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Regionalverband Saarbrücken

Burning Mountain

Natural Monuments

Regionalverband Saarbrücken

Sulzbach/Saar

Burning Mountain

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Burning Mountain

Recommended by 50 cyclists out of 52

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Location: Sulzbach/Saar, Regionalverband Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

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1. Netzbach Pond – Saar Cycle Route loop from Sulzbach (Saar)

41.7km

02:40

360m

Hard bike ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route.

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2. Netzbach Pond – View of the Saar loop from Quierschied

31.8km

02:07

320m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Würzbacher Pond – View of the Würzbacher Pond loop from Sulzbach (Saar)

34.9km

02:28

490m

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Rudi

April 23, 2017

Here the mountain is burning, in the truest sense of the word

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Murmel

April 1, 2020

Text information sign (extract):
“[…] According to historical sources, a coal seam in the Burning Mountain caught fire in 1688. Shepherds who started a fire near the seam were originally blamed for the fire. However, it is more likely that the seam was ignited in the course of the mining work by the open fire of a miner's lamp. […] Later attempts to control the fire and keep it going also proved unsuccessful. […]
The clay slate, which was abundant in the soil, was subjected to a roasting process by the fire. The basis for the extraction of ala was given. It was drained of slate by downpours, groundwater and later on-site water. Potassium alum and iron vitriol were obtained from the lye in nearby alum huts. These products formed valuable raw materials for medicine, for paper manufacture, for tannery and as a stain for dyeing textiles (laundry blue, Prussian blue). Already in 1691 a sovereign concession for the extraction of alum was granted.
At times, three alum huts worked in Dudweiler and Sulzbach, until the slate stocks were essentially exhausted by the middle of the 19th century. […] "

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andre

August 8, 2021

Also a piece of industrial culture ... in the middle of the forest. Short single trail.

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Elevation 380 m

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Location: Sulzbach/Saar, Regionalverband Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

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Burning Mountain

1. Netzbach Pond – Saar Cycle Route loop from Sulzbach (Saar)

2. Netzbach Pond – View of the Saar loop from Quierschied

3. Würzbacher Pond – View of the Würzbacher Pond loop from Sulzbach (Saar)

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