Saalbach Bridge – Memorial plaque to the border area loop from Köditz

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Saalbach Bridge – Memorial plaque to the border area loop from Köditz

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Saalbach Bridge – Memorial plaque to the border area loop from Köditz

03:40

49.8km

770m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 26, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 23.9 km for 53 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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6.92 km

Saale Cycle Path near Saalenstein

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Very nice path along the Saale and the Saaleauen.

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18.9 km

Former Inner German Border at Gästehaus Kuhmühle

Highlight • Historical Site

Until 1989, FRG and GDR were separated here.
The bridge was the limit and no way through.
So close and yet so far😔
Then came the reunification and since then you can go over and over as you want😉

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23.1 km

Schloß Rudolphstein

Castle

23.9 km

Saalbach Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

-Built in 2004-2005
-Until the division of Germany, there was a covered wooden bridge here
-after the turn of 1989-1991 raft operation
-from 1991 - 2003 wooden footbridge
-The inauguration …

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24.0 km

Saalbach Spring (site of the former village Saalbach)

Highlight • Natural Monument

The spring was drilled in 1957 and is said to have an outlet temperature of 18 degrees.

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25.9 km

Dorfteich

Lake

30.0 km

Memorial plaque to the border area

Highlight • Monument

The plaque commemorates the former border of the GDR near Blankenstein.
Here was the 500-meter exclusion zone.
It ran along the Saale, where the middle of the river was the border.

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30.0 km

Feldbahn Blankenberg – Saale Railway Path

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Where the GDR border guards used to patrol, you can now go hiking or biking.
In the summer months there is probably always a train on this route on the weekend or after it has been announced.

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31.6 km

Weir at the Old Blankenberg Paper Mill

Highlight • Structure

Weir of the old Blankenberg paper mill.
The paper mill is now a museum.
Next to it is the standard bridge over which you can cross the Saale.
Also right next door the horse-drawn tram.

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31.7 km

Saale Bridge at the Blankenberg Paper Mill

Highlight • Bridge

Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch introduced mechanical papermaking in Blankenberg in 1843. Parchment paper and printing paper were still produced in this Thuringian town on the Saale River until 1993. Today, you can learn more about that era in a museum.

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