Experience stations

No matter from which place you start your hike, an inspiring landscape rich in views awaits you. 12 experience stations accompany you on a thought journey to yourself and the people you love.

" The sublime language of nature, the sounds of needy humanity only the hiker gets to know." Goethe

What good is love in thoughts

Weimar ↔ Bad Berka

The Love Labyrinth is based on the well-known "Kugel-labyrinth". The aim of the game is to get Goethe through the labyrinth to Charlotte von Stein in Großkochberg as quickly as possible by moving the game table and thus to explore the Goethe ...

A rotating bench invites you to enjoy the view in a special way. Floor markings make it possible to spy various places related to Goethe's love life.

Silhouettenwand

At this station, you can actively recreate the culture of silhouettes from Goethe's time. Everyone can use it to leave an image of themselves for subsequent hikers or their loved ones.

Shared experiences strengthen the feeling of togetherness, create fond memories and enable people to rediscover themselves again and again. When jumping (together) on the trampoline, perhaps the heart also makes a jump.

At the well-known Tafelbuche there is now a "table" and a "book". At the long table, many people find room to be together, to dine and to laugh. In the oversized book, the hikers may carve their messages and vows of love for eternity.

Free at last

Bad Berka ↔ Blankenhain

On a hill, a large periscope invites visitors to focus their own gaze. Not only selected views over the country can be discovered.

A place to come to rest and relieve stress. This station allows to live the positive and health experiences of forest bathing. Several offers invite you to open your senses and come into feeling.

How far is it to the other side of the valley and how long does it take to cover the distance? The telescope helps you to estimate and playfully invites you to deal with time and distance. At the same time, you get a feeling for the distance ...

Love in the mirror of time

Blankenhain ↔ Großkochberg

After a strenuous climb, one expects a view over the country here. But this expectation is surprisingly transformed when you become part of the panorama yourself.

At this station, excerpts from the countless letters Goethe wrote to his Charlotte von Stein can inspire you to pick up the pen again. Whether it's a classic postcard or a digital message - anything goes.

On the heart-shaped partner swing you swing in time. Together as a couple or alone you can enjoy the view of the tree-lined landscape and create a memory with the selfie station.

Countless buildings were created in the name of love. So also the Luisenturm, which stands not far from this station off the path. Many different natural stones invite you to build a small stone sculpture yourself and thus set a monument to a ...