Hiking suggestion
Geiersberg (426 m): From the fountain at Neumarkt, follow the Alte Hartmannsdorfer Straße for approx. 200 m, then continue straight on to the edge of the forest at Geiersberg. Turn left at the edge of the forest and then immediately right up the hill. Continue through the beech forest (bench 1/0.6 km).
Kreuzhübel (428 m): Turn left uphill via the Geiersberg settlement to the Alte Hartmannsdorfer Straße. Follow this to the right to the wooded Kreuzhübel (bench 2 on the left on the mountain /1.6 km).
Krähenberg (441 m): Follow a field path down to Saupersdorf, cross Auerbacher Straße and follow the road Zum Sauersack for approx. 200 m. Turn left up to the quarry where the summit used to be (bench 3/2.8 km).
Kratzberg (478 m): Continue along the path in a westerly direction, along the quarry, until you reach the first house on the Sauersack. Keep right at the fork and turn left, always slightly uphill, onto Gerichtsweg and follow it to Gerichtseiche. Follow the path to the left towards the town until you reach the edge of the forest (bench 4/4.3 km).
Quirlsberg/Ottensberg (398 m): Follow the path in a north-easterly direction slightly downhill to the junction with Burkersdorfer Straße and turn left onto it. Approx. 300 m further on, turn right to Ottensberg (bench 5 on the right at the edge of the forest / 6.1 km).
Schießhausberg (440 m): Down the Ottensberg and steeply down to Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. Continue to the right and cross Schneeberger Straße, via Sonnenberg, Täubertsberg and Scheringerstraße past the children's home to the location (bench 6/7.4 km).
Borberg (435 m): Past the town estate down to Wiesener Straße. Follow this and Robert-Seidel-Straße (Kaffeeberg) towards the town and take a sharp right onto Hinterm Bahnhof until you reach Bahnhofstraße. Follow this road briefly to the left and, after crossing it, take the Anton-Günter-Weg up to the Borberg with its viewing tower and restaurant (bench 7/10.2 km). (Hiking time: 3-4 hours depending on the time spent on the benches)
From the Borberg back to Neumarkt, you walk through the miners' settlement down into the valley, then turn right along the Rödelbach stream and finally along Torstraße past the Margarethenkirche church back to the town hall and finally Neumarkt.
