Roundtrip Schwalbach Assenoncourt Lorraine
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Last edit: 22-12-2020
Route Summary
Beautiful tour on the border of France and Germany on winding roads along streams and rivers. The route takes you to the Lorraine (Lorraine). A route through an area where many remains of the First and Second World War can be found and where the French and German influences have become mixed by changes in the border. Also many reservoirs with fishing possibilities and at the beginning even two museums for mining. The roads are generally of good quality. Start and finish at Hotel Mühlenthal in Schwalbach near Saarlouis. This is a pleasant family hotel on a quiet street with a nice view, horse stables and a beautiful garden. In the immediate vicinity of the hotel you will find a few bakeries and a pizzeria. The hotel itself has a restaurant. I myself drove this route in 2017. The original is by Johan Baars.
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Duration
5h 22m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
247.51 km
Countries
Lorraine (Lotharingen)
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The route starts at the Mühlenthal hotel in Schwalbach near Saarlouis. You leave for Saarlouis, then drive outside to Völklingen where you can visit a cemetery for soldiers who died in the Second World War (RP3). In Völklingen, an old iron smelter has also been converted into the Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte cultural center. Nice to walk through. If you want to see everything, just take a day for it, that's how big it is. Then you cross the Saar. You will now pass two mining museums: Erlebnisbergwerk Velsen (RP6) in Germany and just across the border in France Les Mineurs Wendel (RP7). Choose 1 (for example whether your German or your French is better) and take a look. The German is more of an amusement park, the French is more authentic. Subsequently, the forests, rural areas, villages and more industrial areas alternate quickly. At Hambach you can visit the Smart factory (RP13). You will arrive in Sarralbe, where the Ligne Maginot Aquatique can be viewed in the museum, when it is open (RP17). A great place also for a coffee stop and to take a look at the town with a beautiful church.
Enjoy the beautiful roads that you are now going to drive. Enjoy swinging and swaying along forests, grain fields, over bridges and along streams. After which you arrive in Mittersheim. Here you can drive along the reservoir. The route takes you along it. You do drive a round through Mittersheim because it has a piece of one-way traffic.
Then you drive through forests and along (reservoir) lakes into the Lorraine. After some time you come to the Col des Français, where you cross a canal (RP25). Further on you can visit the lock Grande Ecluse de Réchicourt (RP26). This lock has a high drop. It replaced 6 locks with a lower drop. This resulted in a time saving of more than 5 hours. RP28 has a snack bar. What you get there you can eat a little further on the reservoir. A wonderfully quiet spot for lunch, on the reservoir (RP29). At Morhange you can refuel if necessary (RP35).
At Laudrefang you will find many remnants of the Ligne Maginot, hidden in the landscape (RP40). At Karlsbrunn you can have a drink in the Biergarten im Jagdschloss Karlsbrunn (RP45). Just beyond it is a large solar park (RP46). After this you will go back to Saarlouis, Schwalbach and the hotel via some villages.
I drove this route myself in 2017.
I give this route 4 stars. It is again a very varied route with a number of nice sights and beautiful roads.
Ligne Maginot
Grande Ecluse de Réchicourt (foto: GerhardNL)
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The Saarland (, US also , German: [ˈzaːɐ̯lant] (listen); French: Sarre [saʁ]) is a state of Germany in the west of the country. With an area of 2,570 km2 (990 sq mi) and population of 995,600 in 2015, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and also Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities include Neunkirchen and Saarlouis. Saarland is mainly surrounded by the department of Moselle (Grand Est) in France to the west and south and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany to the north and east; it also shares a small border about 8 kilometres (5 miles) long with the canton of Remich in Luxembourg to the northwest.
Saarland was established in 1920 after World War I as the Territory of the Saar Basin, occupied and governed by France under a League of Nations mandate. The heavily industrialized region was economically valuable, due to the wealth of its coal deposits and location on the border between France and Germany. Saarland was returned to Nazi Germany in the 1935 Saar status referendum. Following World War II, the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany organized the territory as the Saar Protectorate on 16 February 1946. After the 1955 Saar Statute referendum, it joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a state on 1 January 1957. Saarland used its own currency, the Saar franc, and postage stamps issued specially for the territory until 1959.
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Saarland was established in 1920 after World War I as the Territory of the Saar Basin, occupied and governed by France under a League of Nations mandate. The heavily industrialized region was economically valuable, due to the wealth of its coal deposits and location on the border between France and Germany. Saarland was returned to Nazi Germany in the 1935 Saar status referendum. Following World War II, the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany organized the territory as the Saar Protectorate on 16 February 1946. After the 1955 Saar Statute referendum, it joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a state on 1 January 1957. Saarland used its own currency, the Saar franc, and postage stamps issued specially for the territory until 1959.
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