Salmon Experience Trail Murgtal - Forbach section

Starting at Forbach train station, follow Eckstraße to the Forbach wooden bridge. Turn left here up the footpath to Schifferstraße. After reaching the street, first cross it and then a few meters further, also cross the railway line via the bridge. After the bridge, turn right onto the gravel field path running parallel to the railway tracks. Follow this path until the edge of the village is nearly reached on the other side of the railway, then gently turn right downwards through the railway underpass back onto Schifferstraße. Turn left here until after about 100m Schifferstraße and Eckstraße meet. Turn right into Eckstraße and stay on it until the weir system of the Rudolf-Fettweis plant is reached. Cross the Murg on the weir. At the foot of Werkstraße, turn right down the stairs and walk through the houses to Rudolf-Fettweis-Straße. Then keep left and head back towards the village. After a left bend in the street, turn right into Murgstraße. Stay on this street until the main road is reached. Go straight ahead through the passage between the houses to Stried. The street leads down to the right to Murghalle and Murggarten. In front of the hall stands the large info salmon. Passing it, you reach Murggarten via the wooden terrace.

From here, a footpath with stairs leads up along the central axis of the facility to the federal road. On the sidewalk, go right up to the bridge over the Murg. You can end the short loop here by crossing the bridge and directly return to the starting point at the train station.

Those who don't want to miss the more adventurous part of the route must cross the federal road here and immediately after the intersection turn right from Friedrichstraße into Eulenfelsenstraße (If crossing the federal road here feels too dangerous, a small detour to use the traffic light at the train station is possible).

At the end of Eulenfelsenstraße cross the parking lot, then the footpath runs first along the canal and then along the Murg to the sports ground of SV Forbach. Along the edge of the ground, go behind it up the forest path to the so-called gravel pit. Here, above the Murg, there is a viewing pavilion.

The footpath branching off to the right after the climb leads toward the federal road. After a small flight of stairs and then left along behind the guardrails, you can reach the Montana swimming center. Before the stairs, a forest path leads left down to one of the most idyllic sections of the Murg riverbank. However, this is only a detour from the main route. Those who return by the same way go straight ahead, coming from the sports ground turn left, and continue uphill following the forest path to the next hairpin bend. From here, turn right and go gently downhill, increasingly path-like, through the forest toward the Murg riverbank and the "Hölle". Before the strenuous ascent to Bermersbach, turn right to the riverbank opposite the Tennetschlucht viaduct. Certainly one of the most beautiful spots on the route.

Return to the junction and then go up the hill. First, a high-voltage line is crossed, then a field path is reached, and the vegetation alternates with the first meadows. Continuing on the field path, you reach Brunnenhalde Bermersbach. Turn right on the street to the intersection with Bermersbachstraße, then sharply right again downhill leaving the built-up area. At the forest edge, left again on a forest path downhill toward Langenbrand. In the valley floor pass the two houses and briefly uphill over the access road to K3754. Turn right here for a short stretch on the roadway before continuing on the sidewalk to cross the Murg.

Here either turn right over the Murg and then continue on the sidewalk left to the Langenbrand stop, which marks the end of the Forbach section, or before the bridge turn left uphill into the Weisenbach section of the salmon experience trail, which then leads for another three kilometers above or along the Murg to the Au stop.