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GER - GERMANY
SOLITUDE
Not to be confused with	Solitude, Gerlingen
Description	First hillclimb in this area was raced in 1903, few km far from the most famous circuit (the 1935÷1965 one). In 1925 for the first time a large circuit 22.3 km - 13.8 mi long was used (not shown in my map). It used also the section Glemseck - Dreispitz - Schattengrund. In 1931 a new layout (not shown here as well) used Mahdental (Mahden valley) section from Schattengrund to Glemseck. In 1935 finally defintive layout was first used. In following years, it hosted both car and motorbikes legendary races and tests by Mercedes, Porsche (both based in Stuttgart) and NSU. The circuit was abandoned in 1965 and it was replaced by Hockenheim, just renovated and converted into a permanent circuit. Solitute track was reverted into a public road. Since 2003 some historical revivals have been held on some section of the old tracks, but in 2004, when Gerlingen Circuit were used.
Location	Stuttgard BW - Baden-Württemberg - 1949÷1990: BRD
Location	Between Stuttgart, Leonberg and Büsnau, along Mahdental (Mahden Valley), in Baden Württemberg
Latitude - Longitude	+ 48°46'06"     + 9°02'44" 48.768333     9.045556
UTM Coordinates	X = 503347.507  -  Y = 5401703.981  -  Zone 32U
Aerial photo / Map (*)	Google Maps  -    Bing Maps  -    Flash Earth  -    GoYellow.de
Altitude AMSL	380 m - 1247 ft
Inauguration	1903
Closing
Designer
Sources and links (Translation) (**)	(1) Forum Forum Europe German Countries GER - Solitude [ENG] (2) forums.autosport.com (...) Autosport.com Bulletin Board The Nostalgia Forum Solitude racetrack (3) tbk.fameflame.dk (...) Forum tbk.fameflame.dk Motorsport Photos Solitude Racetrack Part 1 of 2 (4) www.classic-motorrad.de/w_mueller_50er/Solitude/Solitude.htm 2003 Revival (5) www.landkartenindex.de/spezial/spezial_rennstrecken_solitude.htm (6) www.matthiasacksel.de/Projekte.html Project of the new Solitude Ring (7) www.milermeter.com/?r=2309237 Track layout (8) www.milermeter.com/?r=2315219 Track layout (9) www.milermeter.com/?r=2315276 Track layout (10) www.milermeter.com/?r=2315293 Track layout (11) www.racingcircuits.net Motor Racing Circuits Database (12) www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/solitude.html The GEL Motorsport - Tracks Around The World (13) www.solitude-memorial.de/soli02hist.htm (14) www.solitude-rennen.de/index.htm (15) www.solitude-revival.org (16) www.solitude-revival.org/sr03a.htm (17) www.solitude-revival.org/stx06_06.htm 2006 Revival (18) www.solitude-revival.org/u_sr03a.htm (19) Autosprint 21/1969 (page 21) Main data (because of a mistake, map reported shown Sebring circuit) (20) www.solitude-memorial.de Official website

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Solitude
Description
Years	1903÷1905
Direction
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit
Motorbike circuit
Type	Hillclimb
Inauguration	1903
Closing	1905
Last update of this page	October 3rd 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Schwarzwild Park - Solitude
length	4023  m	13200  ft	2.5  mi		(11)
length	4000  m	13123  ft	2.486  mi		(16)
length	6950  m	22801  ft	4.318  mi	Calculated from aerial photo (*)	(9)

Solitude
Description
Years	1906÷1924
Direction
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit
Motorbike circuit
Type	Hillclimb
Inauguration	1906
Closing	1924
Last update of this page	October 3rd 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Schwarzwild Park - Solitude
length	7000  m	22967  ft	4.35  mi		(11)
length	7000  m	22966  ft	4.35  mi		(16)
length	6627  m	21743  ft	4.118  mi	Calculated from aerial photo (*)	(10)

Solitude
Description
Years	1925÷1930
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit	YES
Type	Road course
Inauguration	1925
Closing	1930
Last update of this page	October 3rd 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Solitude - Glemseck - Hadersbachkurve - Hadersbachebene - Sandsträßle - Frauenkreuz - Dreispitz - Lettenlöcher - Steinbachset - Schatten - Schwarzwild Park
length	22300  m	73163  ft	13.857  mi		(11)
length	22300  m	73163  ft	13.857  mi		(16)

Solitude
Description
Years	1931
Direction	Clockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit	YES
Type	Road course
Inauguration	1931
Closing	1931
Last update of this page	October 3rd 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Solitude - Schwarzwild Park - Bruderhaus - Sandwerk - Café Glemstal - Spitzenklinge - Glemseck
length	19900  m	65289  ft	12.366  mi		(16)

