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Saynsteig – Traumpfad
04:36
15.6km
440m
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On this dream trail, you will search for traces of the knights and Romans in Sayn. You can also look forward to romantic forest paths and impressive panoramas. Your starting point is Sayn Castle, where the tourist information is also located. From the magnificent castle with its beautiful castle park, you immediately climb up to Sayn Castle: Not only the historic walls invite you to linger, but also a restaurant and the fantastic view.
In the forest, you then go to Oskarhöhe, from where you can look out over the romantic "Alt-Sayn", the Rhine Valley and the Eifel. At Bendorf-Stromberg, you reach the highest point of the circuit, from where you descend into the shady Brexbachtal. There, you hike several times under impressive viaducts of the Brexbachtal. A final climb takes you up to the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site with a reconstructed Roman tower. The nearby Meisenhof then invites you to stop for a rest. You then head back down to Sayn across open fields.
by Rhein Mosel Eifel Touristik
Last updated: October 25, 2024
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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589 m
Sayn Castle
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1.83 km
View of Bendorf-Sayn, the abbey, and the Rhine from Oskarhöhe Shelter
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9.89 km
Brexbach Valley Railway Bridge
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11.7 km
Roman Tower on the Limes Sayn-Bendorf
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15.5 km
Sayn Castle
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15.6 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
8.51 km
5.20 km
1.29 km
472 m
114 m
Surfaces
5.68 km
3.69 km
3.59 km
1.19 km
967 m
444 m
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Trail Reviews
The Saynsteig dream trail, highly recommended. From Sayn Castle 🏰 to Stromberg, not the one from Lafer. 👨🍳🤣 Back through the Brex Valley, wild, romantic, and almost jungle-like. Back in Sayn, another detour to the butterfly garden. 🦋🦋 And you, had a lovely day 😀🍻
We decided to take a day off and hike this dream trail as a couple. Very varied and great to walk. Muddy at km9 along the stream. Otherwise a great hike!! But it's 16.3km instead of the stated 15.3km 😁
A really nice tour, great paths and paths and if it hadn't been like being in a laundry room, you would have had the great views! Nevertheless, a very worthwhile dream path 👍🏼 !!
The dream path Saynsteig offers an exciting castle at the beginning and then a lot of forest for a long time. This is passed on beaten paths and forest roads. This is followed by great passages along a stream and after two climbs you reach the Roman Tower. From here it is almost all downhill back to the castle. Great tour, which is a lot of fun, especially when the weather is good. 🏞🙂🌞
The Saynsteig mostly has beautiful forest sections that are a little reminiscent of the Eifelsteig between Monschau and Einruhr. In the sections over fields and meadows you usually have a wonderful view of the Rhine Valley.
On our way to Germany's oldest wine festival, the Moselfest in Winningen, we headed to Bendorf-Sayn today to hike the Saynsteig, another trail in the Dream Trail collection. From the free hiking parking lot (directly opposite the paid parking lot at the "House of Butterflies"), we set off around 10:15 a.m. on the 200-meter-long access path to the official starting point, right next to Sayn Castle. From there, the hike first climbs (on the same path as the Rheinsteig) to Sayn Castle, descends a few meters in altitude, before then embarking on a 4.5-kilometer climb to the highest point of the loop. This section up to Bendorf-Stromberg was quite unspectacular, running exclusively on forest paths that were often wide and rarely narrow, and made us slightly doubt that we were on a true "Dream Trail." That changed abruptly, however, when we reached the "Nauorter Floss" stream, which soon merged into the Brexbach. Here, in the Brextal valley, the trail suddenly became what we had hoped for, and the dream trail finally lived up to its name. The Brexbach remained in sight until kilometer 12, then we climbed again to the second highest point of the day, the reconstructed "Roman Tower on the Limes," which we already knew from a Rheinsteig stage. From here, it was a relaxed hike along more beautiful and increasingly varied paths until we finally returned to Sayn Castle. A beautiful start to the wine festival weekend, which quickly made us forget the somewhat ordinary opening kilometers :)
Even if the weather wasn't great today, the path definitely was 🙂🙃
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September 24, 2024
On this dream trail, you will search for traces of the knights and Romans in Sayn. You can also look forward to romantic forest paths and impressive panoramas. Your starting point is Sayn Castle, where the tourist information is also located. From the magnificent castle with its beautiful castle park
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