Happy Moselle

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Cyclists on the L 98 with a view of the Reichsburg Cochem across the Moselle.

Happy Mosel was an annual car-free experience day along the Mosel Wine Route in Rhineland-Palatinate . The event was first committed in 1992. The event took place for the last time on June 11, 2017.

Happy Mosel took place for the first time in 2010 on a route of 180 kilometers between Winningen and Schweich and had 104,000 participants in 2009 (still between Cochem and Schweich on around 140 km) according to the organizer. The streets were completely closed to motorized traffic and left to cyclists, inline skaters and hikers. Happy Mosel took place on the first Sunday after Pentecost and was the biggest road closure in Europe at the time. The car-free adventure day took place on May 3rd in 2009 because the planned June 7th, 2009 would have coincided with the local and European elections. All locations, including those in the restricted area, could be reached by car. In most places there was a festival all day long and many hotels offered flat rates for the weekend.

In the last few years before the event was closed, not only was the closing time from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. to 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., but the route was also roughly halved. In even years the event took place from Schweich to Reil (81 km) and in odd years from Pünderich to Winningen (85 km). The total of the sections of two consecutive years had become shorter because not all roads on both sides of the river were closed; so the joint section of the B 53 with the B 50 (here also E 42 ) was excluded. The non-motorized participants could move from the left to the right bank of the Moselle, but had to share the bridges with the motor vehicles.

There are similar action days on other dates on the Rhine ( Tal Total and RheinRadeln ), Sieg (Siegtal Pur), Saar (Saar-Pedal), Ruwer and Aar ( Fahr zur Aar ).

Web links

Commons : Happy Mosel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Off for Happy Mosel, Saar pedal continues. In: volksfreund.de. May 3, 2016, accessed April 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Information on the 25th anniversary of Happy Mosel for the last implementation. In: happy-mosel.de. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .