Dasburg Kautenbach Hairpins Eifel 4
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Last edit: 27-07-2023
Route Summary
Now edition 4 of the most beautiful curves and hairpins in the Eifel. Admittedly, you make a trip to the oh so beautiful Luxembourg and further you "walk" a lot on the edge. Your starting point is the hotel Daytona in Dasburg, which is known by many. For the route, just cross the border (1 km) to start with a full tank of cheap Luxembourg petrol.Because of the many curves, the different roads and the constantly changing landscape, this route gets 5 stars!
Start: Hotel Daytona Dasburg
End: Hotel Daytona Dasburg
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Duration
7h 49m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
308.12 km
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Hotel la Rive
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After 3 previous editions have been published, now version 4 of the bends and hairpins in the Eifel. In this edition more than 30 different curve combinations and hairpins. Some more extreme than others (yes, yes, by popular demand via the "Mini Stelvio"), but all in all a great ride of about 300 km.You depart from Hotel Daytona in Dasburg. If your tank is not completely full, go past the ruins of Dasburg to the Q8 gas station, located 1 km in Luxembourg. There you can fill your tank to the brim.
From the hotel you turn left, into the Eifel and not towards Luxembourg. Agreed, that will certainly be discussed later!
You don't have much time to wake up. After about 5 kilometers the thunder starts and you have to hit the sides of your tires while you rock through the southwestern part of the Eifel. This part of the Eifel is not generally known to motorcyclists. Most have a preference for the slightly northern part around the Rurstausee or they prefer to go a little deeper into the Eifel towards the Nürburgring. There is an enormous history from the 2nd world war, because there was a lot of hard fighting here. There are also no wide rivers running through this part, so you search almost in vain for castles and those castles that are there are mostly ruins (partly because of WWII). What are you doing here, you may ask. Well... riding a motorbike of course, because you can do that very well here!
Before you have your first cup of coffee and cake at Konditorei Wallerius, you have already completed 7 curves. You can also go to the side for half an hour. You have now driven mainly in an east-southeast direction.
In principle, after the coffee break, you drive back, only via a different road.
after more than half an hour we will send you off the motorcycle once to view a part of the German Siegfried Line or Westwall. These well-preserved concrete shark teeth were part of the 630 km long defensive line. There is a lot of information about this defense on various places on the internet. You now move on to the next goal: where are you going to have lunch! After the foray into history, you have already arrived near the border of Germany and Belgium. Yet you have lunch just over the border in Germany. Hotel zur alten Mühle is an idyllically located hotel restaurant, where you will certainly enjoy yourself in culinary terms.
Eat well, but not too much, because that will only make you drowsy. And you don't want that on the trajectory that's to come. From the hotel you still make a sharp winding, with the necessary bends and hairpins, to arrive at the three-country point Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg. A monument was placed here in 1977 to commemorate 20 years of the European Community. Here you cross the border to Luxembourg. You steer a bit over the N7 to take the small steering roads again in Weiswampach. In Clervaux you drive around the castle, which is located in the middle of the village. You can take a beautiful picture of the city and the castle on a somewhat higher part. A little further down in Wiltz you can refresh your thirsty machine and yourself. One at the Gulf, the other at Restaurant am Schlass. You are now in close proximity to Chateau Wilt, which is definitely worth a visit.
After coffee you can go a little further, if the tower is open. take fantastic photos of the area from the Monument de la Grève. A monument in memory of those executed after the strike in 1942. You drive on and after about 6 km you get a taste of the "Mini Stelvio". A little later you dive down at Kautenbach via a number of unadulterated hairpin bends. The route continues by turning left at the end of the road towards Vianden.
But... you can of course also turn around, take the hairpin bends uphill, take the road in the opposite direction and at the end of the road (at Merkholtz) turn left to Kautenbach and then take the route again from this point. It's just an idea...
Whatever you do, you continue your way south to Ettelbrück. Here one has to be careful, because, when making the route, the situation in Ettelbrück, near the General Patton Museum, is unclear. You should in any case follow the direction of Erpeldange. You follow the river Sauer and stop at the beautifully situated restaurant La Rive.
After the break you pick up the thread again along the Sauer, but make the crossing to another river: the Our. Just before the Our you have a nice overview of the Luxembourg landscape at the "Putscheid Kiosque".
You follow the Our and if you have refueled at the Q8 this morning you will probably think "Ah, we are already there". Well, we're going to do another round of things. Via a land parcelling road to the north, you arrive at Kalborn, where you cross the border for the last time. Via various hairpins you eventually come back to Hotel Daytona. Tired but satisfied ordering your beer. Man oh man, what a typical MRA route that was.
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Over the centuries, the City and Fortress of Luxembourg, of great strategic importance situated between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg territories, was gradually built up to be one of the most reputed fortifications in Europe. After belonging to both the France of Louis XIV and the Austria of Maria Theresa, Luxembourg became part of the First French Republic and Empire under Napoleon.The present-day state of Luxembourg first emerged at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The Grand Duchy, with its powerful fortress, became an independent state under the personal possession of William I of the Netherlands with a Prussian garrison to guard the city against another invasion from France. In 1839, following the turmoil of the Belgian Revolution, the purely French-speaking part of Luxembourg was ceded to Belgium and the Luxembourgish-speaking part (except the Arelerland, the area around Arlon) became what is the present state of Luxembourg.Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, OECD, United Nations, NATO, and Benelux. The city of Luxembourg, which is the country's capital and largest city, is the seat of several institutions and agencies of the EU. Luxembourg served on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2013 and 2014, which was a first in the country's history. As of 2020, Luxembourg citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 187 countries and territories, ranking the Luxembourgish passport fifth in the world, tied with Denmark and Spain.
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