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Saxon Landwehr – Riether and Hellinger Hag

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Saxon Landwehr – Riether and Hellinger Hag

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Saxon Landwehr – Riether and Hellinger Hag

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Location: Hellingen, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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Best Mountain Biking Routes to Saxon Landwehr – Riether and Hellinger Hag

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1. Lower Gate Heldburg – Hellingen Lakes loop from Hellingen

30.1km

01:56

250m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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2. Border Tower at Gompertshausen – Trappstadt Castle loop from Ermershausen

39.7km

02:32

380m

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

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3. Devil's Oak – View of the Coburg Countryside loop from Albingshausen

51.0km

03:24

580m

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

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RadlerUnterland🚵‍♂️

February 27, 2022

Great corner for cross biking if you know the routes from Rieth to Schweickershausen there.

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RadlerUnterland🚵‍♂️

April 25, 2024

The Saxon Landwehr and the neighboring Henneberg Landwehr are former defense structures between the Electorate of Saxony, Henneberg and Würzburg possessions. Their remains (ramparts and ditches) can be found today in the area south of the Thuringian Forest, the Saxon Landwehr entirely in the Hildburghausen district in the south of Thuringia.

Source: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4chsische_Landwehr

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RadlerUnterland🚵‍♂️

April 25, 2024

The construction of the continuous landwehr began after 1440, about 70 years after the Coburg care and with it the border regions of Heldburger Land, Hildburghausen and Eisfelder Land had passed from Henneberg to Saxon ownership. At this time, the "local lands in Franconia" had developed into a remote but significant focal point of the interests of the hereditary lines of the electoral family and important noble families in the growing Electorate of Saxony. Various members of the House of Wettin resided in Coburg and Sonneberg. The burgraves of Meissen from the Sterker von Wohlsbach family, the ancestors of the Meinheringers, had been wealthy in the Coburg region, but had lost their allodial property to the Duchy of Merania, from whose inheritance these passed to the Hennebergers.

Source:de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4chsische_Landwehr

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Elevation 320 m

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Location: Hellingen, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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Saxon Landwehr – Riether and Hellinger Hag

1. Lower Gate Heldburg – Hellingen Lakes loop from Hellingen

2. Border Tower at Gompertshausen – Trappstadt Castle loop from Ermershausen

3. Devil's Oak – View of the Coburg Countryside loop from Albingshausen

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