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Kammerbruch Quarry – Seeberg Ridge Trail loop from Seebergen

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Kammerbruch Quarry – Seeberg Ridge Trail loop from Seebergen

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Kammerbruch Quarry – Seeberg Ridge Trail loop from Seebergen

03:28

12.6km

200m

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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: April 22, 2026

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1.97 km

Hermann-Löns Trail

Highlight • Trail

Here the Hermann-Löns-Weg leads through the forest on the Seeberg. You hike on narrow, natural paths and paths through beautiful mixed forest.

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3.04 km

Kammerbruch Quarry

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The quarry on the Seeberg, sandstone was and is mined here, also for Friedenstein Castle and the viaduct in Gotha.

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6.61 km

From 1787 to 1791, the Seeberg observatory was built on the western slope of the Seeberg, still in the urban area of Gotha, under Duke Ernst II. The scientific management was initially with Franz Xaver von Zach. His successors were Bernhard August von Lindenau, Johann Franz Encke and Peter Andreas Hansen. In 1839 he left Seeberg as director at the time. He saved some of the instruments in the new observatory in Gothaer Jägerstraße (see Gotha observatory). The dilapidated Seeberg observatory served as a restaurant until a fire in 1901. Today, two memorial plaques in the grounds of the "Alte Sternwarte" restaurant, newly built in 1904, commemorate the founder of the Seeberg observatory, Duke Ernst II. And its first director, Franz Xaver von Zach. (Wikipedia)

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7.24 km

Bench of Forest Birds

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Lovingly designed bench with birds of the forest. Very informative.

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7.45 km

Former Limestone and Gypsum Quarry Seeberg

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The gypsum quarries are a protected area natural monument. Gypsum was excavated above ground and in tunnels. The tunnel system was closed by mining.

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7.55 km

Deinhards Ruhe Shelter and Memorial

Highlight • Mountain Hut

The path above the former gypsum quarry on the Kleiner Seeberg is very beautiful and offers particularly great views. The view stretches from the Drei Gleichen over the nearby towns of Günthersleben and Wechmar to the Ohrdruf military training area, the Thuringian Forest with Inselsberg, Schneekopf, etc., the residential town of Gotha with the Friedenstein barracks in the foreground and Friedenstein Castle, and all the way to the Hörselberge.
A log cabin was built in the middle of the path in 1901, right next to the memorial stone "Deinhards Ruhe".

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