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Quarry Granite is still occasionally quarried in some quarries today. Wolfgang Neidhardt, Werner RostPhoto: Wolfgang Neidhardt, Werner Rost, Rother Bergverlag
South of Kirchenlamitz, hikers are introduced to the past of the Fichtelgebirge and led to the modest riches of the region: Stones and potatoes. At the Buchhaus hiking parking lot directly on the Kirchenlamitz - Weißenstadt road and at a second parking lot slightly above, the corresponding themed trails are shown and explained on maps. Fichtelgebirge granite was one of the region's most valuable mineral resources. At the beginning of the 19th century, 20 quarries were set up around the Epprechtstein castle ruins. Until the Second World War, granite quarrying was an important economic factor before the precious, hard stone was increasingly replaced by cheaper and easier to work building materials. Today, it is only mined commercially in a few quarries, e.g. on the south side of the Kösseine. The quarry trail leads to six former quarries and illustrates the hard work of granite extraction with reconstructions and information boards.
Follow the forest path south of the Buchhaus parking lot for approx. 15 minutes in a south-westerly direction. At the level of the parking lot at Hinteres Buchhaus, follow the markings of the quarry path on the right, a stonemason's symbol. The route circles the castle ruins and at the end leads to the loading station for the granite on the former Kirchenlamitz-Ost - Weißenstadt railroad line. The Sechsämter cycle path, a beautifully laid out footpath and cycle path, now runs along this route and leads back to Buchhaus. However, it is advisable to include the Epprechtstein castle ruins, 798 m, with viewing platform in the route - either before visiting the quarry by turning right shortly before reaching the Lenksbruch quarry without the stonemason's symbol and walking uphill until you reach the castle, or, as we do, shortly before the end of the loop. Where the quarry path leads to the left towards the former loading station, it goes up to the right to the mountain guard hut, next to
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