CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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164 km from Annaberg-Buchholz to Annaberg-Buchholz, about 3 h 20 of riding. On the way it passes Mědník Hill Mining Landscape, Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, Eibenstock Mining Landscape and back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region. It crosses from Germany into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Silver built Annaberg. In the late fifteenth century rich silver ore was found in the Erzgebirge, the Ore Mountains on the border between Saxony and Bohemia, and a town was founded almost overnight in 1496 to house the miners. Within a few decades Annaberg was one of the largest towns in Saxony, and its wealth paid for the St. Annenkirche, one of the most beautiful late Gothic hall churches in Germany, with slender pillars branching into a star-ribbed vault like the trunks of trees.
Read the complete Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape write-up.
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Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape is where the day begins. Next is Mědník Hill Mining Landscape.
Mědník is a small, steep hill on the Czech side of the Ore Mountains, or Krušné hory, the range that forms the border between Bohemia and Saxony. It rises above the village of Měděnec, whose name, like the hill's, comes from the Czech word for copper. For centuries, miners tunnelled into the hill for copper and iron ore, and the hill is now part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, inscribed by UNESCO in 2019 as a cross-border site.
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Mědník Hill Mining Landscape comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region.
The word dollar comes from these hills. In the early sixteenth century, a silver rush at Joachimsthal, today's Jáchymov, made the town one of the largest in Bohemia, and the coins minted there, the Joachimsthaler, shortened to thaler, gave their name to currencies around the world. The Erzgebirge, or Krušné hory, the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border, were mined for silver, tin, cobalt, iron and finally uranium for eight centuries, and the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2019.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region. Next is Eibenstock Mining Landscape.
Eibenstock sits high in the western Erzgebirge, at about six hundred metres above the sea, in a country of spruce forests and cold, clear streams. It owes its origins to tin: miners worked the tin deposits here from the Middle Ages, and the mining landscape around the town, with old spoil heaps, shafts and water channels, is part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, which UNESCO recognised in 2019. Today, the traces are quiet, softened by moss and birch.
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Eibenstock Mining Landscape, about halfway. Next is back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region.
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Read the complete Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region write-up.
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back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Mědník Hill Mining Landscape write-up.
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back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape comes up about 137 km into the recorded legs. Next is Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape write-up.
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Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape closes the day.
Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape → Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → Eibenstock Mining Landscape is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eibenstock Mining Landscape → back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.