Volcano Park, Mayen-Koblenz
The volcano park in the district of Mayen -Koblenz is a Geopark was established in 1996 in the eastern volcanic Eifel. It extends around the Laacher See ( between Brohl- Lützing, Andernach, Andernach, and Mendig Mayen ). The volcano park in the district of Mayen -Koblenz forms, together with the volcano park Brohltal / Laacher See and the Nature and Geopark Vulkaneifel the recognized national geopark volcanic Eifel. The German volcano road connects the three Geoparks the volcanic Eifel region over a distance of 280 kilometers.
The volcano park shows using projects volcanism of the Eifel, the formation of the landscape and the use of basalt, pumice and tuff from Roman times to the present. Visitors can experience this on volcanological, archaeological and historical industrial projects that are well served by information boards and trails. Overall, the volcano park has 25 stations, which also can be interconnected Desk. This is possible by four car routes, but also by walking and cycling routes. Thus, the volcano park bike path Mayen leads to Andernach and passes as well numerous volcanological and archaeological projects of the Volcano Park.
The volcano park was awarded on 10 June 2010 for the protection and restoration of cultural heritage in Europe with the " European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage " of the preservation organization Europa Nostra in the category " education, teaching, training and awareness-raising ." The price had previously received the volcano park project Roman mine Meurin 2003.
Vulkanpark stations
Blue Route - Andernach
- Information center Rauschermühle
Central point of contact between Andernach and Saffig, information center and museum with exhibitions on the origin of the Eifel and the history of stone degradation.
- Roman mine Meurin in Kretz
- Krufter Bachtal
Get Tuff deposits are after the Laacher See Eruption.
- Mount Carmel with St. Mary's Chapel
- Roman tomb in Ochtendung
Built of jobs lost during the Roman mine Meurin tuff.
Red Route - Mendig
- Lava Dome Mendig
Volcano museum with information about the history of volcanism and geological history of the region.
- Lavakeller
Underground mining 32 meters below the city Mendig in a cooled lava flow with an area of three square kilometers.
- Museumslay
Open-air exhibition on the life of miners in the degradation and processing of basalt lava.
- Wingertsbergwand
The 50 -meter-high mountain wall are volcanological information about the eruption of the Laacher See volcano.
Yellow Route - Andernach
- Geysir Andernach
Worldwide highest cold water geyser.
- City Museum Andernach
Exhibition of historical products of basaltic lava and tuff.
- Nastberg
Former volcano with the calibration.
- Roman tomb in Nickenich
Built of jobs lost during the Roman mine Meurin tuff.
- Pellenz Museum of Archaeology in Nickenich
Accommodates findings for pre-and early history as well as in Roman times.
- Eppelsberg
By dismantling a unique insight into a 230,000 years old volcano was formed.
- Mauerley next to the head Veit
Roman quarry area in the lava of the volcano Veit head.
- High beech
In the Roman period and the early Middle Ages, the basalt rock of the High Beech was used as a building material (including the construction of the Roman bridge of Trier).
Green Route - Mayen
- Kottenheimer Winfeld
Mining district of Mayen basaltic lava flow in the most powerful of the Bellerberg volcano.
- The Ahl at Sankt Johann
Bizarre rock formations, created by the eruption of Hochsimmer volcano.
- Ettringer Lay in Ettringen
Basalt lava pit box and tuff pits of modern times with remains of pit cranes, crane pedestals, tracks and buildings.
- Ettringer Bellerberg / Kottenheimer Büden
Western and eastern flank of the great Bellerberg volcano.
- Eifelmuseum Mayen in the Genovevaburg with German shale mine
- Mayen's pit box
Oldest and most important mining site for Mayen basaltic lava.
- Katzenberg
Here is the largest late Roman mounting height was in the Eifel and Hunsrück.
- Booser Doppelmaar
Research (VAT)
For the presentation of the research based in Mayen Research Center are volcanology, archeology and art history (VAT) of the person established in Mainz Roman- Germanic Central Museum fundamentally. One focus of the work lies in exploring the use of volcanic rocks as building material and as millstones especially in Roman times. Building materials from the East Eifel was used to build the Roman Colonia Ulpia Traiana at Xanten, and came to southern Scandinavia.