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Neuerburger Kopf 🌄🏔️🤓 #homehill #summit 🚵‍♂️🏃‍♂️❤️

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Neuerburger Kopf 🌄🏔️🤓 #homehill #summit 🚵‍♂️🏃‍♂️❤️

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Location: Wittlich, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Bombogen Vegetable Farm loop from Mehrgenerationendorf St. Paul

7.62km

02:03

100m

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2. Bombogen Vegetable Farm – Altes Missionshaus Wittlich loop from Mehrgenerationendorf St. Paul

8.95km

02:24

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3. Bombogen Vegetable Farm – Echo Point Neijaburja Kopp 📣📣🤓 loop from Wittlich Hauptbahnhof

10.0km

02:41

110m

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Die_Ute

June 6, 2021

The Neuerburger Kopf is clearly visible from afar. The striking mountain towers 286 meters above the Wittlich depression. Experts estimate that it is 108 million years old - much older than the maars of the volcanic Eifel. A robber baron's castle already stood on it, and vineyards were once planted here too. The Neuerburger Kopf consists mainly of sandstone and basalt. It is probably 108 million years old. The volcanoes in the Eifel are much younger, around 45 million years old. The Luxembourgers built a robber baron's castle on the Neuerburger Kopf, wanting to weaken the Electorate of Trier, which had large areas in the Eifel, and to make access to the Moselle more difficult. The Trierers did not put up with this, destroyed the castle and built their own castle on the Neuerburger Kopf in the 13th century." In 1689 it was almost completely destroyed by the French general Bouffleurs. Stones from this ruin were used in the construction of many of Neuerburg's houses.

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Die_Ute

July 2, 2023

The volcanic cone was formed 108 million years ago. Magma penetrated the Devonian sandstone layers and solidified below the earth's surface. This passage or chimney made of hard basalt protected the surrounding sandstone from erosion, leaving the conical shape of the Neuerburger Kopf, which is still clearly visible today. Classified as belonging to the Cretaceous period, the Neuerburger Kopf and the neighboring Lüxeberg are the oldest volcanic features in the Eifel.

The Neuerburger Kopf was formerly called Merkuriusberg (Mercurius, Roman god of trade). The former name is explained by the Roman trade and military roads that crossed next to it. The current name refers to a castle. Archbishop Albero (1131-1152) had a "novum castrum" (= new castle) built, which was completed in 1168 by Archbishop Hillin and expanded by Archbishop Henry II (1260-1286). The castle was used primarily to collect customs duties on the neighboring trade route and was one of the seven castles of the Electorate of Trier, along with Manderscheid, Arras, Saarburg, Grimburg, Welschbillig and Ehrenbreitstein. The last inhabitants of Hatzdorf, which had been ravaged by the plague and abandoned, settled under the protection of the castle and founded the village of Neuerburg. Neuerburg Castle was most likely destroyed in 1689 by the French Marshal François de Créquy, who also had Wittlich destroyed from Mont Royal. Today only a few remains of the walls can be found.

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Elevation 250 m

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Location: Wittlich, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Neuerburger Kopf 🌄🏔️🤓 #homehill #summit 🚵‍♂️🏃‍♂️❤️

1. Bombogen Vegetable Farm loop from Mehrgenerationendorf St. Paul

2. Bombogen Vegetable Farm – Altes Missionshaus Wittlich loop from Mehrgenerationendorf St. Paul

3. Bombogen Vegetable Farm – Echo Point Neijaburja Kopp 📣📣🤓 loop from Wittlich Hauptbahnhof

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