Upper Lusatia-Elbe cycle path combo

Worth seeing

Umgebindehaus cycle path:

• Neukirch: local museum, potteries, hand and linen weaving mill

• Weifa: local history museum

• Schirgiswalde: Catholic parish church (Bohemian Baroque, mid-18th century), picturesque arcaded houses on the market square, "Carl Svoboda" museum of local history, gondola pond

• Sohland: forest stage, nature trail

• Taubenheim: 17 sundials on historic half-timbered houses

• Neusalza-Spremberg: "Reiterhaus" museum, around 1600, one of the oldest Upper Lusatian half-timbered houses, forest and adventure pool

• Ebersbach: baroque parish church, Spreeborn

• Walddorf: Kottmar with Spree spring and legend trail, Baude, tower and ski jump

• Obercunnersdorf: heritage site with a large number of half-timbered houses, church, museum of local history, "Schunkelhaus"

• Herrnhut: place of origin and center of the Herrnhut Brethren community, ethnological museum, local history museum, churchyard, numerous buildings from the founding period (18th century)

• Oderwitz: toboggan run, 3 trestle windmills

• Eibau: Faktorenhof; Beckenberg with Baude and museum

• Hainewalde: baroque village church, Kanitz-Kyausche crypt chapel (1715)

• Großschönau: German damask and terry museum, veteran motorcycle and technology museum, "Trixi" family park

• Waltersdorf: Folklore and mill museum, village church with unique Tamitius organ, show workshop "Oberlausitzer Souvenir", manufactory - production of the finest miniature figures made of tin, monument and nature trail, Lauschemoor

• Spa town of Jonsdorf: weaving room, forest stage, nature trail through millstone quarries, leisure and ice sports center, aviary, spa gardens, butterfly house

• Olbersdorf: Olbersdorfer See leisure oasis and Westpark-Center

• Zittau: municipal museum (in the former Franciscan monastery), historic town center, large Zittau Lenten cloth (in the Church of the Holy Cross), zoo, narrow-gauge railroad Zittau-Jonsdorf-Oybin

Oder-Neisse cycle path

• Zittau: historic old town, Great Zittau Lenten Shroud, cultural history museum, Franciscan monastery, zoo, Zittau narrow-gauge railway

• Hirschfelde: technical monument and Hirschfelde power station

• Ostritz: Cistercian abbey of St. Marienthal

• Görlitz: Town hall steps with Justitia, Holy Sepulchre, St. Peter's Church with sun organ, town hall, municipal collections, natural history museum, nature conservation zoo, Silesian Museum (in the oldest bourgeois Renaissance building in Germany)

• Zentendorf: Einsiedel cultural island

• Rothenburg: City park, Aviation Museum

• Sagar: Museum of crafts and trades

• Kromlau: Rhododendron Park

• Bad Muskau: Prince Pückler Park, Muskau Arch Geopark

Saxon city route

• Hermsdorf: Castle and park

• Seifersdorf: Seifersdorf Valley

• Häslich: Museum Vierseitenhof

• Schwosdorf: Whale and desert mountain house

• Kamenz: Hutberg with Lessing Tower, Museum of West Lusatia, Museum of Sacred Art, Lessing Museum

• Deutschbaselitz: Deutschbaselitz large pond

• Nebelschütz: baroque village church (1740-43)

• Panschwitz-Kuckau: Cistercian monastery of St. Marienstern (founded in 1248), monastery church with valuable furnishings from the Middle Ages to Baroque, monastery garden, treasury

• Kleinwelka: dinosaur park with numerous life-size dinosaur sculptures, large maze, miniature park

• Bautzen: Capital of the Sorbs and city of towers, historic city center (medieval to baroque) with medieval fortifications, Alte Wasserkunst, late Gothic St. Petri Cathedral, cathedral treasury, Ortenburg Castle with Sorbian Museum, city museum, Bautzen memorial site

• Löbau: town museum, Schminke House, Löbauer Berg with cast-iron observation tower (Friedrich August Tower, 1854)

• Görlitz: town hall steps with Justitia, Holy Sepulchre, St. Peter's Church with sun organ, town hall, municipal collections, natural history museum, nature conservation zoo, Silesian Museum (in the oldest bourgeois Renaissance building in Germany)

Spree cycle path

• Eibau: Faktorenhof, Humboldt Museum

• Neugersdorf: Baroque church, Bismarck tower (observation tower)

• Ebersbach: half-timbered houses, baroque parish church, plant garden

• Neusalza-Spremberg: riding school with museum (half-timbered house from around 1600)

• Sohland: Reservoir, "Bruno-H.-Bürgel" observatory, local history museum, forest stage

• Kirschau: Local history museum, castle ruins, Körsetherme spa

• Bautzen: Capital of the Sorbs and city of towers, historic city center (medieval to baroque) with medieval fortifications, old waterworks, late Gothic St. Petri Cathedral, cathedral treasury, Ortenburg Castle with Sorbian Museum, city museum, Bautzen Memorial

• Kleinwelka: dinosaur park with numerous life-size dinosaur sculptures, large maze, miniature park

• Boxberg: Ohr landscape garden with amphitheater

• Nochten: Erratic boulder park

• Sprey: Schrotholz church

• Schwarze Pumpe: Schwarze Pumpe power station with multimedia visitor center

• Spremberg: historic old town, castle with Niederlausitzer Heidemuseum, Kreuzkirche, Bismarck Tower, center stone, outdoor adventure pool, dam

