German Volcano Route

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
Station 3	Eppelsberg, cinder cone
Station 4	Roman mine, Meurin, near Kruft
Station 5	Rauschermühle information centre
Station 6	German Volcano Museum, Mendig – Lava Dome, Mendig
Station 7	Wingertsbergwand
Station 8	Mayener Grubenfeld
Station 9	Slip fold, Dachsbusch, Glees
Station 10	Devonian Terrace, Kurfürstenbrunnen well and Angelika Spring
Station 11	Trasshöhlen (caves)
Station 12	Bausenberg, horseshoe crater near Niederzissen
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
Station 16	Stone quarry at Raustert
Station 17	Mosbrucher Weiher (pond)
Station 18	Ulmener Maar
Station 19	Volcano Platform, Steineberg
Station 20	Thermal springs and Käse Grotto (Käsegrotte), Bad Bertrich
Station 21	Immerather Maar (maar lake)
Station 22	Pulvermaar
Station 23	Volcano House, Strohn (Vulkanhaus Strohn)
Station 24	Holzmaar (maar lake)
Station 25	Dürres Maar and Hitsche Maar
Station 26	Weinfelder Maar
Station 27	Gemündener Maar
Station 28	Volcano Museum, Daun (Vulkanmuseum Daun)
Station 29	Dreiser Weiher
Station 30	Basalt intrusion, Arensberg
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
Station 36	Meerfelder Maar
Station 37	Mosenberg Reihenvulkan and Hinkelsmaar
Station 38	Maar Museum, Manderscheid
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