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 The High Eifel (german: Hocheifel (Ost) or ''Hohe Eifel'') forms part of the Eifel Mountains in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The landscape here between Adenau, Mendig and Daun rises to a height of 747 m. The region is not to be ...

. It links 39 sites within the Geopark Vulkanland Eifel in the

Volcanic Eifel The Volcanic Eifel or Vulkan Eifel (german: Vulkaneifel) is a region in the Eifel Mountains in Germany that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of this volcanic field are its typical explosion crater l ...

(''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 Cochem-Zell (German: ''Landkreis Cochem-Zell'') is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Hunsrück, Bernkastel-Wittlich, and Vulkaneifel. History In 1816 the d ...

Mayen-Koblenz Mayen-Koblenz is a district (''Kreis'') in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ahrweiler, Neuwied, Westerwaldkreis, district-free Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Rhein-Hunsrück, Cochem-Zell, and V ...

and

Vulkaneifel Vulkaneifel () is a district (''Kreis'') in the northwest of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the least densely populated district in the state and the fourth most sparsely populated district in Germany. The administrative centre of ...

. The choice of the 39 stations was made by the German Vulcanology Society (''Deutsche Vulkanologische Gesellschaft'', DVG).

Route

Literature

*Overview map 1:100,000 series, State Office for Survey and Geobasis Information (Landesamt für Vermessung and Geobasisinformation)

Rheinland-Pfalz Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

, *d´Hein: ''Nationaler Geopark Vulkanland Eifel. Ein Natur- and Kulturführer.'' Gaasterland-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2006, *Wolfgang Blum, Wilhelm Meyer: ''Deutsche Vulkanstraße''. Görres Verlag, Koblenz, 2006, {{ISBN, 3-935690-53-3

External links

German Volcano Road
German tourist routes Eifel