Nature and Outdoor Activities
The 11.7-kilometre circular hiking trail “Mining and the Herbalist Tradition” begins in the centre of Bockau. The route takes around 3–4 hours and links the vitriol oil works, the Friede-Gottes adit, a mining educational trail, Gretels Ruh, the herbalist garden and the Bockauer Wurzelstube. Anyone looking to rent a holiday apartment in Bockau can continue their accommodation search afterwards.
Bockau provides access to wooded natural park landscapes with natural streams, biotopes and established hiking, horse-riding and cycling trails. The municipality’s visitor guide also names Morgenleithe and Auersberg as nearby hiking destinations in the surrounding woodland.
The Mulde Cycle Path passes directly by Bockau and runs along the former Aue–Wolfsgrün railway line.
Culture and History
The Baroque hall church in Bockau has a 41-metre-high tower, dates from 1637 and contains an altar consecrated in 1617 as well as a painting from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Surrounding Area
Falkenstein, Brand, Oberer Sachsen-Stein and Buchberg are located near Bockau. Albernau and the parish church of St. John are also near Bockau, as are Aue and St. Nicholas Church.
Further afield in the region are Annaberg-Buchholz, the former Franciscan monastery, and Zwickau (Cainsdorf), the church.
More local pages: Dorfchemnitz, Marienberg, Schwarzenberg/Erzgebirge, Mildenau, Gelenau, Schneeberg, Stützengrün, Königswalde.
