Sixth Stage “Lower Lusatian Mining Tour”: Forst (Lausitz) - Spremberg

In Forst (Lausitz), the East German Rose Garden and the Forst Museum (from autumn 2025) invite you to visit. From Forst (Lausitz), the route leads through several small villages to Döbern. The two most important industries in the region were linked in Döbern: Lignite and glass. Glass has been produced in Döbern since 1867. From Döbern, you cycle along secluded cycle paths through the landscape of the Muskauer Faltenbogen to Bohsdorf. Here you can visit the Erwin Strittmatter memorial, the original setting for the Strittmatter family trilogy ‘The Shop’, in a shop that is true to the original 1920s. In Hornow, a detour to the Confiserie Felicitas chocolate factory awaits you. The route continues through several small villages with interesting churches and regional museums to Spremberg. 

Length: 77 kilometres
Start: Forst (Lausitz)
Finish: Spremberg

Logo/route sign: Red devil with bicycle

Arrival: Take the RE2 from Berlin central station to Cottbus. From here take the RB46 to Forst (Lausitz) (about 2.5 hours).
Departure: From Spremberg take the OE65 to Cottbus. From here take the RE2 (Wismar) to Berlin central station (about 3 hours).

Route: Forst (Lausitz) /Neu Sacro, Klein Jamno, Klinge, Groß Jamno, Jethe, Smarso, Gahry, Mattendorf, Klein Kölzig, Groß Kölzig, Döbern, Friedrichshain, Bohsdorf, Hornow, Klein Loitz, Bloischdorf, Groß Luja, Haidemühl, Sellessen, Bühlow, Spremberg

Points of interest/background information:

• Forst (Lusatia): Forst Museum (from autumn 2025), East German Rose Garden
• Klein Kölzig: UNESCO Global Geopark Muskauer Faltenbogen, old brickworks with Hoffmann ring firing kiln and brickworks railway
• Felixsee observation tower
• Bohsdorf: “The Shop” – Erwin Strittmatter Memorial
• Hornow: Confiserie Felicitas with the Schokoladenland
• Bloischdorf: Lower Lusatian Sorbian Village Museum
• Neu-Haidemühl observation tower
• Spremberg: Castle with the Niederlausitzer Heidemuseum, dam

Possible combinations

• Prince Pückler Cycle Path
• Oder-Neiße Cycle Path
• Old Mining Tour
• Tour Brandenburg
• Spree Cycle Path

Trail conditions/surface: 
mostly asphalted cycle paths and cycle roads, some sections also on side roads, unpaved paths or paved roads, some root break-ups, few gradients

Maps/Literature:

• Upper Spreewald-Lausitz district, 1:50,000, Sachsen Kartographie GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86843-058-5
• Lusatian Lakeland, 1:50,000, Sachsen Kartographie GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86843-021-9
• Niederlausitz/Lausitzer Seenland, 1:75,000, ADFC regional map, BVA Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87073-783-2