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Green Belt – Kolonnenweg X5

Natural Monuments

Green Belt – Kolonnenweg X5

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Green Belt – Kolonnenweg X5

Recommended by 82 mountain bikers out of 85

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Location: Pfaffschwende, Landkreis Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Germany

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1. Wolfstisch Viewpoint – View of Schloss Rothestein loop from Eschwege

35.9km

02:41

560m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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2. Salzfrau Viewpoint – Wolfstisch Viewpoint loop from Eschwege

24.9km

01:51

430m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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3. View of Kella from Grenzeck – Teufelskanzel Singletrail loop from Eschwege

61.7km

05:01

960m

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike.

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Holzi

August 25, 2020

Here you drive onto the green belt with the Kolonnenweg. This green ribbon runs through the whole of Germany and at that time was the border between West and East Germany. Now protected as a nature reserve, for almost forty years it was 1,393 kilometers long and part of the Iron Curtain that divided Europe into two blocks.
It was a great experience to ride a bike here and let the impressions that you can still get today have an effect on you. Madness.
As a visitor to the Green Belt, one is reminded that “people were killed on the former border, families and friends were separated, residents were forcibly evacuated and spied upon, and that many border guards could not withstand internal pressure and chose suicide”.
In my opinion it's just a shame that here and there a few meters of the border fence or other objects from that time have not been preserved. That would certainly have had a higher "warning thought" at the time.
Otherwise everything is very impressive.

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CarKes

August 25, 2020

Nice route, just be careful with the slab path

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Daniela - danik145

November 15, 2023

The Green Belt Germany is the first all-German nature conservation project: It was launched on the initiative of the BUND Nature Conservation in Bavaria e. V. was founded shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution on December 9, 1989.
It refers to the strip of terrain between the former inner German border and the border fortifications on the eastern side. The 1,393 km long and 50-200 m wide strip of land is intended to remain a green belt or become one again. The strip of terrain extends from Travemünde to the border triangle near Hof. The Green Belt is the largest biotope network in Germany. More than 1,200 animal and plant species that are threatened in Germany are found on its lands with over 150 nature reserves.

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Location: Pfaffschwende, Landkreis Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Germany

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Green Belt – Kolonnenweg X5

1. Wolfstisch Viewpoint – View of Schloss Rothestein loop from Eschwege

2. Salzfrau Viewpoint – Wolfstisch Viewpoint loop from Eschwege

3. View of Kella from Grenzeck – Teufelskanzel Singletrail loop from Eschwege

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