Odenwaldring (Oberneudorf)
The Odenwaldring was in the 1950s, a motorcycle race track in Oberneudorf , a modern district of Buchen (Odenwald) .
The Odenwaldring was temporarily formed from the road triangle of Landstrasse 523 ( Mudau - Waldhausen ), Landstrasse 523a (Mudau – Buchen) and the federal road 27 between the confluence of both rural roads. The road triangle was 3.9 kilometers long. Between 1950 and 1954, motorcycle races took place on this route at the instigation of the ADAC under the patronage of Gebhard Müller . Five races were driven on each of the racing days, which take place once a year: solo motorcycles up to 125, 250, 350 and 500 cm³ as well as a race for series vehicles. The track length was between 10 and 15 laps, i.e. H. between 39 and 58.5 kilometers. In 1952, 17,000 spectators attended the race, and the number of visitors increased in the following years. The races were stopped in 1955 for financial reasons.
Since 2003, a 4.5 m high sculpture on the "Rüdt'schen Eck", on a parking lot on the former north-east bend of the route, has been a reminder of the Odenwaldring and the first races 50 years earlier.
See also
literature
- Oberneudorf im Odenwald , municipality Oberneudorf 1969, p. 87f.
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 45 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 59 ″ E