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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From Annaberg-Buchholz it runs 244 km to Annaberg-Buchholz; allow about 4 h 08 of riding. On the way it passes Žatec, Krupka Mining Landscape and back through Žatec. It crosses from Germany into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Žatec.
The smell gives Žatec away in late summer. The fields around this small town in northwestern Bohemia are planted with hops, tall green vines climbing up wires on wooden poles, and when harvest comes in August, the air fills with their resinous, slightly bitter scent. Saaz hops, named after the German form of the town's name, have been prized by brewers for centuries for their fine aroma, and they are a key ingredient in Czech pilsner lagers. In 2023, UNESCO inscribed Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops, recognising the town's hop warehouses, drying kilns, packing houses and the surrounding hop gardens as a unique agricultural and industrial heritage.
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Žatec comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Krupka Mining Landscape.
Krupka is a hillside mining town stuck to the foot of the Ore Mountains, and it wears its history quietly. The town sits a short climb above the plain near Teplice and Ústí nad Labem in the north of Bohemia, with the ridge of the Krušné hory rising behind. Tin was dug here for a very long time, and the shafts and spoil heaps scattered around the slopes are what UNESCO recognised in 2019 when it listed the Ore Mountains mining region, a landscape shared with Saxony on the German side. Marienberg, on the far side of the border, belongs to the same story.
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about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Krupka Mining Landscape. Next is back through Žatec.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Žatec write-up.
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back through Žatec, late in the day. Next is Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape. That is the ride.
Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape → Žatec is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Žatec → Krupka Mining Landscape is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Krupka Mining Landscape → back through Žatec is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Žatec → Annaberg-Frohnau Mining Landscape is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.