Ostweg

The Ostweg leads out of the Golden City Pforzheim over the heights east and west of the Nagold Valley. Valleys, heights, and open landscape bring the hiker past Pfalzgrafenweiler, Freudenstadt, by Friedrichsturm and Vogteiturm to Alpirsbach in the Kinzig Valley. Over the plateau with Aichhalden, Schramberg in the Schiltach Valley, and the heights with the Waldau ruin, Königsfeld, Mönchweiler, Villingen-Schwenningen and the Neckar source, the path offers views to the Swabian Jura in the east, the Black Forest in the west, and over the Baar towards the Alps. The path passes through the typical landscape at the transition to the Swabian Jura and crosses the Danube Valley near Geisingen. On the heights of the ridge, the Ostweg reaches its highest point at 920 m above sea level. Over Eichberg it reaches the valley of the Wutach at Achdorf and follows it downstream to Stühlingen. Over the last major ascent of the path to the Schleitheim Randenturm it goes down to Schaffhausen on the Upper Rhine.