Georoute Leisnig "Porphyry - Mulde - old walls"

Starting at the Fischendorf hiking car park, a detour first leads over the footbridge to the large red porphyry wall below Mildenstein Castle. Those arriving by train take the route over the Mulde bridge or the part of Bergstraße running through the valley to the red wall and continue over the footbridge to the hiking car park. From there, the local hiking trail R3 leads over Waldstraße and behind an old factory site to the Riedelsteig on the northern bank of the Freiberger Mulde to Klosterbuch. Here, a visit to the former Cistercian monastery Buch is recommended. After crossing the Mulde bridge, we leave the signposted route and reach the viewpoints Wettinstein and Maylust via the Klostersteig. From there, we follow the Muldental hiking trail Freiberger Mulde (Tannenbergweg) to the fork in the road at Wendishain, keep right and follow the road (K 7540) uphill. Alternatively, immediately opposite the fork, we turn onto the unmarked forest path. At the Paudritzsch nursing home, the path meets the local hiking trail R3 (Muldental hiking trail, K 7540) again. From there, we continue our route to Eichberg. On the Eichgrundweg, developed as a 'nature trail', it leads back to Leisnig. After a few hundred meters on G.-F.-Händel-Straße or on the parallel Bahnhofstraße running below (signposted cycle route) towards the center, we reach Leisnig station. The route back to the hiking car park leads over the Mulde bridge, past the rock plateau with the town and the castle Leisnig. For a detour there, we choose Schlossstraße uphill shortly before the bridge. Alternatively, we reach the red porphyry wall and the footbridge at the starting point via Bergstraße (in the valley next to the railway tracks).

Geopark Porphyrland. Rich in stone in Saxony