Fruit Region Cycle Route - Subroute I - Fruit Region current

  • 30.90 km long
  • Round trip
  • Difficulty: medium
  • Condition: easy
  • Cycling
  • 2:30 h
  • 30.90 km
  • 165 m
  • 164 m
  • 148 m
  • 234 m
  • 86 m
  • Start: Leipnitz
  • Destination: Leipnitz

The route starts from Leipnitz along extensive fruit orchards. On 1,500 ha of cultivation area, about 40,000 t of pome, stone, and berry fruits ripen here annually. Modern storage, sorting, and marketing technology in the cooling warehouse complex in Dürrweitzschen, which can hold up to 25,000 tons, ensures year-round availability of the fruits grown in the fruit-growing region.

More about the cycling routes in the Leipzig region: www.leipzig.travel/radfahren

Good to know

Pavements

Street (53%)
Asphalt (35%)
Gravel (10%)
Trail (2%)

Best to visit

suitable
Depends on weather

Directions

The circular route starts in Leipnitz. From there, the path first takes you to Papsdorf and then to Dürrweitzschen. In a north-eastern direction, you pass the villages of Zschopach, Draschwitz, and Ablaß before you reach Querbitzsch.

Then the route swings southwards via Börtewitz to Kroptewitz and further to Sitten. Via the villages Doberschütz, Polditz, and Böhlen, it finally goes back to the starting point in Leipnitz, where your circular route concludes.

Tour information

  • Loop Road

  • Stop at an Inn

Equipment

Bicycle helmet, weatherproof clothing, provisions and water, bicycle lighting in darkness

Directions & Parking facilities

Getting there

Accessible by car from Leipzig via the A14.

Parking

Parking lot at the church in Leipnitz

Commuter parking lot near Bockelwitz on the S31

Public transportation

By train

Tanndorf station: RB110 (approx. 4 km to the route in Böhlen)

Kemmlitz station: with the Döllnitzbahn from Oschatz direction

By bus

Leipnitz Dorfstr.: No. 633 as well as No. 636

Additional information

More about the cycling routes in the Leipzig region: www.leipzig.travel/radfahren

Author

Christina Witt

Organization

LEIPZIG REGION

License (master data)

Christina Witt
License: no copyright required (Public domain) (no copyright)

Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Wer mit dem ÖPNV anreist, kann am Bahnhof Tanndorf den Mulderadweg als Zubringer bis zum Start der Obstland-Radroute (Teilroute I) in Polditz nutzen.