Moselle schist road

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The Moselschiefer-Strasse (also Moselschieferstrasse ) is a holiday route in the eastern Eifel and on the Moselle in Rhineland-Palatinate with a length of about 110 kilometers. It is named after a product from the region, slate . It was extracted in the slate mines and shipped across the Moselle . In Mayen there is the German Slate Mining Museum .

Stations on Moselschiefer-Straße are Mayen, Monreal , Laubach , Kaisersesch , Cochem , Treis-Karden , Hatzenport , Münstermaifeld , Polch and Mayen with the following sights:

The slate extraction and processing located in this region and the slate roofs on the left and right of the road are the link of this circuit. This part of the Eifel is the center of the Central European slate industry for roofs and facades. Slate has been mined there since Roman times and today, with the two Moselle slate mines Grube Katzenberg (Mayen) and Margareta (Polch), the largest slate production in Central Europe can be found in this region.

Moselle slate classic

By 2018, the ADAC Moselschiefer Classic was a classic car - rally , which is essentially the course followed the Moselschiefer Street, performed.

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