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Eifel Volcano Route starting at Adenau

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Recorded distance
90 km
Riding-time estimate
1 h 33
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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Why this ride

Volcanic landforms, exposed roads and strong destination anchors. It also links naturally to Vulkaneifel UNESCO Global Geopark.

Access context

Check motorcycle weekend restrictions and noise-control closures on specific roads. Specific flag: weekend traffic; enforcement.

Seasonal context

Apr-Oct

Scenic road chapters

Eifel Volcano Route

Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 22 km this is Eifel Volcano Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.

Chapter facts
Length
22 km
Named road
Eifel Volcano Route

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Adenau

    Planning note

    Adenau sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Daun.

  2. 2. Daun

    Daun is the capital of the Vulkaneifel, and the name is accurate: this is a country of dead volcanoes, and the evidence is all around the town. Instead of cones, the Eifel has maars, round lakes that fill the craters left when rising magma met groundwater and blew itself apart. Three of them lie within a few kilometres of Daun, the Gemündener, Weinfelder and Schalkenmehrener Maar, deep and dark and ringed with woods, and the sight of such perfectly round water in the middle of ordinary hills is oddly moving. The Weinfelder Maar has a small chapel on its shore that makes a very good photograph.

    Read the complete Daun write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Daun comes up 20 km in. Next is Manderscheid.

  3. 3. Manderscheid

    Manderscheid has two castles facing each other across a gorge, and the story of how they came to be there is a classic of medieval feuding. The Oberburg and the Niederburg stand on opposite ridges above the loops of the Lieser river, a hundred metres or so apart, and they were built by rival branches of the same family, who spent several centuries arguing about who owned what. Both are now ruins, atmospheric in the true sense, with broken towers and arches overlooking a deep wooded valley, and a short footpath leads between them. Of the two, the Niederburg is the more complete.

    Read the complete Manderscheid write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    39 km in you reach Manderscheid. Next is Cochem.

  4. 4. Cochem

    Cochem has a castle that is younger than it looks. The Reichsburg, perched on a hill above the town, was built in the eleventh century, destroyed by French troops in 1689, and left a ruin for nearly two hundred years, until a Berlin businessman bought it and rebuilt it in neo-Gothic style in the 1870s. The result is a storybook castle, with turrets and pointed roofs, and a view over the Moselle that is among the finest in the valley.

    Read the complete Cochem write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Cochem, late in the day.

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