Discovery Tour to Wolf Hill — dream trails on Dresden Heath

The Fischhaus restaurant in the Radeberger Vorstadt is the starting point of this beautiful hike in the Dresdner Heide. It goes straight into the forest and you hike in a large arc to the sister spring above the Weißer Hirsch district.

Here and in the neighboring Degelequelle you can imitate the residents of the Weißer Hirsch, who get fresh water in the morning with bottles and thermos flasks and refill your drinking bottle. According to the district forester, the water is of drinking water quality and is examined annually.

At the edge of the Dresdner Heide you now hike on to the Napoleonschanze. It is located on one of the cliffs that have formed here and offers you a very good view over the Mordgrundbrücke quarry into the Elbe valley. Just a stone's throw away you will meet Chiron, the centaur from ancient mythology.

The great affinity of the Saxon princes and their builders during the Renaissance and Baroque periods brought the ancient models to a new flowering. Castles, parks and facades were richly decorated with the now fashionable mythical creatures and finally, in 1902, the philanthropic centaur Chiron was erected here, in the immediate vicinity of the Kurpark Weißer Hirsch and the Lahmann sanatorium, in order to represent a connection to nature and healing.

Then it goes back into the forest to the wolf hill with the ruins of a former lookout tower. Today only the base of the 25 meter high observation tower with two exposed staircases, built in 1911, remains here. At that time it was made of reinforced concrete, comparable to today's reinforced concrete. It is hard to imagine that the materials were transported by horse to the construction site in the middle of the forest on a specially designed, 450 meter long field railway.

You will soon reach the starting point again and if you like, you can take the opportunity to visit the historic fish house. There you can linger on the beautiful hike and let yourself be pampered by the innkeepers.