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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212 km from Zschorlau to Zschorlau, about 4 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, Rother Berg Mining Landscape, Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin and Mědník Hill Mining Landscape. It crosses from Germany into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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 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 33 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Rother Berg Mining Landscape. Next is Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin.
Boží Dar claims to be the highest town in the Czech Republic, at about a thousand metres on the ridge of the Ore Mountains, and it has the climate to prove it: long winters, deep snow, and a cool, damp feel even in summer. The name means God's Gift, and the settlement was founded in the sixteenth century by miners who came after silver was found on the slopes. Abertamy, Horní Blatná and Mining Landscape are all part of the same story, a string of hill villages that grew up around the mines.
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Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin, about halfway. 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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Mědník Hill Mining Landscape sits at 88 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin.
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back through Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin comes up about 130 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape.
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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape. Next is back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region.
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back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region, late in the day. Next is Schindlers Werk Smalt Works.
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The route ends here after 212 km.
Schindlers Werk Smalt Works → Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → Rother Berg Mining Landscape is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rother Berg Mining Landscape → Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin → Mědník Hill Mining Landscape is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mědník Hill Mining Landscape → back through Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abertamy - Boží Dar - Horní Blatná - Minin → back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape → back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → Schindlers Werk Smalt Works is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.