlers before a youth work camp was set up in 1947, which existed until 1967. From 1968, the state-owned Dresden housing construction company was in charge of the castle, which used it as a children's holiday camp and training center.... (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Sachsenburg)

Sachsenburg Castle rises near Frankenberg/Sa. on a rock above the Zschopau. The castle complex, which was built in the early 13th century at the latest, was converted into a palace in the 1480s. The complex is one of the few examples of a completely preserved late Gothic residential palace in Saxony. 19th/20th century Edit After it was given up as an administrative headquarters (1864), a phase of varied uses began. From 1864 onwards, the castle was used as a detention centre for young female prisoners and in 1867 a penal and correctional facility was set up here. The property remained reserved for prisoners only until 1926, although from 1914 onwards these were prisoners of war (Russians, including interned academics and students from the Freiberg Mining Academy, Englishmen, Serbs). From May 1933 it served the NSDAP as a district leadership school for the NS Women's League of Saxony. Towards the end of the Second World War, the castle was used as a bacteriological institute...

an imposing building from the Zschopau is one of the few examples of a completely preserved late Gothic residential castle in Saxony is currently being renovated