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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175 km from Schneeberg to Schneeberg, about 3 h 28 of riding. The stops in between: Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape, Rother Berg Mining Landscape, Jáchymov Mining Landscape and back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape. It crosses from Germany into Czechia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Schneeberg is a mining town high in the Erzgebirge, the Ore Mountains, which divide Saxony from Bohemia, and its history is written in silver, cobalt and uranium. A silver rush in the late fifteenth century made the town rich, and the church of St. Wolfgang, a huge Gothic hall church with a Cranach altarpiece, was the proud result. Later the miners found cobalt, which was used to colour glass and porcelain a deep blue, and Saxony became the world's main supplier of that pigment. In the twentieth century came the Wismut company, a Soviet-German enterprise that mined uranium on a massive scale in the nearby valleys, leaving scars and also the radon spa at Bad Schlema. UNESCO listed the Erzgebirge mining region, including Schneeberg, in 2019.
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Schneeberg Mining Landscape 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 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 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Rother Berg Mining Landscape. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Rother Berg Mining Landscape write-up.
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back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape.
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Read the complete Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape write-up.
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back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schneeberg Mining Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schneeberg Mining Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Schneeberg Mining Landscape closes the day.
Schneeberg Mining Landscape → Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Rother Berg Mining Landscape is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rother Berg Mining Landscape → Jáchymov Mining Landscape is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jáchymov Mining Landscape → back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rother Berg Mining Landscape → back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Landscape → Schneeberg Mining Landscape is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.