Nordic walking route Black - Ilmenau

The starting and ending point for the Nordic walking routes is the hiking parking lot at the Festhalle Ilmenau. Here you can use the free parking available on site. Information boards with hiking maps and three Nordic walking routes inform about the respective course of the hiking trails.

The black route leads from the Festhalle through the city park to the end of Goethe Alley. Passing the Preller Linden Tree, it goes over the Preller Promenade to the Ritzebühler Pond. Over the Hertzer Promenade past the summer toboggan run "Wolfram Fiedler" with toboggan hut, it continues on the new path to Fitzler's Spring at the old bobsleigh track. From there, it goes uphill to the Bobsleigh Hut (restaurant). A newly built observation tower offers a magnificent view over Ilmenau and far into the region.

Our path leads past the Harz Brothers Hut, the Schwarzbrunnskopf, the Crooked Way to Waldstraße and to the WPP Herzogröder Meadow. Information boards provide details about additional waypoints. The next object on the route is also the Gabelbach Hunting Lodge with Museum. Goethe's work in and around Ilmenau is presented here in a small museum.
On the Goethe hiking trail, it goes to the Kickelhahn (Tower) and the Goethe Cottage (both landmarks of Ilmenau), where J.W. Goethe's immortal verses "Over all the hilltops is peace..." were created. We stay on the Goethe hiking trail and reach the Great Hermannstein with Cave. From the viewing platform, there is a wonderful view of Manebach and the mountains of the Thuringian Forest. The return route goes via Beckertsgrund to the Döllstädtweg through the city park back to the starting point of the route.