Sixth Stage “Lower Lusa­t­ian Min­ing Tour”: Forst (Lausitz) - Sprem­berg

In Forst (Lausitz), the East Ger­man Rose Gar­den and the Forst Museum (from autumn 2025) invite you to visit. From Forst (Lausitz), the route leads through sev­eral small vil­lages to Döbern. The two most impor­tant indus­tries in the region were linked in Döbern: Lig­nite and glass. Glass has been pro­duced in Döbern since 1867. From Döbern, you cycle along secluded cycle paths through the land­scape of the Muskauer Fal­tenbo­gen to Bohs­dorf. Here you can visit the Erwin Strittmat­ter memo­r­ial, the orig­i­nal set­ting for the Strittmat­ter fam­ily tril­ogy ‘The Shop’, in a shop that is true to the orig­i­nal 1920s. In Hornow, a detour to the Con­fis­erie Felic­i­tas choco­late fac­tory awaits you. The route con­tin­ues through sev­eral small vil­lages with inter­est­ing churches and regional muse­ums to Sprem­berg. 

Length: 77 kilo­me­tres
Start: Forst (Lausitz)
Fin­ish: Sprem­berg

Logo/route sign: Red devil with bicy­cle

Arrival: Take the RE2 from Berlin cen­tral sta­tion to Cot­tbus. From here take the RB46 to Forst (Lausitz) (about 2.5 hours).
Depar­ture: From Sprem­berg take the OE65 to Cot­tbus. From here take the RE2 (Wis­mar) to Berlin cen­tral sta­tion (about 3 hours).

Route: Forst (Lausitz) /Neu Sacro, Klein Jamno, Klinge, Groß Jamno, Jethe, Smarso, Gahry, Mat­ten­dorf, Klein Kölzig, Groß Kölzig, Döbern, Friedrichshain, Bohs­dorf, Hornow, Klein Loitz, Blois­chdorf, Groß Luja, Hai­demühl, Sel­l­essen, Bühlow, Sprem­berg

Points of inter­est/back­ground infor­ma­tion:

• Forst (Lusa­tia): Forst Museum (from autumn 2025), East Ger­man Rose Gar­den
• Klein Kölzig: UNESCO Global Geop­ark Muskauer Fal­tenbo­gen, old brick­works with Hoff­mann ring fir­ing kiln and brick­works rail­way
• Felixsee obser­va­tion tower
• Bohs­dorf: “The Shop” – Erwin Strittmat­ter Memo­r­ial
• Hornow: Con­fis­erie Felic­i­tas with the Schoko­laden­land
• Blois­chdorf: Lower Lusa­t­ian Sor­bian Vil­lage Museum
• Neu-Hai­demühl obser­va­tion tower
• Sprem­berg: Cas­tle with the Nieder­lausitzer Hei­de­mu­seum, dam

Pos­si­ble com­bi­na­tions

• Prince Pückler Cycle Path
• Oder-Neiße Cycle Path
• Old Min­ing Tour
• Tour Bran­den­burg
• Spree Cycle Path

Trail con­di­tions/sur­face: 
mostly asphalted cycle paths and cycle roads, some sec­tions also on side roads, unpaved paths or paved roads, some root break-ups, few gra­di­ents

Maps/Lit­er­a­ture:

• Upper Spree­wald-Lausitz dis­trict, 1:50,000, Sach­sen Kar­togra­phie GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86843-058-5
• Lusa­t­ian Lake­land, 1:50,000, Sach­sen Kar­togra­phie GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86843-021-9
• Nieder­lausitz/Lausitzer Seen­land, 1:75,000, ADFC regional map, BVA Ver­lag, ISBN 978-3-87073-783-2