Malerweg Stage 1

The Malerweg — the Painters' Way — loops 116 km through the Elbe sandstone of Saxon Switzerland, laid along the viewpoints that drew Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich. Stage 1 of 8 runs from Pirna-Liebethal to Stadt Wehlen. [Route details] Start: Pirna-Liebethal · End: Stadt Wehlen Via: Mühlsdorf · Uttewalder Felsentor 11.68 km · 137 m to 271 m · climb 142 m [Good to know] - Assembled from the OpenStreetMap relation for the Malerweg and cut at the official stage ends. The Tourismusverband Sächsische Schweiz gives the whole trail as 116 km and 3,600 m of climbing; the assembled line comes to 116.8 km and 3,816 m. - Elevation is sampled from a terrain model at 300 m spacing, not recorded on the ground. On ground this gentle a denser sample inflates the climb — the whole trail reads 3,816 m here against the operator's 3,600 m, but 7,313 m if every track point is used.