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Start point of the German Volcano Route just before Station 1 with a view of the Laacher See

The German Volcano Route or, less commonly, German Volcano Road (Template:Lang-de) is a 280-kilometre-long tourist route from the River Rhine to the mountains of the High Eifel. It links 39 sites within the Geopark Vulkanland Eifel in the Volcanic Eifel (Vulkaneifel), at which geological, cultural-historical and industrial-historical nature and cultural monuments on the subject of volcanicity in the Eifel are located.

The project was carried out in 2008 in cooperation between the counties of Ahrweiler, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell, Mayen-Koblenz and Vulkaneifel. The choice of the 39 stations was made by the German Vulcanology Society (Deutsche Vulkanologische Gesellschaft, DVG).

Route

Station Name Image
Station 1 Car park at Erntekreuz with a view of the Laacher See
Station 2 Maria Laach Abbey, Glees
Station 3 Eppelsberg, cinder cone
Station 4 Roman mine, Meurin, near Kruft
Station 5 Rauschermühle information centre
Station 6 German Volcano Museum, Mendig – Lava Dome, Mendig
Station 7 Wingertsbergwand
Station 8 Mayener Grubenfeld
Station 9 Slip fold, Dachsbusch, Glees
Station 10 Devonian Terrace, Kurfürstenbrunnen well and Angelika Spring
Station 11 Trasshöhlen (caves)
Station 12 Bausenberg, horseshoe crater near Niederzissen
Station 13 Brohltal/Laacher See Volcano Park (Vulkanpark Brohltal/Laacher See) information centre in Niederzissen
Station 14 Tuff Rock Centre (Tuffsteinzentrum), Weibern
Station 15 Hohe Acht (746,9 m), highest mountain in the Eifel
Station 16 Stone quarry at Raustert
Station 17 Mosbrucher Weiher (pond)
Station 18 Ulmener Maar
Station 19 Volcano Platform, Steineberg
Station 20 Thermal springs and Käse Grotto (Käsegrotte), Bad Bertrich
Station 21 Immerather Maar (maar lake)
Station 22 Pulvermaar
Station 23 Volcano House, Strohn (Vulkanhaus Strohn)
Station 24 Holzmaar (maar lake)
Station 25 Dürres Maar and Hitsche Maar
Station 26 Weinfelder Maar
Station 27 Gemündener Maar
Station 28 Volcano Museum, Daun (Vulkanmuseum Daun)
Station 29 Dreiser Weiher
Station 30 Basalt intrusion, Arensberg
Station 31 Palagonite tuff ring and volcano garden, Steffeln
Station 32 Mühlstein Caves in the Rother Kopf (Eis)
Station 33 Papenkaule and Hagelskaule near Gerolstein
Station 34 Stone runs, Hundsbach valley
Station 35 Kaltwasser Geyser Wallender Born in Wallenborn
Station 36 Meerfelder Maar
Station 37 Mosenberg Reihenvulkan and Hinkelsmaar
Station 38 Maar Museum, Manderscheid
Station 39 Rock folds in the basement near Manderscheid

Literature

  • Overview map 1:100,000 series, State Office for Survey and Geobasis Information (Landesamt für Vermessung and Geobasisinformation) Rheinland-Pfalz, ISBN 3-89637-368-4
  • d´Hein: Nationaler Geopark Vulkanland Eifel. Ein Natur- and Kulturführer. Gaasterland-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2006, ISBN 3-935873-15-8
  • Wolfgang Blum, Wilhelm Meyer: Deutsche Vulkanstraße. Görres Verlag, Koblenz, 2006, ISBN 3-935690-53-3
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