Why this ride
79 km from Ehrenfriedersdorf to Ehrenfriedersdorf, about 1 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Lauta Mining Landscape, Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works and back through Lauta Mining Landscape. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape and Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 79 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 29
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape
Tin, not silver, was the business of Ehrenfriedersdorf. For around eight hundred years miners dug into the Sauberg hill above this small Erzgebirge town for tin ore, and the Ehrenfriedersdorf mining landscape, with its shafts, spoil heaps, ponds and ditches, is one of the components of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region World Heritage Site. The Sauberg visitor mine lets you go underground into galleries worked by generations of miners, and the hard hat, the damp cold and the drip of water make the history very physical.
Read the complete Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is where the day begins. Next is Lauta Mining Landscape.
2. Lauta Mining Landscape
Marienberg was laid out in 1521 as a planned silver town, with a vast square market place and streets set in a grid, an idea of urban order that was new in this part of Europe. Lauta, today a district of Marienberg, lies among the old mine workings, spoil heaps and shafts that fed that wealth, and it is one of the components of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, the cross-border World Heritage Site shared by Saxony and the Czech Republic and inscribed in 2019.
Read the complete Lauta Mining Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lauta Mining Landscape comes up 19 km in. Next is Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works.
3. Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works
Down in the valley of the Flöha, on the edge of Olbernhau, stands an industrial village that looks almost too neat to be real: slate-roofed workshops, a hammer mill, workers' houses and a stout gatehouse, all enclosed within a wall. This is the Saigerhütte Grünthal, a works that separated silver from copper ore by a technique called liquation, and it is one of the best preserved sites of its kind in Europe. It forms part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, listed by UNESCO in 2019 for both the German and Czech sides of the range.
Read the complete Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
38 km in you reach Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works. Next is back through Lauta Mining Landscape.
4. back through Lauta Mining Landscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lauta Mining Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Lauta Mining Landscape, late in the day. Next is Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape.
5. Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape to Lauta Mining Landscape
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Lauta Mining Landscape is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lauta Mining Landscape to Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works
Lauta Mining Landscape → Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works to back through Lauta Mining Landscape
Grünthal Silver-Copper Liquation Works → back through Lauta Mining Landscape is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lauta Mining Landscape to Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape
back through Lauta Mining Landscape → Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.