Palatinate Forest mountain bike park
The Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park is a more than 900 kilometer network of routes for mountain bikes in the center of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park .
history
prehistory
The Gäsbockbiker mountain bike marathon has been taking place in the Palatinate Forest since 2001 and attracted more and more participants in the following years.
Mountain bike park
The Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park was opened in April 2005 with five signposted tours and a mountain bike route network of around 300 kilometers in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park and Biosphere Reserve. In the same year the Kuratorium Sport und Natur eV awarded the mountain bike park the environmental award for a particularly successful combination of nature conservation and nature sports. In 2010, the 10-year bike park anniversary was celebrated with several events and the German Initiative Mountainbike eV (DIMB) awarded the varied tour network the best in Germany with four stars. In the justification, the high proportion of single trails was referred to. In 2014, the optimized mountain bike tour number 4 of the bike park was certified by DIMB as a "Premium Trail Tour".
In 2016, the 16th Gäsbock Mountain Bike Marathon with around 600 participants took place on the routes of the mountain bike park under the motto “Sweet Little Sixteen”. In the same year, 15 new routes were added through an extension. This increased the mountain bike route network to over 900 kilometers of signposted trails.
Well-known professional cyclists like Karl Platt and Udo Bölts regularly use the bike park as a training route.
stretch
Route network
The signposted tours have different levels of difficulty and are suitable for both sport and leisure:
Center Palatinate Forest
In the center of the Palatinate Forest are tours 1 to 6, which are between 50 and 70 km long and climb between 770 and 1,570 meters in altitude. The tours are each designed in the shape of an eight, so that only half a tour can be driven:
- Tour 1 Rodalben - from Rodalben train station, 54 km, of which 9.8 km are single trails
- Tour 2 Waldfischbach - from Waldfischbach train station, 48 km, of which 6.8 km are single trails
- Tour 3 Schopp - from Schopp train station , 67 km, of which 9.7 km are single trails
- Tour 4 Hochspeyer - from Hochspeyer train station , 64 km, thereof 14.3 km single trail (25% single trail share)
- Tour 5 Lambrecht - from Lambrecht train station (Pfalz) , 74 km, of which 12.5 km are single trails
- Tour 6 Landstuhl - start and finish at Nanstein Castle , 50.4 km
Southern Wine Route
Tours 7 to 10 are located on the southern wine route in the area around Annweiler and Bad Bergzabern, which are between 29 and 51 km long and have an altitude difference between 840 and 1,480 meters:
- Tour 7 Albersweiler (Annweiler-Nord) - from the Albersweiler stop, 32 km, 830 m elevation gain
- Tour 8 Annweiler (Annweiler-Süd) - from Annweiler am Trifels train station , 51 km, 1140 m elevation gain
- Tour 9 Bad Bergzabern (Bad Bergzabern-Nord) - from Bad Bergzabern train station , 41 km, 1120 m ascent
- Tour 10 Oberotterbach (Bad Bergzabern-Süd) - from Plätzel Oberotterbach, 31 km, 1150 m ascent
Wasgau
In the area of Hauenstein and Dahn there are tours 11 to 16, which are between 24 and 78 km long and climb between 640 and 1,990 meters in altitude:
- Tour 11 Hauenstein - from the Hauenstein-Mitte stop, 40 km, 1010 m ascent
- Tour 12 Hauenstein-West - from the Hauenstein-Mitte stop, 43 km, 1150 m ascent
- Tour 13 Dahn (Dahn-Mitte) - from Dahn train station , 81 km, 2020 m
- Tour 14 Bundenthal (Dahn-Südost) - from Bundenthal-Rumbach train station , 26 km, 640 m ascent
- Tour 15 Bundenthal (Dahn-Süd) - from Bundenthal-Rumbach train station, 30 km, 870 m ascent
- Tour 16 Fischbach bei Dahn (Dahn-Südwest) - from the biosphere house , 39 km, 790 m ascent
Pirmasens
In the southwest of the Palatinate Forest in the area of Pirmasens, Lemberg and Eppenbrunn are tours 17 to 20, which are 24 to 59 km in length and between 530 and 1,240 meters in altitude:
- Tour 17 Eppenbrunn (Pirmasens-Land-Süd) - from the Eppenbrunn amusement park, 60 km, 970 m elevation gain
- Tour 18 Lemberg / Langmühle (Pirmasens-Land-Mitte) - from the Rudolf-Keller-Haus , 43 km, 990 m ascent
- Tour 19 Lemberg (Pirmasens-Land-Nord) - from Lemberg Castle , 25 km, 460 m ascent
- Tour 20 Pirmasens - from the Eisweiher car park, 57 km, 1110 m ascent
Special routes and courses
There are several special routes and courses with freeride dirt parks, technical and single trail courses, North Shore or cross-country routes for a variety of riding techniques in the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park:
- Bike Park Trippstadt - routes and obstacles with different levels of difficulty; a dirt area, a children's course, a downhill track and a technology section; Sports facility for learning and challenging mountain bike training.
- Singletrail Technikparcours Hochspeyer - Over 3 km of single trails in various degrees of difficulty; Slalom routes with switchbacks in various degrees of difficulty.
- Technique course Schopp - "Entry" into the world of mountain biking; Almost all driving situations occurring in the wild are simulated at a total of 15 different stations; A CC race track is in the immediate vicinity.
- Dahn dirt bike park
Sponsorship
The Palatinate Forest Touristik , consisting of the municipalities of Kaiserslautern-Süd , Lambrecht (Palatinate) , Rodalben and Waldfischbach-Burgalben as well as the former municipality of Hochspeyer , planned and implemented the project in cooperation with the state forest administration and the University of Kaiserslautern .
The administration of the mountain bike park Palatinate Forest is carried out today by the association municipality Kaiserslautern-Süd .
Web links
Official website of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park
Remarks
- ↑ GPS tracks of all routes in the Pfälzerwald Mountain Bike Park can be found on the website GPSies.com.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Rheinpfalz: Neustadt Land: With rock 'n' roll over hill and dale. LAMBRECHT: The 16th Gäsbock marathon of mountain bikers starts on Saturday - with 600 participants already booked out for a long time . May 6, 2016. Online at www.rheinpfalz.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b MTB-Park Pfälzerwald: Mountainbikepark Pfälzerwald ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.mountainbikepark-pfaelzerwald.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Bike magazine: Mountain bike park Palatinate Forest celebrates its 10th anniversary. The Palatinate celebrates its touring treasure . February 16, 2015. Online at www.bike-magazin.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ a b Bike-Magazin: Germany: 10 years of bike trails in the Palatinate Forest. DIMB awards the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park . September 2, 2015. Online at www.bike-magazin.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ Bike-Magazin.de: Karl Platt professional area: Palatinate Forest. Professional area: Karl Platt's home trails . June 25, 2016. Online at www.bike-magazin.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ MTB Park Pfälzerwald: route network . Online at www.mountainbikepark-pfaelzerwald.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Tour planner Rhineland-Palatinate: Landstuhl Tour 6 . Online at www.tourenplaner-rheinland-pfalz.de. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ↑ MTB Park Pfälzerwald: special routes / parcours ( memento of the original from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.mountainbikepark-pfaelzerwald.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
