German Volcano Route Explained

The German Volcano Route or, less commonly, German Volcano Road (German: Deutsche Vulkanstraße) is a 280-kilometre-long tourist route from the River Rhine to the mountains of the High Eifel. It links 39 sites within the Geopark Vulkanland Eifel in the Volcanic Eifel (Vulkaneifel), at which geological, cultural-historical and industrial-historical nature and cultural monuments on the subject of volcanicity in the Eifel are located.

The project was carried out in 2008 in cooperation between the counties of Ahrweiler, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell, Mayen-Koblenz and Vulkaneifel. The choice of the 39 stations was made by the German Vulcanology Society (Deutsche Vulkanologische Gesellschaft, DVG).

Route

Station Name Image
Station 1Car park at Erntekreuz with a view of the Laacher See
Station 2Maria Laach Abbey, Glees
Station 3Eppelsberg, cinder cone
Station 4Roman mine, Meurin, near Kruft
Station 5Rauschermühle information centre
Station 6German Volcano Museum, Mendig – Lava Dome, Mendig
Station 7Wingertsbergwand
Station 8Mayener Grubenfeld
Station 9Slip fold, Dachsbusch, Glees
Station 10Devonian Terrace, Kurfürstenbrunnen well and Angelika Spring
Station 11Trasshöhlen (caves)
Station 12Bausenberg, horseshoe crater near Niederzissen
Station 13Brohltal/Laacher See Volcano Park (Vulkanpark Brohltal/Laacher See) information centre in Niederzissen
Station 14Tuff Rock Centre (Tuffsteinzentrum), Weibern
Station 15Hohe Acht (746,9 m), highest mountain in the Eifel
Station 16Stone quarry at Raustert
Station 17Mosbrucher Weiher (pond)
Station 18Ulmener Maar
Station 19Volcano Platform, Steineberg
Station 20Thermal springs and Käse Grotto (Käsegrotte), Bad Bertrich
Station 21Immerather Maar (maar lake)
Station 22Pulvermaar
Station 23Volcano House, Strohn (Vulkanhaus Strohn)
Station 24Holzmaar (maar lake)
Station 25Dürres Maar and Hitsche Maar
Station 26Weinfelder Maar
Station 27Gemündener Maar
Station 28Volcano Museum, Daun (Vulkanmuseum Daun)
Station 29Dreiser Weiher
Station 30Basalt intrusion, Arensberg
Station 31Palagonite tuff ring and volcano garden, Steffeln
Station 32Mühlstein Caves in the Rother Kopf (Eis)
Station 33Papenkaule and Hagelskaule near Gerolstein
Station 34Stone runs, Hundsbach valley
Station 35Kaltwasser Geyser Wallender Born in Wallenborn
Station 36Meerfelder Maar
Station 37Mosenberg Reihenvulkan and Hinkelsmaar
Station 38Maar Museum, Manderscheid
Station 39Rock folds in the basement near Manderscheid

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