Roundtrip Saarlouis Idar Oberstein
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Last edit: 14-04-2021
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5h 12m
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273.39 km
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RouteXpert Review What can you see along this route:
RP 3 Saarlouis. This fortified city was founded in 1680 by King Louis XIV. There are still many remains of the fortress to be seen.
RP 5 Ruins of Siersburg castle
RP 8 Keuchingen has a lot to see. A ceramic museum, a castle and tower and a nice center. Everything on the edge of the river Saar.
RP 9 Viewpoint
RP11 Ruins of Grimburg castle
RP12 Museum about Grimburg castle and witches.
RP13 Museum with steam locomotives
RP14 Museum about the fire brigade
RP16 Nice to visit is the Celtic wall with a recreated Celtic village next to it. There is also a viewpoint over the reservoir of Nonnweiler nearby.
RP17 Just beyond the Celtic wall you can visit a blacksmith's shop: Züscher Hammer. Powered by hydropower.
RP18 An airplane museum with many jet planes, including a Concorde and a De Havilland Comet.
RP20 In Morbach you can stop for coffee or lunch. There you can also visit two museums: a museum about telephones and a museum about woodworking.
RP21 Herrstein is a small old village with a castle, clock tower and many half-timbered houses. Worth walking through.
RP22 The airport of Idar-Oberstein. Small but fun and with gliders. And you can have lunch there. At RP23 is another lunch restaurant.
RP24 Idar-Oberstein with the gemstone museum. This is the gem center of Germany. Lots of shops and restaurants. Enough to experience for a stop.
RP25 Castle ruin Frauenberg.
RP29 An airport with gliders. Or visit the town of Marpingen and have a drink there.
RP30, 33, 34 There are many religious caves in this area, such as the Lourdes Grotto in Dirmingen (RP30), the Espen Grotto (RP33) in Giesenbach and the Marien Grotte (RP34) in Schwarzenholz.
This route gets 4 stars from me. There is a lot to do, the surroundings are beautiful and the roads are good.
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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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