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Ettersburg Castle – Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower loop from Ettersburg

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Ettersburg Castle – Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower loop from Ettersburg

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Ettersburg Castle – Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower loop from Ettersburg

04:13

15.4km

240m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 11, 2026

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2.83 km

Ettersburg Castle

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Since the first palace and park complexes were built at the beginning of the 18th century, Ettersburg was a popular hunting and summer residence for the ducal family of Saxony-Weimar …

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6.58 km

View of the Appellplatz (Roll Call Square)

Highlight • Historical Site

The roll call area was behind the gate building and the “lock”. Until 1946, so-called general roll calls with all prisoners were held here in the mornings and evenings.

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8.38 km

Caracho Path, Buchenwald Memorial

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A dark part of our history!

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8.62 km

Buchenwald Memorial Bell Tower

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Buchenwald Concentration Camp, officially KL Buchenwald, was one of the largest concentration camps on German soil. It operated as a forced labor camp on the Ettersberg hill near Weimar between …

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8.99 km

Buchenwald Railway Memorial Trail

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In the spring of 1943 concentration camp inmates had to build the 10km long railway line between Weimar-Schöndorf and Buchenwald within just three months.

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10.5 km

Memorial Stones on the Buchenwald Memorial Path

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In 2009, the design of the memorial stones was started here. They are intended to commemorate children and adolescents who were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1944.

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