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 187 km round trip from Eibenstock - roughly 3 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, Mědník Hill Mining Landscape, Marienberg Mining Town and back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape. 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.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Mědník Hill Mining Landscape. 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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Marienberg Mining Town, 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 sits at 118 km, 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 comes up about 158 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eibenstock Mining Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eibenstock Mining Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Eibenstock Mining Landscape closes the day.
Eibenstock Mining Landscape → Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → Marienberg Mining Town is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Marienberg Mining Town → back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → Eibenstock Mining Landscape is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.