Rondje Eifel - Moezel - Hunsruck - kastelen
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Last edit: 17-02-2022
Route Summary
The route starts in the beautiful town of Manderscheid. There is a nice road to the town of Daun. After Daun on good roads to the medieval town of Ulmen, you can visit a castle ruin. The roads are becoming winding and not much further you can visit two beautiful castles (Philipsburg and Lowenburg). After a few serious hairpin bends you reach the tourist town of Cochem and follow the Moselle to Treis Karden. There you cross the Moselle and you end up in the Hunsruck, calmer as the Eifel and just as beautiful. You will find wonderful curves here until you cross the Moselle at Bruttig-Fankel again. Again you follow a piece of the Moselle in the other direction and you end the route where you started, you still have sense and time, then visit the Oberburg and the Niederburg, Or skip them and order a huge beer. The choice is yours!
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Duration
5h 12m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
179.88 km
Countries
Vulkaan-Eifel
RouteXpert Review
It is always pleasant to drive in this area. The nice thing about this route is that you combine three areas in one route. And that makes the route nice and varied. A few castles are indicated as a stop in the route by yellow via points. More POIs have been added to the route, you can choose to use them as stops as well. You can download this route for free and without MyRoute-app registration by clicking on 'Use route' and on the next screen on 'Save as'. Of course I have completely checked the route and made it equal for TomTom, Garmin and MyRoute-app Navigation. Philipsburg
Cochem
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Hunsrück
About this region
The Hunsrück (German pronunciation: [ˈhʊnsʁʏk]) is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past the Rhine and by the Eifel past the Moselle. To the south of the Nahe is a lower, hilly country forming the near bulk of the Palatinate region and all of the, smaller, Saarland. Below its north-east corner is Koblenz.
As the Hunsrück proceeds east it acquires north-south width and three notable gaps in its southern ridges. In this zone are multi-branch headwaters including the Simmerbach ending at Simmertal on the southern edge. This interior is therefore rarely higher than 450 metres (1,480 ft) above sea level. Peaks and escarpments are principally: the (Black Forest) Hochwald, the Idar Forest, the Soonwald, and the Bingen Forest. The highest mountain is the Erbeskopf (816 m; 2,677 ft), towards the region's south-west.
Notable towns are Simmern, Kirchberg, and Idar-Oberstein, Kastellaun, and Morbach. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is at the centre of the upland, equidistant between Mainz, Trier and Koblenz, co-named after the village of Hahn.
Slate is still mined in the mountains. Since 2010, the region has become one of Germany's major onshore wind power regions. Large wind farms are near Ellern and Kirchberg. Nature-based tourism is widespread. In 2015, a new national park was inaugurated. The pedestrian Geierlay suspension bridge opened in the same year. The climate sees mists that rise most mornings. More rain than the German average is caused by a combination of an oceanic influence and relief precipitation.
Culturally, the region is best known for its Hunsrückisch dialect and through depictions in the Heimat film series. The region saw great emigration in the mid-19th century, particularly to Brazil.
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As the Hunsrück proceeds east it acquires north-south width and three notable gaps in its southern ridges. In this zone are multi-branch headwaters including the Simmerbach ending at Simmertal on the southern edge. This interior is therefore rarely higher than 450 metres (1,480 ft) above sea level. Peaks and escarpments are principally: the (Black Forest) Hochwald, the Idar Forest, the Soonwald, and the Bingen Forest. The highest mountain is the Erbeskopf (816 m; 2,677 ft), towards the region's south-west.
Notable towns are Simmern, Kirchberg, and Idar-Oberstein, Kastellaun, and Morbach. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is at the centre of the upland, equidistant between Mainz, Trier and Koblenz, co-named after the village of Hahn.
Slate is still mined in the mountains. Since 2010, the region has become one of Germany's major onshore wind power regions. Large wind farms are near Ellern and Kirchberg. Nature-based tourism is widespread. In 2015, a new national park was inaugurated. The pedestrian Geierlay suspension bridge opened in the same year. The climate sees mists that rise most mornings. More rain than the German average is caused by a combination of an oceanic influence and relief precipitation.
Culturally, the region is best known for its Hunsrückisch dialect and through depictions in the Heimat film series. The region saw great emigration in the mid-19th century, particularly to Brazil.
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