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Hopfgarten

View south from Ettersberg – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Memorial loop from Hopfgarten (Weimar)

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Weimarer Land
Hopfgarten

View south from Ettersberg – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Memorial loop from Hopfgarten (Weimar)

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View south from Ettersberg – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Memorial loop from Hopfgarten (Weimar)

04:18

15.2km

320m

Hiking

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

Waypoints

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Start point

Train Station

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5.82 km

View south from Ettersberg

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Open meadow landscape with parts of the forest, beautiful views and good for wildlife and bird watching.

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2

6.35 km

Buchenwald Memorial Ring Graves

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In natural earth wells, the SS had in March / April 1945 bury about 3000 dead. Three of the funeral funers were designed as ring graves.

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3

6.53 km

Along a wide road that connects the ring graves are brick pylons bearing the names of 18 nations.

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6.67 km

Massive Roman-style curtain walls enclose three large funnels. They are mass graves from the Buchenwald concentration camp, in which the SS had around 3,000 dead buried in the spring of …

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6.92 km

The path is lined with seven steles symbolizing the seven years of the concentration camp and reminiscent of scenes from camp life.

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7.90 km

Ruins of the SS Leadership Settlement

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In the immediate vicinity of the camp, on the sunny and leeward south side of the Ettersberg, were ten villas of the SS leaders of the camp management and their …

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8.34 km

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Memorial

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The memorial site, inaugurated in 1999, commemorates the Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Wehrmacht general Friedrich von Rabenau and the Wehrmacht captain Ludwig Gehre, who were held captive as “special …

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10.9 km

Church Tower of Ottstedt am Berge

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Ottstedt am Berge (officially: Ottstedt a. Berge) is a district of the rural community Grammetal in the west of the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia.

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15.2 km

End point

Train Station

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.3 km

3.99 km

890 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

4.42 km

4.23 km

3.03 km

1.99 km

1.40 km

121 m

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Highest point (460 m)

Lowest point (220 m)

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Monday 6 July

27°C

17°C

14 %

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