Bike tour to the Stahl-Hütte World Heritage Site

STEEL IS REAL

The Unesco World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte is only 8 km away from Utopia by bike. Experience the steel production and then at Utopia the wonderful riding experience that only a steel frame can offer.

Info from RadRatgeber about the Völklinger Hütte and Musee-de-la-Mine

On Saturday, 11.7.15 from 11 am Ines Meier invites you:

Bicycle tour to the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte.

The world's only preserved ironworks from the heyday of the iron and steel industry has been closed since 1986 and has been placed under a preservation order.
Today an exciting theme and adventure park of industrial culture with gigantic machines and six blast furnaces, steel production life.

Then we go to France to the historic mine "La Mine Wendel" and the Musée Les Mineurs Wendel in Petite-Roselle, the great mining museum in Europe.
But there is not only culture. True to the Saarland motto "Haupsach, gudd gess", Ines Meier also makes a stop for refreshments.

The end is around 5 pm.

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You can ride the tour with your own bike
or - if available - get a rental bike from Utopia.
Please let us know your bike preference and body size 10 days before the ride.
We look forward to seeing you!

Ines Meier and the Utopia Team

Hints for the ride:

Meeting point: 10:30 a.m. Utopia parking lot.
Start and arrival: 11 a.m. at Utopia until about 5 p.m. Length: about 22 km
Visit to the world cultural heritage approx. 3 hours
Entrance fee world cultural heritage: 15,00 € (www.voelklinger-huette.org) per person
Visit to the mine will be decided spontaneously.
Responsible for route guidance and all questions is Ines Meier.
She will be in the lead and should not be overtaken.
At the end there is always the same person who makes sure that nobody gets stuck.
On public roads please follow the traffic rules
always ride one behind the other, especially on the winding uphill sections.
You ride at your own risk.
The tour has about 150 meters of altitude, most of it with a mild gradient on the railway line of the old mine.
The route leads over roads, forest paths, railway tracks and also car roads.
Not suitable for bikes with narrow tyres.
Please take drinking bottles with you!

We look forward to seeing you! Enjoy the next day at the Utopia summer festival!

Info from RadRatgeber about the Völklingen Ironworks and Musee-de-la-Mine