Hohes Fichtelgebirge - Hiking Tours

round trip along the sources 

3 hours
Fleckl  (800 m) via the well "Fürstenbrunnen" – the mountain "Ochsenkopf" (1024 m) (E) – the source "Weißmainquelle" (929 m) – the rock "Weißmainfelsen"  – the source "Fichtelnaabquelle" (867 m) – Fleckl  – Moorbad (natural mud-bath)

"Fleckl - Fichtelberg - hiking tour" 

 

 4 hours 

Fleckl - along the trail "Bocksgrabenweg" to Fichtelberg (684) - via the well "Moosknockbrunnen" to Neugrün (E) - Wendelin Wagenthal (690m) - Mausbachtal - Geiersberg - Fleckl 
hiking tour: Fleckl - Warmensteinach 3 to 4 hours
Fleckl (800m) - Geiersberg ( 746m) - Helle Glocke über Höllfelsen (rock)- the valley "Löchleinstal" Warmensteinach - Gustavsruh - the gorge "Trümmerschlucht" (730m) - Grassemann (E) - Moorbad (natural mud-bath) - Fleckl 
B: Moorbad Fleckl (natural mud-bath), farmhouse museum "Grassemann"

 

Luisenburg - rock labyrinth - the mountain "Kösseine"

4 hours

Luisenburg - parking place (640m) - hike through the rock labyrinth - the mountain "Burgsteinfelsen" (879m) - the mountain "Püttnerfelsen" - mountain hut "Kösseinehaus" (939m) (E) - the mountain "Haberstein" (848m)  - 
Luisenburg

Hohe Matze - hiking tour 

3 hours

parking place "Silberhaus" - the mountain "Prinzenfelsen" (751m) - the mountain "Hohe Matze" (813m)
Wurmloh (652m) - lake "Nagler See" (593m) (E)- the grotto "Girgelhöhle"  ( 719m) - Silberhaus 
B: Girglhöhle

a hike to old granite quarries and black moor ponds

15 km
Vordorfermühle – Fuchsbau – Zinnschützweiher – Seehaus (E) - Nußhardt – Röslaquelle (source)– Vordorf 

B: rock formations on the mountain "Nußhardt", granite quarry "Fuchsbau" uranium minerals
 Rudolfstein 4 hours

bus stop Karches (740m) at the main road 
"B 303" - via the road "Buchwaldstraße" to the mountain "Schneeberg" - via Reitschule, 3 Brüder-Felsen - Rudolfstein (866m) - Weißenstadt (600m) (E) - ALT back

B: Schwestern- und Brüdersteine am Rudolfstein, Backöfele

 

 the former  tin-mining area near Vordorf

8 km

hikers' parking place Vordorfermühle/Tröstau - Wolfstein (754 m) - Steinbruch Fuchsbau(quarry) - Zinnschützweiher - Schmierofenhütte –Lungenweiher - Röslabach - Vordorfermühle (E)

 

to the roof of Franconia

4 hours 

start at the Fichtelsee (750m) bus stop – Platte (884m) – Seehaus (953m)(E)  – Nußhardt  (972 m) – Schneeberg (1053 m) - Höhenklinik Bischofsgrün  (700m) bus stop

B: Platte, Nußhardtstube, Backöfele am Schneeberg

 

historic hiking tours along the sources 100 years ago

20 km

with ALT to Weißenstadt  – Saalequelle (source) - Egerquelle (source)  – Kaltes Buch – alte Egerquelle (source)– Schneeberg  – Karches (E) – Weißmainquelle – Weißmainfelsen – Naabquelle  – Fleckl 

B: a hiking tour of the royal classical secondary school "Hof" 100 years ago, to the four sources of the Fichtelgebirge

Abbreviations 

E a rest with a stop at an inn
B sightseeings / characteristic features
ALT Anruf-Linien-Taxi (taxi)