Nature & Active

Nature & Active
in the Welterberegion Wartburg Hainich

 Baumkronenpfad

A special destination is the
Treetop path at the Thiemsburg,
about 10 km from Behringen.

It is Europe's only treetop path in a national park. From the approximately 25 m high circular path, you can experience nature from above.

Wildcats village
Hütscheroda

 Always worth a visit is the wildcat village of Hütscheroda,
about 3.5 km from Behringen.

 Wartburg Eisenach

 Another highlight is the Wartburg in Eisenach - UNESCO
World Heritage.

Furthermore, beautiful cycling and hiking trails waiting to be discovered by you.
Explore for yourself the unique beautiful and fascinating world heritage region Wartburg Hainich.

Either on foot, by bicycle or by horse-drawn carriage.

Excursion destinations in the area

Eisenach - distance 18 km

Eisenach is one of the so-called Luther cities. In the old town you can explore the narrowest house or the largest villa colony in Germany, as well as churches steeped in history and historic buildings from many eras

Musical highlight:
The Bachhaus, one of the largest music museums in Germany. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685. He grew up here for ten years.
The motto: "to collect and preserve everything concerning Johann Sebastian Bach and his life's work"

The Automobile World Eisenach is an automobile museum, which offers you an insight into the more than 100-year history of the automobile industry in Eisenach.


Bad Langensalza - distance 19 km

Bad Langensalza's town history, with its large farmhouses and half-timbered houses, as well as winding streets and alleys, dates back up to 800 years.

Parks and theme gardens:

The many gardens with their different themes such as the Japanese Garden, the Rose Garden, the Arboretum, the Botanical Garden or the Castle Park offer adventure and relaxation in one.

The Friederiken Therme offers spa and wellness offers from natural local remedies sulfur, brine and drinking healing water.


Gotha - distance 20 km

Gotha has a 1250-year history and an unmistakable historic old town with market squares, alleys and numerous lovingly renovated old town houses.

The Ducal Museum and the Friedenstein Castle is an early Baroque palace complex dating from 1567.


Mühlhausen - distance 34 km

In addition to many romantic Old Town impressions, you will see the Mühlhausen highlights in order:

- the city wall with the Inner Women's Gate and Rabenturm
- the Thomas Müntzer Memorial at the Hohe Graben
- the Obermarkt and the historic town hall
- Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Platz
- Bathing fun for young and old in the Thüringentherme
and much more


Erfurt - distance 50 km

The old town of Erfurt is one of the largest old town centres in Germany and was first mentioned in documents in 742, when Boniface founded the diocese of Erfurt.

One of the most famous landmarks of the city of Erfurt is the Krämerbrücke, the longest continuously built and inhabited bridge in Europe.

Erfurt Cathedral is the most important and oldest church building in Erfurt. It is 81. 26 m high and has, with the Gloriosa, the largest free-swinging medieval bell in the world.

Weimar – distance 86 km

Weimar, the city on the river Ilm, is world culture from classical to Bauhaus, beautiful parks and enchanted gardens. The city of poets and thinkers unites German and European cultural history like no other. Weimar surprises visitors time and again with its diverse tourist highlights:

- Bauhaus
- Goethe and Schiller's residence
- Anna Amalia Library
- Weimar's castles, parks and gardens
- Memorial Buchenwald

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