Moselle schist road
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:
- Late Roman height fortification Katzenberg , Mayen
- Bürresheim Castle , Sankt Johann (near Mayen)
- Eltz Castle , Wierschem
- Pyrmont Castle , Roes
- Moselle slate view at Klotten
- Mönch-Felix-Hütte lookout point near Niederfell
- Mathiaskapelle view near Kobern-Gondorf
- Thurant Castle , Alken
- Martberg Archeology Park , Pomerania / Treis-Karden
- Reichsburg Cochem
- Waterfall near Maria Martental, Büchel
- Pilgrimage church Maria Martental , Leienkaul
- Löwenburg and Philippsburg , Monreal
- Vulkanparkzentrum am Grubenfeld in Mayen
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.
See also
- Fell visitor mine near Trier, historic roof slate mine