The Dubringer Moor Tour

This bicycle tour takes you round the last, largest moor landscapes between the Elbe and Oder rivers. You’ll discover the rich plant and animal life in the Dubringer Moor landscape and nature conservation area. The expansive moors, the pond area and the Schwarze Elster floodplain are home to a wide variety of plants and animals, and are filled with the muffled calls of great bitterns and toad and frog choruses, while sea eagles circle overhead. The local flora includes beautiful and rare species like carnivorous sundew, cranberries, and meadows of cotton grass. Well-equipped with binoculars in your rucksack, this cycling trip is guaranteed to be a real natural experience.

Length: 37 kilometres

Start/finish: Hoyerswerda central station, Bahnhofstrasse 1 (coordinates: 51.432976N, 14.013236E)
Circular route via: Groß Neida – Dörgenhausen – Neudorf-Klösterlich – Wittichenau – Dubring – Scheckthal – Zeißholz – Neukollm – Schwarzkollm – Bröthen

Trail conditions: The route is between even and slightly hilly. The route in part covers cycle paths and side roads with very little traffic, including sections on gravel and sand tracks in the Dubringer Moor area that can become soft and can wash away in rainfall. 

Points of interest along the route:

• Castle with Hoyerswerda’s local history museum
• zoo in Hoyerswerda
• chapel and post mill in Dörgenhausen
• viewpoint between Neudorf and Michalken with a view over the lower moor
• church in Wittichenau
• a detour just before Dubring leads through a forested area where it is said that a robber baron’s castle stood in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Information tablets tell the tales of this “lost castle”.
• Zeißholz village museum (detour)
• Krabat-Mühle adventure farm in Schwarzkollm
• Frenzelhaus with a local history parlour in Schwarzkollm

Parking: Hoyerswerda central station, old town

Bicycle rental service: in Hoyerswerda

Maps/Literature:

• “Lausitzer Seenland: Wander- und Radwanderkarte”, 1:50.000, Sachsen Kartographie, Auflage: 11 (März 2019), ISBN 978-3-86843-021-9, Euro 6.50