• Cottbus: museums, Spreeauenpark, zoo, Fürst-Pückler-Park Branitz

• Burg: adventure train station (historic carriage park), information center of the biosphere reserve, medicinal and aromatic plant garden, maze and beaver farm

• Lübbenau: Spreewald Museum, "Spreewelten Sauna and Bathing Paradise Lübbenau"

• Lehde: farmhouse and gherkin museum

• Lübben: castle, Ständehaus, Paul-Gerhard church, St. Pankratius (13th century)

• Beeskow: Old town, town wall with defense towers, Fischerkietz

• Fürstenwalde: St. Mary's Cathedral (15th century), town wall with bull tower, local history museum, municipal gallery in the old town hall, native animal garden

• Erkner: Gerhart Hauptmann Museum, local history museum

Rübezahl cycle path

• Bad Schandau: National Park House, Kirnitzschtalbahn, passenger elevator, Toskana Therme, plant garden, town museum

• Hinterhermsdorf: Kirnitzschklamm gorge, half-timbered houses, forest hut, forest workers' parlor museum

• Krásná Lípa: Church of St. Mary Magdalene, museum

• Waltersdorf: Folklore and mill museum, village church with unique Tamitius organ, show workshop "Oberlausitzer Souvenir", manufactory - production of the finest miniature figures made of tin, monument and nature trail, Lauschemoor

• Großschönau: TRIXI Park, German Damask and Terry Museum

• Zittau: historic old town, large Zittau Lenten cloth, cultural history museum, Franciscan monastery, zoo, Zittau narrow-gauge railway

• Bogatynia: half-timbered houses, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, St. Mary Magdalene Church, "Turów" open-cast lignite mine museum

• Hejnice: Baroque pilgrimage church, international meeting place for spiritual renewal

• Nové Město pod Smrkem: Church of St. Katarina, Klingermausoleum, observation tower on the Table Spruce, natural swimming pool

• Karpacz: Wang Church, Museum of Sport and Tourism, Toy and Doll Museum

• Lubawka: market with town hall and town houses

• Chełmsko Śląskie: former weavers' houses under the name "The Twelve Apostles"

Saxon Central Uplands long-distance cycle route

• Großschönau: German Damask and Terry Museum, Trixi Park, Folklore and Mill Museum, Veteran Motorcycle and Technology Museum

• Eibau: Faktorenhof, Humboldt Museum

• Oderwitz: summer toboggan run, 5 historic windmills

• Herrnhut: Herrnhuter Sterne Manufaktur, ethnological museum, guild house

• Kottmar: Kottmar tower, Spree spring and legend trail

• Ebersbach: half-timbered houses, baroque parish church, plant garden

• Neusalza-Spremberg: riding school with museum (half-timbered house from around 1600)

• Sohland: reservoir, "Bruno-H.-Bürgel" observatory, local history museum, forest stage

• Schirgiswalde: castle ruins, double-towered Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Körse thermal baths

• Neukirch: Hand and linen weaving mill with show workshop, liqueur factory, potteries

Elbe cycle path

• Mělník: historic town center, St. Peter and Paul Church, ossuary, chateau with the largest collection of Baroque paintings in the Czech Republic, observation tower

• Ústí nad Labem: Museum of Germans in Bohemia, zoo, Masaryk lock

• Děčín: castle with puppet museum, zoo, thermal baths

• Schmilka: historic mill and bakery, Schrammstein viewpoint

• Bad Schandau: National Park House, Kirnitzschtalbahn, Toskana Therme, plant garden, passenger elevator, town museum

• Königstein: Königstein Fortress

• Pirna: town museum, historic town center, St. Marien Church, Geibeltbad baths

• Dresden: Church of Our Lady, Semper Opera House, Zwinger Palace, Brühl's Terrace, Great Garden, Picture Gallery, Green Vault in the Royal Palace, Hygiene Museum and much more.

• Radebeul: Karl May Museum, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Hoflößnitz Winery Museum

• Riesa: monastery & monastery church, zoo with large Elbe aquarium, pasta center

• Torgau: Museum trail, Hartenfels Castle, Katharina Luther parlor

• Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Luther House, Cranach Courtyards, castle church with Thesis door

• Dessau-Roßlau: Bauhaus and Masters' Houses, Hugo Junkers Technology Museum

• Magdeburg: Cathedral, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Hundertwasser architecture project "The Green Citadel of Magdeburg", Roland figure, Rotehornpark, zoo, Elbauenpark

• Tangermünde: Town wall with three gates, castle complex, St. Stephen's Church

• Havelberg: hist. City island, cathedral, Räbel ferry, Prignitz Museum

• Wittenberge: harbor, one of the largest tower clocks in Europe, stone gate, town hall

• Hamburg: Hafencity, Landungsbrücken, Alter Elbtunnel, Hauptkirche St. Michael (Michel), Speicherstadt, Miniatur Wunderland, Jungfernstieg, Alster, historic town hall Town Hall

• Cuxhafen: Kugelbake, old fishing port, fishing museum, wreck museum, Ritzebüttel Castle, Ringelnatz Museum, "Alte Liebe" viewing platform