Rotschau Fichtelberg Klingenthal

I rode this tour in Sept 08 with my road bike. From Rotschau to Fichtelberg, it is !PERFECT! for road biking as the quality of the roads is very good and, due to the side roads, there are hardly any cars to disturb. After Eibenstock, you go up to Sosa, down to Anthonsthal, and back up to Anthonshöhe. This is the little 'suffer' section of the route. After that, it flattens out again until reaching the Fichtelberg. I heavily modeled the route through Czechia after the route of uwe_ewald - thanks for the template. However, next time I would ride differently. The selected side roads are in parts super bad and probably will not get better. You rarely see cars here but I would take them for a better route. So maybe it's better to choose the main roads if you have sympathy for your road bike material. Just the stretch from Nove Hamry should rather go via Prebuz instead of Jeleni. If you also ride up to Bublava, I got lost here and rode back down very bad paths into the (Klingen-)valley - better to stay on the main road through the town center. From Klingenthal, the roads are perfect again. From Klingenthal, you go up the Aschberg again towards Mühlleithen, not really for Sunday riders, who could remain nice in the valley and go to Beerheide via Muldenberg and Hammerbrücke. From Beerheide, the roughness is almost overcome and it is almost all downhill, except between Rodewisch and Lengenfeld and Mhlwand up to Rotschau where some last small bumps await and then there are again 165 km more on the odometer and around 3000 m of elevation gain. A great tour that cost me 7 hours of riding time but can also be split into 2 days.

Best regards, Karsten Franz.