Fifth Stage “Lower Lusatian Mining Tour”: Cottbus - Forst (Lausitz)
Length: 68 kilometres
Start: Cottbus
Finish: Forst (L.)
Logo/route sign: The route logo is the red record devil.
Arrival: Take the RE2 (Cottbus) from Berlin central station to Cottbus (approximately 1.5 hours).
Departure: From Forst take the regional train RB46 to Cottbus. From here, continue on the RE2 (rapid transit train) (Wittenberge) to Berlin central station (about 2 hours).
Route: Cottbus, Wilmersdorf, Maust, Neuendorf, Bärenbrück, Heinersbrück, Kolonie Pipanojce, Drewitz, Kerkwitz, Taubendorf, Albertinenaue, Briesnig, Forst (L.)
Please note that the route is currently being revised. A revised route will be available for the 2024 season.
Points of interest/background information:
- Cottbus: Art museum, diesel power station, Fürst-Pueckler Park in Branitz (detour), historic centre, state theatre
- Peitz (detour): Ironworks museum, fortress tower, pond landscape
- Bärenbrück: Teichland adventure park with exhibition and observation tower
- Heinersbrück: Viewpoint, Jänschwalde surface mining
- Jänschwalde: Power station, Wendish-German local history museum
- Grießen: Technical monument, hydroelectric power station, church
- “Kulturkirche” Sacro
- Forst (L.): Archive of disappeared places, Brandenburg textile museum, East German rose garden
- Prince Pueckler Cycle Path
- Oder-Neiße Cycle Path
- Guben Lake Tour
- Tour Brandenburg
- Spree Cycle Path
- Gherkin Cycle Path
mostly asphalted cycle paths and cycle roads, some sections also on side roads, unpaved paths or paved roads, some root break-ups, few gradients
Maps/Literature: “ADFC-Regionalkarte Niederlausitz mit Tagestouren-Vorschlägen. Mit kompletter Niederlausitzer Bergbautour und Fürst-Pückler-Radweg”, 1:75.000, Bielefelder Verlag, Auflage: 1 (1. April 2009), ISBN-13: 978-3870734664, Euro 6.80
Tour start
Puschlinpromenade03042 Cottbus
Tour end
Mulknitzer Straße03149 Neu Sacro
Contact address
Am Stadthafen 201968 Senftenberg
Contact details
Contact: Tourismusverband Lausitzer Seenland e.V.Telephone: 03573-7253000
Fax: 03573-7253009
Email: info@lausitzerseenland.de
Website: www.lausitzerseenland.de
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