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 301 km round trip from Karlovy Vary - roughly 5 h 08 in the saddle. On the way it passes Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape, Dippoldiswalde Medieval Silver Mines and back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape. It crosses from Czechia into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Legend has it that Emperor Charles IV was out hunting in the forests of western Bohemia in the fourteenth century when a stag he was chasing, or in some versions one of his hounds, fell into a pool of scalding water, and that is how the hot springs of Karlovy Vary were found. Whatever the truth, the town that grew up around them bears his name, Karlsbad in German, and by the nineteenth century it had become one of the most fashionable spas in Europe, visited by tsars, composers, poets and the cream of European society. In 2021, it became part of the UNESCO listing of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.
Read the complete Karlovy Vary write-up.
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Karlovy Vary is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dippoldiswalde Medieval Silver Mines.
In 2008, when parts of the old town of Dippoldiswalde began to subside, engineers investigating the problem found something nobody expected: a network of medieval silver mines running beneath the streets, dating back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The tunnels contained remarkably well preserved wooden ladders, tools and even shoes, offering an unparalleled glimpse of mining at the start of the Ore Mountains' silver boom. These finds are part of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region listed by UNESCO in 2019.
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about 148 km into the recorded legs you reach Dippoldiswalde Medieval Silver Mines. Next is back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape, late in the day. Next is Karlovy Vary.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Karlovy Vary write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Karlovy Vary. That is the ride.
Karlovy Vary → Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Dippoldiswalde Medieval Silver Mines is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dippoldiswalde Medieval Silver Mines → back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Karlovy Vary is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.