Die sieben Odenwald-Schwestern

This route was an attempt to accumulate as much elevation gain as possible over the shortest distance in the Odenwald, without having to ride the same sections multiple times. The name of the route comes from the seven climbs that it contains. The two longest and most strenuous are the Neunkirchen height, which is ridden up to the radar station, and the Melibocus.

A note: The elevation profile is not accurate, in total, this route comes very close to 2000 meters of elevation, which breaks down as follows:

Mühltal - p.400: 250hm Beedenkirchen - Brandau: 50hm Brandau - Radarturm: 300hm Reichenbach - Kuralpe: 300hm (two small counter-climbs) Zwingenberg - Melibocus: 400hm Seeheim - Stettbach: 250hm Seeheim - Frankenstein: 250hm Frankenstein - Mühltal: 50hm

If you ride back from Melibocus via Balkhausen and from Neunkirchen via Winterkasten to Reichenbach, you would actually accumulate well over 2000m of elevation over about 90 km!