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Railway romance & vintage dreams

Nostalgia along the entire route - Huffing and hissing, the Fichtelberg train approaches the impressive Hüttenbach viaduct just outside Oberwiesenthal. With a long drawn out whistle and a hissing cloud of steam, the black colossus greets the ramblers down in the valley. The spectacle is not a scene from days gone by, but rather a common sight up in the Erzgebirge today, where the old narrow gauge trains wheeze through our picture-book landscape on four railway lines covering a total of 56 km.

Of horses old and new

In the olden days, Electors saddled their horses here to ride to the hunt. Today, a rather different means of transport is the order of the day. The motorbike town of Zschopau is home to an impressive two-wheeler exhibition, rather grandly accommodated at Wildeck Castle. The region is also known for world class trail-biking.

Places to see in the district

Among others, the steam railway and light railway, and historical trains: the Erzgebirge sight-seeing train, Fichtelberg train, Preßnitztal train and Schönheide museum railway

Railway museums at Schwarzenberg and Rittersgrün, Erzgebirge Schönfeld model railway, Seiffen model railway

The motorbike town of Zschopau and motorbike exhibition (Wildeck Castle)