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 Zschorlau it runs 303 km to Zschorlau; allow about 5 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape, Mědník Hill Mining Landscape, Rother Berg Mining Landscape and Lauta Mining Landscape. It crosses from Germany into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
In the Erzgebirge, the Ore Mountains of Saxony, a handful of workshops once produced a colour that conquered Europe. Schindlers Werk, at Zschorlau near Aue, was a smalt works, where cobalt ore from the surrounding mines was ground, roasted and fused with sand and potash into a deep blue glass, then milled into pigment. Smalt coloured Dutch tiles, German porcelain and painters' blues, and Saxony held an almost complete monopoly on it for generations. The works was founded in the seventeenth century and has been preserved as a museum.
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Schindlers Werk Smalt Works 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 32 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 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Mědník Hill Mining Landscape. Next is Rother Berg Mining Landscape.
Schwarzenberg, in the western Erzgebirge, is a town of steep streets, slate roofs and a castle and church perched on a rock above the Schwarzwasser river, and the hills around it are riddled with old mine workings. The Rother Berg, the red mountain, takes its name from the iron ore that colours its soil, and it is one of the components of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, the cross-border UNESCO site listed in 2019. For eight centuries, miners in these mountains dug for silver, tin, iron, cobalt and later uranium, and their work shaped not only the landscape but the culture of the whole region.
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Rother Berg Mining Landscape, about halfway. Next is 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.
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Lauta Mining Landscape sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape.
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back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape comes up about 192 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape.
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about 231 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape. Next is back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape.
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back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape, late in the day. Next is Schindlers Werk Smalt Works.
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The route ends here after 303 km.
Schindlers Werk Smalt Works → Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → Rother Berg Mining Landscape is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rother Berg Mining Landscape → Lauta Mining Landscape is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lauta Mining Landscape → back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape → back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Schindlers Werk Smalt Works is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.