Panoramaweg Schwarzatal - 4th stage Scheibe-Alsbach to Goldisthal - Thuringian Forest

Your route starts in the small peaceful village Scheibe-Alsbach. After a few steps you reach the first great viewpoint over the valley and the village. Shortly afterwards, you reach the Scheibe-Alsbach reservoir. 

Let's go - the mountain is calling! Incidentally, the Schwarzatal also ends at Scheibe-Alsbach. On the way to the highest point of the panorama path, you pass the Schwarza spring halfway to the ridge path. Past the viewpoint "Weidmannsheil," you reach the Rennsteig after a short but steep ascent.

Now follow the Rennsteig in the direction of Limbach, past Siegmundsburg continuing to Friedrichshöhe. At Friedrichshöhe, you leave the Rennsteig and descend back into the Schwarzatal. Past the floating pond, you follow the Great Langenbach to the well-known lower basin of the Goldisthal pumped storage plant. Here awaits a small attraction for you: At the westernmost point of the lower basin, where the path has a hairpin turn, you can see on the left one of the many bridges of the new ICE high-speed line through the Thuringian Forest. With some luck, you catch exactly one of the brief moments when a Sprinter train travels at about 250 km/h crossing the short Saubach bridge and switching from one tunnel tube to the other. This is also a special experience acoustically.

The last part of the route takes you to the end of the lower basin, past the Grubental bridge to the entrance of the village Goldisthal.