ドルランの峠・トップ18

This pass is pleasant to ride up the Moselle. You only have to pedal hard for the last few hundred meters. You can - and should - refresh yourself at the source of the Moselle shortly beforehand. You will be rewarded with a long, but also busy, descent into Alsace.

The Col de Bussang is a 731 m high pass in the Vosges. The pass is located 8.4 km northeast of the Ballon d'Alsace between the communities of Bussang in the west and Urbès in the east. The border between Lorraine and Alsace runs 200 meters west of the pass. National Road 66 runs over the pass (Wikipedia).

Arrived at the top via the national road. Thank you, that was enough.

A treat from the Thann Valley. Beautiful asphalt, a clear view of the Grand Balloon 🎈 in the first bends and accessible percentages. Perfect !

We, the Kemnather Land team, also tortured ourselves like crazy ;-) on our 4-day tour to Lörrach. It was nice!

The approach from Bitschwiller-lès-Thann has an elevation gain of 400 meters over 6.2 kilometers. A maximum gradient of 13%. But it is relatively uneven, so it is not that easy to ride.

Nice climb from Bitschwiller, nice road surface and nice profile

"Torment yourself, you sow!" Udo Bölt's helper is said to have yelled at his team captain Jan Ullrich on this rather second-rate pass at the 1997 Tour de France. It can no longer be determined exactly whether this is exactly the case, but at least the name of the pass "Hundsruck" actually fits the saying quite well and the website quaeldich.de, which has already been mentioned in another comment, also fits this cycling myth quite well.