Extratour Der Meininger - Meiningen - Rhön

We start the extratour in the theater city of Meiningen. It is one of the oldest and most important cities in southern Thuringia. In the middle of the district and cultural city is the former residence of the Dukes of Saxony-Meiningen, Elisabethenburg Castle. A detour through the art collection on the music and art history of Meiningen is worthwhile. Our path leads through the forest park, up to the popular Dietzhäuschen viewpoint. From here it is not far to the foot of the Landsberg, on which the "Landsberg fairytale castle" is located. We hike to the viewpoint at the Schaubachhütte, which offers a magical view, and continue to Landsberg Castle. To the south there are impressive remains of the wall and deep ditches of the ruins of the Habichtsburg. One thinks that Sleeping Beauty would live here, that's how enchanted the fairytale castle looks. From there it goes on to Dreisigacker with its neo-Gothic village church, which stands above the village on the northern edge. On the way back to Meiningen we come over the Dietrichskopf and have a wonderful view over the city. At the end we pass the Goetz Cave, Europe's largest crevice and crevice cave. The natural cave is named after the Meiningen merchant Reinhold Goetz, who discovered a crevice while working in his mountain garden. Current information about the opening of the cave can be found on the Goetz cave website.