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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A 356 km round trip from Eibenstock - roughly 6 h 35 in the saddle. The stops in between: Jáchymov Mining Landscape, Marienberg Mining Town, Freiberg Mining Landscape and Altenberg-Zinnwald Mining Landscape. It crosses from Germany into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Eibenstock Mining Landscape write-up.
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Eibenstock Mining Landscape is where the day begins. Next is Jáchymov Mining Landscape.
The word dollar comes from this small town in the Ore Mountains. In the early sixteenth century, the silver mines of Jáchymov, then called Joachimsthal, were among the richest in Europe, and the coins minted here were called Joachimsthaler, shortened to thaler, which became daler and eventually dollar. The town grew rapidly, with thousands of miners, and it is now one component of the World Heritage inscription for the Erzgebirge mining region, shared between the Czech Republic and Germany. Its later history is darker and stranger.
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Jáchymov Mining Landscape comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Marienberg Mining Town.
In 1521 Duke Heinrich of Saxony founded a new town in the Ore Mountains to house miners drawn by recent silver strikes, and he had it laid out on a regular grid around a huge square market place, following Renaissance ideas of the ideal city. Marienberg is the result, and its plan is still clearly visible, with straight streets, the town church, the Zschopau gate and a stretch of town wall. The town is part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, the cross-border World Heritage Site inscribed in 2019, which recognises eight hundred years of mining in these mountains.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Marienberg Mining Town. Next is Freiberg Mining Landscape.
Silver was found near Freiberg in 1168, and within a few decades the town had become one of the richest in Saxony. For eight centuries, miners dug ever deeper into the hills, and the wealth they brought up paid for churches, palaces and the splendours of Dresden. Freiberg's Bergakademie, founded in 1765, is the oldest mining university in the world still operating, and its mineral collection is one of the finest anywhere. The town and its mining landscape are part of the Erzgebirge mining region listed by UNESCO, shared between Germany and the Czech Republic.
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Freiberg Mining Landscape, about halfway. Next is Altenberg-Zinnwald Mining Landscape.
Altenberg lives with a hole in the ground, and is proud of it. The Pinge, a huge funnel of collapsed workings beside the town, opened up in 1620 when old tin mine tunnels caved in, and later collapses widened it into the crater you can look into today. Tin was the reason for everything here: the town grew around the mines in the fifteenth century, and the Zinnwald workings a few kilometres up the ridge, right on the Czech border, kept digging into modern times. The whole district is part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, a UNESCO listing shared between Saxony and Bohemia.
Read the complete Altenberg-Zinnwald Mining Landscape write-up.
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Altenberg-Zinnwald Mining Landscape sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Freiberg Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Freiberg Mining Landscape write-up.
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back through Freiberg Mining Landscape comes up about 223 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Marienberg Mining Town.
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Read the complete Marienberg Mining Town write-up.
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about 262 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Marienberg Mining Town. Next is back through Jáchymov Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Jáchymov Mining Landscape write-up.
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back through Jáchymov Mining Landscape, late in the day. Next is Eibenstock Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Eibenstock Mining Landscape write-up.
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The route ends here after 356 km.
Eibenstock Mining Landscape → Jáchymov Mining Landscape is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jáchymov Mining Landscape → Marienberg Mining Town is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Marienberg Mining Town → Freiberg Mining Landscape is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Freiberg Mining Landscape → Altenberg-Zinnwald Mining Landscape is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Altenberg-Zinnwald Mining Landscape → back through Freiberg Mining Landscape is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Freiberg Mining Landscape → back through Marienberg Mining Town is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Marienberg Mining Town → back through Jáchymov Mining Landscape is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jáchymov Mining Landscape → Eibenstock Mining Landscape is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.