Schindelauweg

We walk along the main road through Rittsteig, turn right after the church (parking available) into Oberkaltenhofstraße and walk along it to a hill with a group of planks for the dead, the Schusterkreuz. From here we have a good view of the village of Rittsteig and a glimpse of Neukirchen b.Hl.Blut and the Hohenbogen-Winkel. We walk along the road for a while and then turn left into a meadow, walk to the edge of the forest, past a rest area (here we have a view as far as Klatovy in the Czech Republic), continue through the forest to Oberkaltenhof (a hamlet with 3 farms). Here we stay on the path through the Grasseihof (farm) and walk past a game reserve to the edge of the forest. At the raised hide, we keep to the right and walk through the forest - quite steeply in places - to the road to Schicherhof (from Oberkaltenhof to Schicherhofstraße, Nk22 and Nk6 run together). Here we turn right, soon pass the Buchermühle and continue along the road to the Buchermühlwäldchen; here we keep right. The path now climbs quite steeply for approx. 300 m. After this ascent, we return to Rittsteig via a meadow path. Alternatively, we can take the slightly shorter tarred road in the direction of Rittsteig.