TEAG RENNSThike World Championship 40-km Ahorn-Marsch

The main components of the route, the Rennsteig marked very well with the white "R" up to the Hohe Sonne and from there further along the Lutherweg with the green Fraktur "L" as the trail marking, lead the hiker to the destination and at the same time the capital of Pummpälz, the world championship city Gumpelstadt, which has now been incorporated into the district, garrison, and spa town Bad Salzungen on the Werra. At the beginning of the hike, you say goodbye to the health climate spa Friedrichroda and reach the quaintly situated Bad Tabarz via the Benedictine path. From here it goes steeply up to the most beautiful mountain in Thuringia with its panoramic 360° view with an observation tower. The altitude meters are now conquered, but the supply point for the Brotteröder winter sportsmen at the Brotteröder hut, the Dreiherrnstein, the rock sea of the Klöckner, Große Meilerstätte, the Auerhahn shelter of the Ruhla mountain rescue service, the merging Pummpälzweg up to the Hohe Sonne lead downhill but must first be mastered. At the Hohe Sonne, whose hunting lodge is being saved from final decay by the dukes of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach on private initiative, it goes down into the valley over the Hochwaldgrotte to the park and castle of the dukes, another delicacy in redevelopment. Past the tranquil Alenberger Lake of the Eisenach camping park and the ECP, the hiker strives through oak forests over the Möhrsche Kuppe, past probably the only Buddhist center to Luther's home town, where everything is Luther. The path to the destination leads through the Moorgrund, the bottom of a primeval sea that extended up to the well-known Klöckner at 700 m above sea level as the Ruhla island. Whoever now arrives in the world championship city of Gumpelstadt fortunately does not have to swim, but we better not ask in what condition one feels after the enormous marathon ascent.

Wearing sturdy footwear and suitable weatherproof clothing is recommended.

Each participant must register their mobile phone number before the start and should always be reachable during the hike. Furthermore, carrying a headlamp with sufficient spare batteries is mandatory. In principle, there is a general smoking ban as well as a ban on lighting fires, and dogs must be kept on a leash, which requires a high level of responsibility from dog owners during the time of fawn setting.

You can reach Friedrichroda by the Thuringian Forest Railway trains from Gotha (connection to DB).

Use the German Rail travel portal for travel planning at the following

Link:→ Arrival to Friedrichroda

Return to Friedrichroda: Bus line 844 runs directly back to Friedrichroda (Current timetable information and connection query)

If you have questions, please send an e-mail to wanderweg@pummpaelz.de  

Car park at Friedrichroda sports pool (Google NAV point)

Pummpälzweg e.V.

World Champion City Gumpelstadt

Trift 436433 Bad Salzungen

Tel.: +49 3695 620 580
Fax: +49 3695 85 20 86

Mail: wanderwegpummpaelzde
Web: www.rennsteig-wander-wm.de

Thuringia's most beautiful mountain Großer Inselsberg with 916.5 m above sea level.