The Schottenring was a motorsport race track situated near Schotten in the Vogelsbergkreis of Hesse, between Fulda and Gießen.
After Nürburgring, Schleizer Dreieck, Solituderennen and AVUS, it was one of Germany's oldest race tracks, inaugurated on 22 July 1925.
[1] In 1953, partially as the result of a compromise between Germany's two controlling bodies, the DMV and the ADAC,[2] it was selected to host the German motorcycle Grand Prix.
[2] It was bordered on many fast corners by trees and had a track surface so slippery at the most dangerous points that it would be disastrous to run a championship event there.
[2] Racing was discontinued after 1956, but rallies, classic bikes and hillclimbing events are still held on a shortened version.