Holzweißig Forest Car Park – Lake Ludwig loop from Holzweißig
Holzweißig Forest Car Park – Lake Ludwig loop from Holzweißig
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Holzweißig Forest Car Park – Lake Ludwig loop from Holzweißig
02:10
8.51km
30m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 24, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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595 m
Holzweißig Forest Car Park
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831 m
Signpost to Ludwigseeblick and Wächter der Goitzsche
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2.90 km
Rest area with water playground, barefoot path, and sundial
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3.69 km
View of Neuhauser See
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4.91 km
Pine Forest Trail
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5.11 km
Lake Ludwig
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5.46 km
Stream Crossing on Stepping Stones at Ludwigsee
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6.30 km
Goitzsche Time Travel Trail
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It goes on with time. "100,000 years ago, mammoths and woolly rhinos tramped happily through the area," explains Heidrun Heidecke from BUND. When they lived here, they were dealing with a little ice age. Bone finds in the district museum testify to the existence of the animals in the Goitzsche at this time.
60,000 years ago, as can be seen on the next panel, a warm period had begun here. Prehistoric people in loose skins can be seen chasing a huge elephant. Scientific research has shown that scenes like these played out here in the coal region. The famous Gröbern elephant, whose bones were unearthed by miners in the Gröbern opencast mine in 1987, has been reconstructed in the Museum of Prehistory in Halle. Not only his bones can be seen there, the archaeologists also vividly depict the hunting scene.
1,000 years ago, as the path makes clear, permanent settlement of the area began. Many finds of potsherds, vessels and other contemporary witnesses date from this period. Then the story presented runs in shorter periods of time - up to the first discovery and mining of coal, the use of the railway and the associated economic boom in the region. Socialism came and the dismantling norm had to be right. The turning point came and everything changed.
1990 - one still remembers this lunar landscape, the sandy hills, the rugged earth, the dust and the curses of the housewives. Then you reach the last panel. It shows the lake and with it the change that has taken place in the Bitterfeld region. And when you look at the last picture you have towed your bike up into the cultural landscape, can swing back up again and cycle on a dry path to Petersroda - the journey through time is over.
Source: mz.de/local/bitterfeld/35-million-years-on-short-distance-2359729
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8.51 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
5.48 km
1.95 km
1.09 km
Surfaces
3.35 km
2.65 km
1.35 km
1.02 km
146 m
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