The tour leads through the classic city of Weimar with its numerous monuments and historical buildings along the Beer and Castle Road into the Kyffhäuser Mountains. Country roads alternate with main roads and numerous sections are marked by serpentines. Back through the foothills of the Thuringian Basin you have the opportunity to drive through the largest contiguous deciduous forest area in Germany, the Hainich. This track is a balanced tour for touring, chopping and cornering.
Distance: 274 km
Time: 7.0 hours
Start and finish in Arnstadt
| Km | Location | Direction | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Arnstadt, brewery hotel | Stadtilmer Str. until Dornheim exit, to Hohenfelden |
Dornheim with Johann Sebastian Bach's wedding church |
| 20 | Hohenfelden | 1 km to Kranichfeld, then to Tonndorf | Hohenfelden reservoir; Avenida-Therme; climbing forest; Thuringian open-air museum |
| 31 | Bad Berka | B 85/87 to Weimar | Spa town with health spa; chocolate café "Pauline" at the Pauline Tower |
| 42 | Weimar | B 85 to Buttelstädt further to L 1058 | Classic city; Goethe garden house; Schillerhaus; German National Theater; Bauhaus Museum; Fürstengruft; B 85 - "Beer and Castle Street |
| 66 | Buttstädt | to Rastenberg, Wiehe | City of horse markets |
| 86 | Wiehe | to Nausitz, B 86 to Artern |
Europe's largest all-year model railway show |
| 103 | Artern | to Ringleben, to Bad Frankenhausen |
Jüngkens lookout tower on the vineyard; Salinepark |
| 118 | Bad Frankenhausen |
B 85 to Kelbra | Panorama museum with monumental painting; Kyffhäuser monument in honour of Kaiser Wilhelm I; Barbarossa cave Rottleben; winding route to Kyffhäuser monument |
| 134 | kelbra | B 85 to Berga, L 151 to Nordhausen |
Talsperre |
| 154 | Nordhausen | B 4 to Sondershausen | Rolandstadt; free imperial city; Harz transverse station of the Harz narrow-gauge railway; "Echter Nordhäuser - Traditionsbrennerei"; Museum Tabakspeicher |
| 175 | Sondershausen | B84 to Bad Langensalza |
Music and mountain town; former residence castle; "Glück Auf" adventure mine |
| 192 | Ebeleben | B 84 / B 249 to Bad Langensalza |
Schlosspark (palace garden) |
| 215 | Bad Langensalza | to Erfurt to Döllstädt, then to Großfahner | Health resort and rose city with rose garden, Japanese garden, botanical garden and Arboretum; excursion to Hainich National Park with treetop path recommended |
| 231 | Großfahner | to Neudietendorf | Erfurt Orchard |
| 252 | Neudietendorf | to Thörey-Arnstadt | Zinzendorf house |
| 274 | Arnstadt | Bach, beer and fountain town; oldest town in Central Germany; historic old town with town hall and Bach church |
