Visit to the Rhein and Andernach out of Burgbrohl Roundtour Small
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Last edit: 01-02-2025
Route Summary It is a super nice fun tour, simple and very nice to ride, where you also get the chance to admire the Rhine in all its glory.
It is precisely because of its simple and playful character that this route easily deserves 4 stars.
Everyone will appreciate the route, although the technical guys might want it a bit more challenging...
But as a relaxing ride in between, this is definitely recommended and suitable for everyone!
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6h 58m
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153.49 km
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RouteXpert Review Quite soon after the start you pass the Laacher See, but because of the vegetation you probably won't see that much of it. However, you will notice from the rapid descent that you are quickly approaching the Rhine valley.
At Andernach, one of the oldest cities in Germany, we meet the Rhine.
Andernach itself was founded in 12 BC by the Romans on the foundations of an old Celtic village. If you like, there are a number of nice things to see in Andernach…
One of the attractions from the old industrial past is the "Old Crane" of Andernach, a 16th century stone treadmill tower crane with a diameter of 8.8 and a height of 9.4 meters. The crane is located just outside the city, close to the shore of the old harbor, where it replaced an even older 14th century wooden floating treadmill crane.
It was in operation for 350 years, from 1561 to 1911. It took two to four men to turn the crane top using a huge lever attached to the vertical wooden crane beam, and four others (the treadmill men…) on huge wooden double treadmills with a diameter of over 4.3 metres.
These men were responsible for lifting and lowering cargo, mainly millstones, blocks of peat stone and wine barrels. This treadmill crane with stone walls (most cranes had a wooden casing) is one of the few examples of its kind preserved in Europe.
The other local attraction is the Andernach Geyser.
This is a so-called cold water geyser and the one in Andernach is even the highest in the world.
The principle of the cold water geyser is as follows…
CO2, originating from the magma deep below the Eifel, creeps through all sorts of fissures, cracks and holes in the volcanic rock into the groundwater and dissolves in it. Every cold-water geyser, unlike hot-water geysers, needs a borehole. The Andernach borehole is 350 metres deep and barely 15 cm in diameter.
When there is little water in the well, the pressure in the water is low and little happens. The gas escapes easily from the water, rises and remains above the well.
However, when the well fills up, the water pressure at a depth of 350 metres rises to 35 bar. This high pressure keeps the CO2 locked in the water.
At a certain point, however, the water is saturated and CO2 bubbles form in the water that want to rise. As they do this, not only does the speed increase, but also the volume due to the snowball effect.
This increasing volume creates even more pressure in the water and the well begins to overflow. The pressure then drops again and the CO2 can escape again. A domino effect then ensures that the pressure and the force that the CO2 exerts on the water are reinforced again and again. Due to the small diameter of the borehole, the rising CO2 bubbles are sometimes 10 to 15 meters long and they form a piston that pushes the overlying water upwards so that an eruption follows that lasts about 15 minutes and spews the mass of about 8000 liters of water up to 60 meters high. The geyser empties itself, the pressure decreases further, the geyser stops and the process starts all over again... Every two hours or so there is an eruption that lasts about 15 minutes.
After a possible visit to Andernach and some of its attractions, we continue our route and cross the Rhine at Weisenthurm and enter Rhineland-Palatinate. We leave the main road again quite quickly to arrive at a particularly smooth, winding road that takes us through this part of the Rhineland at lightning speed. There seems to be no end to the serpentine of long, playful bends that are also provided with wonderfully smooth asphalt.
I can imagine that there are motorcyclists who would like to continue like this forever….
Unfortunately, this particular pleasure comes to an end at Wollendorf… Here you reach the other bank of the Rhine and at Leutesdorf you can enjoy the beauty of the Rhine for a short break. Afterwards, the ferry from Bad Breisig-Bad Hönningen is taken to return to the Eifel region. 10 kilometers later you end up at the hotel where you started.
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Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz, [ˈʁaɪ̯nlant ˈp͡falt͡s] (listen)) is a western state of Germany. It covers 19,846 km2 (7,663 sq mi) and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern and Worms. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by the countries France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland province), Hesse and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the latter was returned to German control in 1957. Rhineland-Palatinate's natural and cultural heritage includes the extensive Palatinate winegrowing region, picturesque landscapes, and many castles and palaces.
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Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland province), Hesse and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the latter was returned to German control in 1957. Rhineland-Palatinate's natural and cultural heritage includes the extensive Palatinate winegrowing region, picturesque landscapes, and many castles and palaces.
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The northernmost part is called the Nordeifel, which in Belgium connects to the High Fens;
To the east of this is the Ahrgebirge, this part is located north of the Ahr in the Ahrweiler district;
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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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In the south, the Eifel ends in the Voreifel.
In the north of the Eifel there are some large reservoirs. The largest of these is the reservoir in the Roer that was created by the construction of the Roerdal dam.
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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