Hunsrück
Hiking Trails
1. Forest Playground (difficulty: easy)
Kastellaun – Hiking parking spot – forest playground – Burgstadt Mobilpark – Cycling trail – finish (Train station Kastellaun)
2. Uhler Kopf (difficulty: middle)
Health and Fitnesspark – Kastellaun Lake – Hikinh parking spot “Bornig” – Uhler Kopf – Kläranlage – Kastellaun Lake – Fitnesspark – finish
3. Drei Täler Weg (difficulty: hard)
Health and Fitnesspark – Kastellaun Lake – Hikinh parking spot “Bornig” – Kaiserweiher – Junkersmühle – Kläranlage – Kastellaun Lake – Fitnesspark – finish
Cycling Trails
Kastellaun is the centre of an extensive and well signed cycle path network with varied landscapes and a lot of ups and downs.
Schinderhannes Radweg ( 38 Km )
On the old railway trail between Simmern, Kastellaun and Emmelshausen.
Emmelshausen, Lamscheid, Leiningen, Pfalzfeld, Lingerhahn, Ebschied, Hollnich, Kastellaun, Bell, Hasselbach, Alterkülz, Neuerkirch, Külz, Keidelheim, Simmern
Hunsrück Mosel Radweg ( 29 Km )
From Kastellaun to Treis-Karden
Kastellaun, Uhler, Mannebach, Dommershausen, Zilshausen, Petershäuserhof, Lieg, Lütz, Treis-Karden
Kastellaun
The City of Kastellaun offers various leisure and cultural activities.
Per example: enlarged hiking and biking trails, climbing-fun in a course in the forest, barefoot path, fitness- and health centre, swimming pool, castle and city guides in the historic downtown, museums, summer festival at the castle grounds, Minigolf facilities, tennis and riding courts.
Rhein
Boppard
At the junction of Rhein and Mosel, worldwide known as the Deutsches Eck lies this old and beautiful city. Boppard is surrounded by four uplands with forests, greens and lakes lands which build a beautiful and unique frame for this city.
Bacharach
Bacharach is 871 mentioned on an official document for the first time. The city owes his reputation to viticulture and wine trade. Even in the middle Ages was the city known as the main stacking place for the wines from Mittelrhein, Nahe und Rheingau, therefor it’s a well-known wine location.
Sehenswürdigkeiten :
- ‚Altes Haus‘
- Marketplace
- Wernerkapelle
- Protestant church ‚St. Peter‘
- Castle Stahleck
- Zollhof with the catholic church ‘St. Nikolaus’
- Kupfälzische Münze
- Kurpfälzer Amtskeller (now City hall)
- Largely preserved city fortification (ring wall and towers)
- Numerous picturesque timber framing houses in Bacharach and the district Steeg
- Protestant church ‚St. Anna‘ in Steeg
- Castle ruin Stahlberg in Steeg, Roman roads in ‚Kühlberg‘
Rüdesheim
Rüdesheim lays on the sunny side of the Rhein, it’s surrounded by vineyards of the finest Rheingau-Riesling wines. With it’s beautiful and romantic riverside, Rüdesheim proofs on the first look, why it’s one of the best known places at the Rhein.
Historic interested people will find their pleasure at this Rhein city, you can find the virtuosity of the Rheingauer noble families and a few masterpieces of the timber framing houses.
Koblenz
At the junction of Rhein and Mosel, worldwide known as the Deutsches Eck lies this old and beautiful city.
Koblenz is surrounded by four uplands with forest, green and lakes lands which build a beautiful and unique frame for this city.
Mosel
Trier
The Porta Nigra offers the optimal starting point to explore the city.
It’s the best preserved roman city gate north of the Alpes. A matchless connection between the antique history of the city and the modern city of today.
Bernkastel-Kues
Enjoy the unmatched atmosphere of an historic downtown full of History and Culture. The traces left by the Romans can still be seen in the city today. Bernkastel-Kues is also the place of birth of the well-known scholar Nikolaus of Kues.
Try the outstanding wine directly by the vintner or let you be enchanted by the local cuisine.
Nahe
Idar-Oberstein
A multifarious city with heart.
In Idar-Oberstein you can experience a lot. You have unlimited options. Follow the way of the gemstones, starting at the gem mine Steinkaulenberg across the historic Weiherschleife to the museums of the city and enjoy the atmosphere of this special city.
Here you can discover high-carat! Where else can you witness the earth history more closely than in the gem mine in Steinkaulenberg, discover testimonials of the industrial revolution, explore world-famous museums and be told fabulous and unique tales.
