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Deutsch Deutsche Grenze

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Dirk and Gunnar planned a bike ride

February 4, 2025

Deutsch Deutsche Grenze

Hard

60:38

762km

12.6km/h

8,150m

7,830m

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Overview

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

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 719 km for 50 m

Most people would complete this in 9-20 days

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Waypoints

Marienborn Memorial to the Division of Germany

Highlight • Historical Site

On this section along the memorial Deutsche Teilung you get a good overview of the gigantic former border crossing point Marienborn. Luckily, this madness has long been history.

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103 km

Kukki's Pea Soup Kiosk

Highlight • Cafe

Good pea soup at normal prices.

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117 km

Eirge Picnic Area and Harzer Querbahn Viewpoint

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136 km

Ellrich‑Juliushütte Concentration Camp Subcamp Memorial

Highlight • Historical Site

Unfortunately, the deniers of these crimes are increasing again.

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141 km

Walkenried Abbey

Highlight • Religious Site

Make sure to plan time for a monastery tour and let the audio guide take you back to another time!

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179 km

Wehnder Warte

Highlight • Monument

old, restored watchtower from 1430, open to the public with a wide view of the underfield.

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186 km

Border Watchtower Btv 4x4 (Green Belt Germany)

Highlight • Monument

These border installations were already a fortress here hardly anyone had to overcome the installations. You should visit these border installations and the green belt

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189 km

Böseckendorf Escape Memorial

Highlight • Monument

On October 2, 1961, 53 residents of the Thuringian region fled
Böseckendorf to Immingerode, about 3 km away. 13 other Böseckendorfer left the GDR in the night of February 22nd …

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259 km

Rest Area with Shelter and Map in Eschwege

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Here you can take a short break right next to the cycle path. From here you can continue towards Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Reichensachsen or Eschwege.

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328 km

Memorial 'From Confinement to Freedom' at the Former Inner German Border

Highlight • Monument

At the Werra bridge between Lauchröden and Herleshausen you can experience a piece of German history.

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342 km

Round Church of Untersuhl

Highlight • Religious Site

Open daily in summer. The apostles were partly painted after living donors of the church renovation, e.g. Jakobus Minor is the cloth maker Gliem, my ancestor. The house of the …

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367 km

Werrabrücke Vacha (Bridge of Unity)

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The Werra bridge at Wacha was for a while rather the symbol of disunity. Because it is almost directly on the former inner German border and was closed until the …

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387 km

Former Border Fence at Point Alpha

Highlight • Historical Site

Experience history up close at this historic point in German history. Everyone should see it at least once. The wind called "we are the people".

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409 km

Milseburgradweg Cycle Path

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The Milseburgradweg is very well developed (former railway line of the Biebertalbahn) and is also easy to drive with children. We recommend starting the Ulstertal Cycle Path in Hilders. It …

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421 km

Church in Frankenheim/Rhön

Highlight • Religious Site

Very nice church in Frankenheim

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424 km

Heimatblick Viewpoint

Highlight • Viewpoint

Lots of seating at the "Heimatblick" on the Schwedenschanze. The trip up here is worth it. 👌

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427 km

Picnic Area on the Way to Heimatblick

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Nice place for a rest

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443 km

Village Fountain in Willmars

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There are also several seating options on the village square

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468 km

Chestnut Natural Monument

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Very beautiful old chestnut tree on the cycle path to Berkach, designated as a natural monument.

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487 km

St. Wendelin Church, Eyershausen

Highlight • Religious Site

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Wendelin is a listed church building in Eyershausen, a part of the town of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld in the Rhön-Grabfeld district (Lower Franconia, …

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493 km

Source of the Franconian Saale (Alsleben) with rest area and information board

Highlight • River

The Franconian Saale originates in the Grabfeld near the Haßberge Mountains, east and southeast of Bad Königshofen, respectively, from two roughly equal, 3.9 km long source streams:

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553 km

Lempertshausen

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The village is located on the western edge of the Lange Berge, around two kilometers north of Bad Rodach, on the Bavarian border with Thuringia. The Grundbach, a tributary of …

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557 km

Here is the border stone circle, erected in memory of the voluntary land exchange in the Heldritter Wald. The border stone circle was arranged from leftover border stones. The place was named Dietmar-Killmann-Platz.

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558 km

View of Hetschbach

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The Hetschbach district can be reached via district road 531. The area of the village was a restricted border area of the GDR. Today the district borders on Bavaria. The …

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569 km

A73 freeway overpass

Highlight (Segment) • Bridge

Crossing under the A 73 towards Eisfeld or Bad Rodach. A bit spectacular.

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668 km

Rest Area Near Schmiedebach

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Rest area at Schmiedebach, a place that is richly blessed with slate-covered houses. Steep descent in urban areas (16%) partly on a cobbled street.

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Bus stop with shelter in Vogtland

Highlight • Rest Area

Unusual bus stop in a rather remote town - with a door and (non-opening) windows. Furnished with two benches and a garbage can in front of it.
We discovered the …

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