Celtic path Nahe – Mosel
The Nahe-Mosel Celtic Trail is a long-distance hiking trail across the Hunsrück .
In the Hunsrück there are many traces of prehistoric times ( Hunsrück-Eifel culture of the Celtic Treveri ) and the Roman times in the forests and on the heights not reached by agriculture . Today they are touristy developed and marketed.
One can fall back on early road and path connections. If these routes are used by traffic roads today ( federal road 421 near Kirchberg and continued as state road 184 to Kirn), one turns to parallel field and forest paths. The Keltenweg leads over the (dry) heights and thus mostly past the villages that lie on the spring horizon. His waymark is a white K on a green background.
The Celtic Path begins on the Nahe in Kirn (Pankratius Church), then it goes through the Hahnenbachtal and climbs up near Oberhausen through the Lützelsoon to the Teufelsfels with an observation tower and a view of the ring wall of the Altburg above the Hahnenbachtal. The Soonwaldsteig , which runs from west to east, is crossed here. Through Woppenroth and past Dickenschied it goes to Hecken , in whose area Bannholz there is a large barrow field with three groups of graves and about 130 burial mounds. The largest hill still reaches a height of 30 m today. Some groups of hills are surrounded by a moat. At the stage destination (20 km) Kirchberg , the oldest town in the Hunsrück, the route crosses the Roman road from Bingen to Neumagen and Trier (the Roman Augusta Treverorum ), which is now called Ausoniusstraße after it was mentioned in his travelogue . It also runs dead straight in Kirchberg's center, as is usual with Roman roads.
From Kirchberg the hiking trail runs parallel to the federal road 421 (to Kappel ) through the Kirchberg city forest over the Kronenberg (505 m) on the edge through the Faas forest to the road that comes from the Faas forestry office, crossing the Hunsrückhöhenstraße at the Hasensteil (525 m) (tumulus in the Faas opposite the Blümlingshof inn about 300 m away) north-east past Kappel, crossing state road 226 to the vicinity of Reidenhausen . A mighty Celtic barrow can be seen there with the clay hill. The path leads directly to the edge of the forest on the hill. The stage finish is Mittelstrimmig (18 km). Strimmig has a local museum that is open in summer in an old mill.
After Mittelstrimmig, the path remains on the ridge, then goes at the Weißmühle (ruin) on a bridge from 1850 over the Flaumbach and on the Moselle heights then meets the archaeological hiking trail Bruttig-Fankel with many information boards on archaeological sights. The goal is Treis and Karden on the other side of the Moselle (18 km).
Alternatively, before Haserich , you can hike westwards via Blankenrath , Hesweiler , Moritzheim , Grenderich with a steep descent to the Moselle near Senheim and from there over the Moselle heights to Beilstein and Treis / Karden. This path can also be walked as a circular route with the main route, for example from Karden.
literature
Iris Müller: Hike Celtic footsteps: on the new Celtic hiking trail from Kirchberg via Kirn to Karden . In: Hunsrückverein (ed.) 2003 , 2002, pp. 41–44.