Bakunin Hut – Grenzbuche Junction loop from Meiningen
Bakunin Hut – Grenzbuche Junction loop from Meiningen
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Bakunin Hut – Grenzbuche Junction loop from Meiningen
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6.77km
110m
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Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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483 m
Ringweg Meiningen
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Here, the first ascent is rewarded with a great view of Meiningen, before continuing towards Dreianzigacker.
After you have passed the place, the path leads past wide fields back towards Meiningen.
After a few kilometers you will reach the Diezhäuschen, a popular vantage point above the castle.
Past the Schaubachhütte it goes along allotments over the donkey bridge back into the city.
After a walk through the district of Helba, the ascent leads up to the Drachenberg and reaches the Friedenseichen viewpoint.
Here a memorial stone commemorates the arrival of the Russian tsar in Meiningen in 1813.
It continues on wide paths in the east of Meiningen.
Here you have another chance to take a look over the city before heading back.
After crossing the Werra you will reach the starting point of the tour again.
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1.53 km
Webersbrunnen
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3.89 km
Bakunin Hut
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Its special features lie on the one hand in the world of ideas of the families involved in the construction: so-called anarcho-syndicalism is an anarchist trade union movement with worldwide influence.
On the other hand, the place impresses with the idyllic landscape surrounding it in a forest clearing with a wide view.
Committed to the idea of "mutual aid", a small area of land was acquired and cultivated jointly and the proceeds were divided in solidarity among the families involved.
In this way, a solution organized "from below" was found on a small scale for the existentially threatening supply bottlenecks after the First World War.
Later, the skilled industrial workers built a shelter on their property, which they named after the Russian-born revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin.
They had all the skills to build buildings and unusual play equipment - such as a swing carousel - on their own.
Eventually, a holiday and training center for the anarcho-syndicalist movement developed here, until it fell victim to National Socialism and could not be revived even under the rule of the authoritarian socialists.
If you walk from Meiningen to the Bakunin Hut, you can follow in the footsteps of the anarchist poet Erich Mühsam, who stayed there several times to give lectures on political topics.
It takes just under an hour to walk uphill, sometimes steeply, through dense forest.
The route from the train station via Berliner Strasse, the cemetery and the Donopskuppe ruins is recommended.
Once you have climbed the necessary altitude, you can take the old hut path past the Cotta Hut to the Hohe Maas, the highest elevation in this region.
Just a few metres further on, the forest thins out and you find yourself on a large, species-rich meadow, in the middle of which, hidden between a few tall trees and bushes, lies the Bakunin Hut.
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Grenzbuche Junction
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4.74 km
Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) in the Thuringian Forest
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The only species native to Central Europe is the Norway spruce (Picea abies), which is also incorrectly referred to as "red fir" due to its scaly, red-brown bark.
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Meininger Muschelkalk Area Nature Trail Information Board
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4.95 km
Cotta Hut
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Bismarck fir
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End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
5.53 km
930 m
235 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
2.41 km
2.22 km
1.83 km
293 m
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Lowest point (430 m)
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