It's time to plan our third annual Euro-Marauderville weekend in Germany.
I held off planning for a while in the hopes that we could join in on the same dates as Marauderville 15 stateside but I've learned that there won't be another Marauderville in the USA this year so I guess it's up to the Euro crowd to keep the tradition alive.
Euro-Marauderville 2017 will be held on September 1st-3rd in Paderborn, Germany.
Our official hotel is the Road House Hotel located at a truck stop just off the Autobahn A33, this is a newly build 3 star hotel which is easy to reach and always offers the best rates in town. Nothing fancy but I've had friends staying there before and they all liked it. I will be handling the reservation I just need to know how many rooms we need and for how long you will be staying.
http://www.roadhouse-hotel.de/en
Road House Hotel
Borchener Strasse 322
33106 Paderborn
GERMANY
Friday: Arrival day, there will be a table reserved for us at the Miss Pepper American Restaurant in Paderborn at the same truck stop as our hotel so everybody can enjoy some drinks as no more driving will be required.
http://www.misspepper.de/locations/paderborn/
Miss Pepper
Borchener Strasse 336
33106 Paderborn
Saturday: After breakfast at the Road House we will hit the road and convoy over to the Bilster Berg Drive Resort. This is a newly built race track and automotive proving ground about 20 miles east of Paderborn where manufacturers of high performance vehicles and automotive supplies go to test their new products in secrecy. The track was designed by world rally champion Walter Röhrl and is said to be one of the most challenging circuits in Europe. However unlike the world famous Nürburgring this track is closed off to the public with heavy security on site so you can only go in by appointment which we will have the chance to.
http://www.bilster-berg.de/en
Bilster Berg Drive Resort
Bilster Berg 1
33014 Bad Driburg
Upon returning from the track we will go past Paderborn in the opposite direction to a little village where I was born. My grandfather owns a little shack out in the woods over there which we can use to have our own little barbeque before heading back to the hotel. Public barbeques are illegal in Germany so we couldn't just have one in the hotel parking lot.
Sunday: On Sunday morning there is a little American cars & coffee meet at our hotel where we can participate. This is a regular event taking place on every first Sunday of a month hosted by our local American car club the "Paderborn County Cruisers"
For those of you who don't need to be on the road home straight away we can also head over the Wewelsburg Castle. It's one of the few trilangular castles in the world with a very interesting history, most notably during Third Reich the SS occupied this castle and used it as one of their headquarters. The leader of the SS had bold plans for this castle to become the "center of the new world" following the "final victory" he planned a massive monumental estate stretching for miles so a concentration camp was build nearby to house all the workers for this project which was of course never finished. When American forces divisions closed in near the end of the war, the SS set the castle on fire and fled so by the time American troops reached the area it was completely burned down. The castle was later restored as a war monument and now houses a war memorial, several museums and a youth hostel.
http://www.wewelsburg.de/en
Wewelsburg
Burgwall 19
33142 Büren
Once again please help me spread the word to make this event even greater than last years!