Solitude
Description	Start/finish line was near Leonberg and still today (see photo 1, below) you can see "Zeitnehmerhaus" tower on the left and pits on the right. Today here is based an ADAC Verkehrsübungsplatz (traffic exercise area). Hadersbachkurve was a very steep and tight uphill turn, the the track goes on with a steep uphill (up to 18%) up to Elend. From Frauenkreuz the circuit went left, but this section 600 m long up to Dreispitz in 1998 was demolished and replaced by the forest, because of a tread-off for the one cut down for building an Autobahn restaurant. Section after Lettenlöcher was very fast and weavy. After Büsnau village, the circuit goes downhill with some corners up to Schattengrund, where it joins the road that comes from Stuttgart. From here the circuit follows Mahdental (Mahden valley), with Glems creek on the left and hills on the right. There are 10 left and 8 right corners, all difficult because they seems very similar, but they are quite different.
Years	1935÷1965
Direction	Anticlockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit	YES
Type	Road course
Inauguration	1935
Closing	1965
Last update of this page	October 3rd 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Glemseck - Hadersbachkurve - Elend - Hadersbachebene - Sandsträßle - Frauenkreuz - Dreispitz - Lettenlöcher - Wildparkeck - Schatten - Schattengrund - Bruderhaus - Sandwerk - Café Glemstal - Spitzenklinge - Krumbachtalkurve
length	11500  m	37730  ft	7.146  mi		(11)
length	11700  m	38386  ft	7.27  mi		(16)
length	11417  m	37457  ft	7.094  mi		(2)
length	11401  m	37404  ft	7.084  mi	Calculated from aerial photo (*)	(8)

Solitude
Description
Years	2003
Direction	Clockwise
Proposal	NO
No longer operational	YES
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit	YES
Type	Road course
Inauguration	2003
Closing	2003
Last update of this page	October 3rd 2008
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points	Solitudestraße - Bergheimer Steige - Wildparkstraße - Stuttgarter Straße - K1659
length	4600  m	15092  ft	2.858  mi		(16)
length	4641  m	15227  ft	2.884  mi	Calculated from aerial photo (*)	(7)

Bergsprint
Description	Hillclimb that used first section of the 1935÷1965 circuit, from after first bend to Frauenkreuz
Years	2006
Direction
Proposal	NO
No longer operational
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit	YES
Type	Hillclimb
Inauguration
Closing
Last update of this page	November 25th 2010
Info last update	September 15th 2006
Designer
Distinctive points

Solitude Ring
Description	Proposed permanent circuit to be built in the same area where there was start/finish line of 1935÷1965 circuit
Years
Direction
Proposal	YES
Proposal not developed
Car Circuit	YES
Motorbike circuit
Type	Permanent
Inauguration
Closing
Last update of this page	November 25th 2010
Info last update
Designer
Distinctive points

Location: + 48°46'06", + 9°02'44"
If the aerial photo is not visible, you have to zoom out by clicking (maybe more then once) button ’-’ in top left corner

PHOTOS

Photos by Crasher, taken on July 2005 (already posted on tbk.fameflame.dk - Motorsport Photos - Solitude Racetrack Part 1 of 2 and here published with author’s permission). Comments by Crasher slighty modified; Italian translation is mine I went to our great track Solitude near Stuttgart. Unfortunately the power of our camera gave up after "Schattengrund" near Stuttgart-Büsnau. I managed to shot one picture from the last corner, but Mahdental (Mahden valley) is completely missed. Frauenkreuz and Dreispitz are no longer existing today, I hardly searched for them, might have to go trough the forest. On official website (Rennstrecken section) there are some historical pics taken in the same position of the following ones.

Photos by Crasher - July 2005

Click on thumbnail to open original large photo

1	2	3	4
The Tower ("Zeitnehmerhaus") and Start/Finish. In the past, in the background there was the paddock for the drivers. Today it’s a driving-school course owned by the ADAC (ADAC Verkehrsübungsplatz)	The Start and Finish Straight. Where you can see the red old house, there were the pitstalls, today it’s nothing more but a entry for the driving course.	A better pic from the pitstalls	Hedersbachkurve

5	6	7	8
From Hedersbachkurve to Elend and Hedersbachebene	From Hedersbachkurve to Elend and Hedersbachebene	Hedersbachebene	Schattengrund. The corner which connects Büsnau to Sandwerk and then over Mahdental (Mahden valley) back to Start/Finish

9	10
Schattengrund	Krumbachtalkurve: the last corner before Start/Finish and the section after Mahdental

Updates
Date	Track layout	Years	Description by	Map by	Thanks to	Note
December 17th 2010			Guido de Carli		Martin Berrang	Update	Description
November 25th 2010			Guido de Carli		Roelard Smit	Update	Description
October 6th 2008			Guido de Carli		Roelard Smit	Update	Description with map
October 3rd 2008			Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli	Lorenzo Tommasi	Update	Description with map
August 20th 2005			Guido de Carli	Guido de Carli		Update	Description with map
August 20th 2005			Guido de Carli		Crasher	Update	Photos (on this site)
July 25th 2005		1935÷1965	Guido de Carli			Update	Photos (link)
January 16th 2005		1935÷1965	Guido de Carli			Update	Description without map
November 17th 2003		1935÷1965	Guido de Carli		Uwe Sautter	Update	Description
September 16th 2002			Guido de Carli			New	Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list

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