Heimborn Braunfels Isenburg
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Last edit: 27-07-2023
Route Summary You depart from Boele's Place for a fantastic ride past many ruins and castles. This is sufficiently available here due to the river Lahn. A short visit is also made to "Dutch" historiography. You end up where you started.
Because of the varying character of the route with many views, old buildings and also a lot of culture, I give 5 stars.
Start: Boele's Place Heimborn-Ehrlich
End Boele's Place Heimborn-Ehrlich
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8h 23m
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Car or motorcycle
Distance
279.60 km
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RouteXpert Review Your departure and arrival point is Boele's Place in Heimborn, where Jan and Annemarie make the area unsafe.
From their hideaway you leave in a southerly direction. Soon you will see the first interesting objects. In Hachenburg first see Schloß Hachenburg. If you drive past it, you will notice what an insanely large building this is. the castle, dating from 1200, now serves as a university. But Hachenburg has even more to offer. A little further on you will find the Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald on the left. If you have ever been to Orvelte in Drenthe, you can compare this with it: in this reconstructed village you can see how people have lived in the Westerwald in the past 300 years. A visit to this village is highly recommended. However, you go further, because there are almost 300 kilometers to cover today.
If you have already driven a lot in the Eifel, you will notice that the landscape is more rolling.
After approx. 40 kilometers, just after the viewpoint at the Ketzerstein, the aforementioned 3-country point is on the left. However, a walk is not included in this trip, so you continue driving. You wind through the area until you arrive in Greifenstein. A stop is included in the route here, but also one with a beautiful view over the Dill. This river originates from the Lahn and is the namesake of Dillenburg. Hey wait a minute, is that the Dillenburg… precisely the one where Willem van Oranje was born. Promise, I'm going to take that story in a different route. Here at the Berghütte Dillblick you can reminisce about the times of yesteryear.
After coffee you get on your steel steed and drive on.
Not much further you will find another building that has a lot to do with Dutch history. After all, Amalia van Solms lived in Braunfels. Who doesn't know her… as the wife of Frederik Hendrik van Oranje and who… is precisely the son of… It's nice that a piece of the Netherlands is preserved in this way by foreigners. Braunfels Castle is definitely worth a visit. The castle is a village in itself with a market square, café, museum, etc.
You drive further in the direction and a little later another beautiful building comes on your path: Burgruine Freienfels. This half-decayed castle serves as the setting for the knight games that are continuously organized here. And if that is not enough, you will find another immense castle in Weilburg. However, before that you park on the right side to enjoy lunch in the Altes aRthaus (no not misspelled).
After lunch you can take a look at the adjacent castle garden, the Obere Orangerie. Then you continue your way again, winding through the Westerwald. Because let me be clear, there is an incredible amount to see here, but priority number 1 is definitely motorcycling. And that works here, fantastic!
After you have been able to refuel, the ride continues towards the Rhine. Direction, you can at most see it flowing from the higher parts. On the route there is a very nice beer garden (the Dutch would call it a terrace, Germans associate it directly with beer), where you can take a short break.
With a small d-tour near the ruins of Isterburg, it's a mile-long feast of twists, turns, and turns. It is now gradually time to send Jan and Annemarie an app that they can put the beer cold.
And when you turn back onto the grounds of Boele's Place, out of the corner of your eye you see a cold golden yellow rascal waiting for you. This is also how you turn your day into an MRA day.
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To the west, near the Belgian border, the hills are known as Schneifel, part of the wider Snow Eifel area with peaks reaching up to 698 metres;
South and east of the Hohe Eifel is the Volcano-Eifel, a volcanic area with many crater lakes (Maare).
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The Nürburgring is also located in the Eifel, a well-known car circuit for Formula 1 races, among other things. Since 2004, part of the north of the Eifel has become the Eifel National Park. This National Park falls entirely within the German-Belgian nature park High Fens-Eifel. Another part of the Eifel falls within the South Eifel Nature Park.
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