Pünderich Railway Viaduct – Großes Schlitzohr Tunnel loop from Daun
Pünderich Railway Viaduct – Großes Schlitzohr Tunnel loop from Daun
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Pünderich Railway Viaduct – Großes Schlitzohr Tunnel loop from Daun
05:07
103km
1,410m
Road cycling
Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The route includes a crossing by ferry. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: May 25, 2026
This route includes a ferry crossing
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After 42.5 km for 156 m
After 42.9 km for 156 m
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4.06 km
Großes Schlitzohr Tunnel
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5.98 km
Old Schalkenmehren Train Station
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Passenger service between Daun and Wittlich was discontinued on November 1, 1981.
Schalkenmehren. Approaching the Old Station in Schalkenmehren on the former railway line, today's Maare-Mosel cycle path, and seeing the station building, it's hard to believe that it was opened as a fourth-class railway station exactly 100 years ago.
But how did it all begin 100 years ago? Surveying for the Daun-Wittlich railway line began as early as 1897. General preparatory work for the single-track line began in 1907. But it would take some time before the Daun-Schalkenmehren-Gillenfeld section opened on December 1, 1909, with the line running over the 28-meter-high Daun viaduct and through the 560-meter-long Schalkenmehren railway tunnel, "Großes Schlitzohr" (Great Sly Fox). The extension from Gillenfeld to Manderscheid to Pantenburg was completed on May 1, 1910, and the extension from Manderscheid-Pantenburg to Wittlich, signifying the completion of the entire line, was completed on July 1, 1910.
The completion of the Daun-Wittlich railway line brought rapid development to the village of Schalkenmehren. In the first year of the line's existence (1910), 18,968 tickets were sold in Schalkenmehren, followed by 25,057 in 1913, 27,969 in 1919, and even 30,279 in 1922. In addition, Schalkenmehren station was designed for general cargo traffic and the receipt and dispatch of wagonloads.
Text / Source: volksfreund.de
volksfreund.de/region/vulkaneifel/ein-schmuckstueck-fuer-nostalgiker_aid-5712448
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8.20 km
Mosel-Maare Cycle Path
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9.28 km
Maare-Moselle Cycle Path
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42.7 km
Pünderich Railway Viaduct
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50.1 km
View of Zell
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60.4 km
View of the Moselle River and Adelgund Lock
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99.1 km
Großes Schlitzohr Tunnel
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103 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
56.7 km
30.5 km
8.39 km
5.37 km
857 m
534 m
323 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
97.8 km
3.77 km
796 m
323 m
< 100 m
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Lowest point (90 m)
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