Hiking - Rennsteig - Stage 7 - From Spechtsbrunn to Brennersgrün

You start this stage in Spechtsbrunn and follow the Rennsteig through the forest to Kalte Küche. At this former border point of a major trade route to Nuremberg is now the nature park information and a small snack bar. Then continue straight on through the dense forest and over mountain meadows to the Frankenwald Hut, ideal for a first break. Then the original course of the Rennsteig steadily descends the road to Steinbach am Wald. The approximately 6 km long road section can also be hiked on a detour close to nature. 

Right at the entrance to the village stands the futuristic glass obelisk, which is especially visible in the evening hours due to its artistic lighting.

About halfway, the Hotel and Restaurant "Rennsteig" invites you for a midday snack on weekends. Passing the Rennsteigpark, the well-known high-altitude hiking trail continues the road further until behind the roundabout at the old brickworks and then turns right back into the dense forests. In the last kilometers to the dreamy Brennersgrün, the Rennsteig follows the Loquitz spring past the former inner-German border.