Ahrbrueck Ulmen Manderscheid
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Last edit: 27-07-2023
Route Summary Start: Café Ahrwind
End: Café Fahrtwind
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8h 20m
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Car or motorcycle
Distance
292.94 km
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RouteXpert Review You are in the Eifel, which also means hills of course and you notice immediately after departure that you are already well behind the wheel. You reach the Rhine via tiny villages such as Königsfeld and Ramersbach. The mighty river of no less than 1233 km, starting in Switzerland and flowing into the North Sea via Germany and the Netherlands. If you are lucky you may also see the narrow gauge railway that is still used as freight transport. The one-metre-gauge train has only a tourist and historical use.
You don't have that much time today and you only briefly follow the Rhine, although you can hardly suppress the slow humming of “yes, a trip along the Rhine, Rhine, Rhine…”. You will soon turn towards Laacher See. The Laacher See is a so-called water-filled caldera. With 3.3 km² it is one of the largest volcanic lakes in the Eifel. By the way, there is still seismic activity… you never know…
However, do not panic and continue on your way. At the Waldsee you turn onto the grounds of the Eifeler Seehütte and your first stop for today is a fact.
Still enjoying the beautiful view from the terrace, you start your engine and continue on your way. You first drive through the valley of the Arfter Bach, just before Langenfeld you go up the mountain and you can show your steering skills. You make a large circumferential movement and swing through the Eifel. Bend after bend, or better Kurve nach Kurve, the kilometers creep on your counter. After a few serious hairpin bends at Virneburg you are already at a third of your total ride. Gosh, that's going fast!
After the hairpin bends of Virneburg, the many bends are done for a while when you enter the B410. But rest assured it won't take too long. In any case, the environment remains beautiful! Just past Lind you leave the Bundesstraße and whirl south. You ascend on this route to about 500 meters, which is already high for the Eifel. If you look back, you will see the Hohe Acht, which is 747 meters above sea level, on which the Kaiser-Wilhelm Turm is built. Wherever you are in the Eifel, you will see this tower very often and is therefore an excellent target. You give your motorcycle one more run, but before you know it you've arrived in Ulmen. Ulmen is a double party for you. In Ulmen you can enjoy a short break in the Bürgestube and once you are saddled up, you drive past the next watery object: the Ulmer Maar. This is one of the youngest volcanic lakes and is only 10,900 years old. So really young…
You climb slowly in the hilly landscape until you suddenly get a few sharp bends down. And suddenly the Moselle appears there. The Moselle originated in France and then flows through Luxembourg and Germany to eventually add its water to that of the Rhine. You also only follow the Moselle for a short time, it is also only a short watery introduction. At Alf you turn off and you have your next stop at Bömers Mosellandhotel. An excellent location to feed the hungry biker.
After dinner you drive for fifteen minutes and now it is the turn of the motorcycle. In Lutzerath, you can top it up at the ED.
Man and machine are now filled and more discoveries await. On your always winding road you will find many more maars. First of all, the Pulvermaar, which has a deep blue color and is very popular. Then the relatively small Holzmaar of 68 ha. This lake is mainly used for research. Just after beautiful Manderscheid, it is time to get off at Meerfelder and take a picture. This volcanic lake is a bit older. But still quite fit with 80,000 years.
You meander through the Eifel again and just after Schutz you take a few nice hairpins and a little later you arrive at the next stop. You can not only enjoy a refreshment in Café Maarblick, but from the terrace you also have a fantastic view of the oldest Dauner volcanic lake: Schalkenmehrener Maar. This but consists of a flooded part and a dry part. The next of the Dauner maars are the Weinfeldermaar, which is the highest at 487 meters (the top eventually measures 561 meters) and the Gemündener Maar which is the northernmost and the smallest. Yet at 39 meters it is the deepest!
You drive through Daun and you are in the middle Eifel. You drive north on a higher plateau. Note: on the L10 the road suddenly turns sharply to the right. If you miss this road, you can turn right again a few 10 meters further. Many motorcyclists are familiar with the very large and wide hairpin bends that you now have in front of you. Near the village of Ahrdorf you cross the Ahr. Until the end of the route you follow, except for a short distance, the valley of the Ahr. The Ahr region attracts many millions of people every year because of its incredible beauty and the many picturesque wine villages such as Altenahr, Mayschoß, Ahrweiler, etc. Until that disastrous 21st June 2021. In a few hours the Ahr had to endure so much water that on some the water level had risen by 7 meters. Unfortunately, it has claimed many fatalities and has caused unprecedented damage to nature, culture and history. The images you see along the way are silent witnesses to the incredible magnitude of the disaster.
Now they are busy redesigning and rebuilding the Eifel. But don't let that discourage you (in fact people have been helped a lot with a large amount of tourists), it is and still remains a fantastic valley through which you drive. Yet you quickly make a trip via Rodder to arrive at one of the "secret circuits" after Rodder.
Enjoy the many bends in front of you that follow the course of the Ahr. In Dümpelfeld you take the Bundesstraße and you will soon reach your end point: Café Fahrtwind.
You order an old-fashioned Milchkaffee, sit down and realize: gosh, this was another instructive MRA day.
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North Rhine-Westphalia was established in 1946 after World War II from the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and the northern part of Rhine Province (North Rhine), and the Free State of Lippe by the British military administration in Allied-occupied Germany and became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. The city of Bonn served as the federal capital until the reunification of Germany in 1990 and as the seat of government until 1999.
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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).
The southern part of the Eifel is less high. The area is bisected by streams and rivers running southwards. These streams flow into the Moselle. The largest of these rivers is the Kyll; the hills around this river are known as the Kyllwald;
In the south, the Eifel ends in the Voreifel.
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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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