German Volcano Route

File:Deutsche-vulkanstraße-laacher-see.jpg

Start point of the German Volcano Route just before Station 1 with a view of the Laacher See

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 1	Car park at Erntekreuz with a view of the Laacher See
Station 2	Maria Laach Abbey, Glees	File:Maria Lach 02.jpg
Station 3	Eppelsberg, cinder cone
Station 4	Roman mine, Meurin, near Kruft	File:Römerbergwerk Meurin Innenansicht 2010.jpg
Station 5	Rauschermühle information centre
Station 6	German Volcano Museum, Mendig – Lava Dome, Mendig	File:Lava-dome-mendig-vulkanwerkstatt-9231.jpg
Station 7	Wingertsbergwand	File:Wingertsbergwand-mendig-9322.jpg
Station 8	Mayener Grubenfeld	File:Mayener Grubenfeld - Steinbruch (7).JPG
Station 9	Slip fold, Dachsbusch, Glees
Station 10	Devonian Terrace, Kurfürstenbrunnen well and Angelika Spring
Station 11	Trasshöhlen (caves)	File:Trasshöhlen im Brohltal.jpg
Station 12	Bausenberg, horseshoe crater near Niederzissen	File:Bausenberg.jpg
Station 13	Brohltal/Laacher See Volcano Park (Vulkanpark Brohltal/Laacher See) information centre in Niederzissen
Station 14	Tuff Rock Centre (Tuffsteinzentrum), Weibern
Station 15	Hohe Acht (746,9 m), highest mountain in the Eifel	File:HoheAchtBasalt.jpg
Station 16	Stone quarry at Raustert
Station 17	Mosbrucher Weiher (pond)	File:Mosbrucher Weiher.jpg
Station 18	Ulmener Maar	File:UlmenerMaar.JPG
Station 19	Volcano Platform, Steineberg	File:Fernsicht steineberg.jpg
Station 20	Thermal springs and Käse Grotto (Käsegrotte), Bad Bertrich
Station 21	Immerather Maar (maar lake)	File:Immerather Maar.JPG
Station 22	Pulvermaar	File:Aerial image of Pulvermaar (view from the southwest).jpg
Station 23	Volcano House, Strohn (Vulkanhaus Strohn)
Station 24	Holzmaar (maar lake)	File:Holzmaar01.jpg
Station 25	Dürres Maar and Hitsche Maar	File:Duerresmaar.jpg
Station 26	Weinfelder Maar	File:Weinfeldermaar.jpg
Station 27	Gemündener Maar	File:Gemuendener Maar 03.jpg
Station 28	Volcano Museum, Daun (Vulkanmuseum Daun)
Station 29	Dreiser Weiher	File:Dreiserweiher.jpg
Station 30	Basalt intrusion, Arensberg	File:Arensberg-gestein.jpg
Station 31	Palagonite tuff ring and volcano garden, Steffeln
Station 32	Mühlstein Caves in the Rother Kopf (Eis)
Station 33	Papenkaule and Hagelskaule near Gerolstein
Station 34	Stone runs, Hundsbach valley
Station 35	Kaltwasser Geyser Wallender Born in Wallenborn	File:Wallenborn.jpg
Station 36	Meerfelder Maar	File:Meerfelder Maar.jpg
Station 37	Mosenberg Reihenvulkan and Hinkelsmaar	File:Windsborn Bergkratersee 02.jpg
Station 38	Maar Museum, Manderscheid	File:Manderscheid Maarmuseum 33.JPG
Station 39	Rock folds in the basement near Manderscheid

Literature

• Overview map 1:100,000 series, State Office for Survey and Geobasis Information (Landesamt für Vermessung and Geobasisinformation) Rheinland-Pfalz, ISBN 3-89637-368-4
• d´Hein: Nationaler Geopark Vulkanland Eifel. Ein Natur- and Kulturführer. Gaasterland-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2006, ISBN 3-935873-15-8
• Wolfgang Blum, Wilhelm Meyer: Deutsche Vulkanstraße. Görres Verlag, Koblenz, 2006, ISBN 3-935690-53-3

External links

• German Volcano Road