Emsetal: Find hotels for your trip

If you are looking for a hotel in Emsetal, you can plan your trip around the topics that interest you. In the surrounding area, views and historic village scenery sit alongside recommendations for various side trips. The Panorama-Rundweg “Inselsbergblick” offers views of Großer Inselsberg in the Thuringian Forest and the Emsetal valley. Together with the destinations mentioned in Winterstein, this provides a guide to both landscape and culture. When making your initial selection, consider whether you would rather focus on views and trails or on local history and architecture.

The circular trail and recommended side trips

Several side trips are recommended from the Panorama-Rundweg “Inselsbergblick”. These include Nonnenbergsteich and Bergbühne Fischbach; Burgruine Winterstein and the dog monument there are also mentioned. Sandberg is another recommended destination and is described as being 415 m high, with panoramic views. Weather permitting, Waldschwimmbad Winterstein is also recommended as a side trip. The options range from a pond and an open-air stage to a viewpoint, historic landmarks and the swimming pool. If you are looking for panoramic views, Sandberg is the destination explicitly described that way; the other side trips each focus on different themes.

Winterstein: village scenery and history

Winterstein has a nearly 100-year tradition as a health resort. The village has many well-preserved half-timbered houses. Schlosspark is home to the castle quarter with its castle ruins, the moat, the Vogtei and the manor house. Below the castle ruins is a gravestone dedicated to the dog Stutzel. This collection ranges from the half-timbered houses in the village to the grounds in Schlosspark and a gravestone dedicated to an individual. Winterstein thus offers a different focus from the scenic views along the circular trail and adds local history to your travel plans.

Culture in the wider destination of Waltershausen

The wider destination of Waltershausen offers further cultural attractions. GutsMuths-Gedächtnishalle Schnepfenthal is a centre for sport and culture. It provides information about history, nature, GutsMuths and the Rennsteiglauf, and has established itself as a gallery with special exhibitions. Outside the hall are information panels about GutsMuths and his pupils, as well as trees from every continent. Schnepfenthal’s sights also include the historic cemetery in Hardt, an old manor house and the Salzmannschule grammar school.

Architecture is another distinct focus in Waltershausen. The ballroom of Schloss Tenneberg dates from 1719, is one of the castle’s three surviving Baroque rooms and features a ceiling painting by the Thuringian court painter Johann Heinrich Ritter. The town church “Zur Gotteshilfe” in Waltershausen is regarded as Thuringia’s first major Baroque central-plan church and a forerunner of Dresden Frauenkirche in its floor plan and construction. Its organ has three manuals, 53 sounding stops and 2,806 pipes.

When planning your trip, you can weigh up different focuses: views and side trips along the Panorama-Rundweg, historic village scenery in Winterstein, or the history of sport, culture and architecture in the wider Waltershausen area.

Discover more destinations: Winterstein, Schmerbach, Bufleben, Dachwig, Waltershausen, Hohenkirchen, Apfelstädt, Leinatal.

Go to the wider travel overview: Gotha.