Rheinburgenweg - Rheinburgenweg

Rheinstein Castle at Trechtingshausen

The Rheinburgenweg is the high altitude hiking trail on the left bank of the Rhine on the Middle Rhine. The 196 km route starts in Bingen am Rhein on the left side of the slope of the Middle Rhine Valley at Koblenz past Rolandseck, on the border between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. The Rheinburgenweg begins at the mouth of the Nahe, crosses the Moselle and the Ahr.

background

The Rheinburgenweg on the left bank of the Rhine is the counterpart to the one on the right bank of the Rhine Rheinsteig and opened in 2006. Before that there was a Rheinburgenweg on the right bank of the Rhine, but this was abandoned in favor of the Rheinsteig.

preparation

getting there

Every place on the Rhine can be reached with the Mittelrheinbahn, which runs every hour. In addition, the 2-hour regional express trains from Frankfurt to Koblenz stop at Bingen am Rhein, Bacharach, Oberwesel and Boppard. The hourly regional express trains from Koblenz via Bonn Hbf to Emmerich stop in: And afterwards, Bad Breisig, Sinzig, Remagen, Upper winter and Bonn-Bad Godesberg.

Map of Rheinburgenweg

Hiking / Let's go / ...

Bingerbrück - Trechtingshausen

Difficulty: medium, distance: 10.6 km, ascent: 422 m, descent: 370 m.

  • Access from the Kulturufer in Bingen, near the Hildegard Museum and the 1 Passenger ferry to Rudesheim, past the 2 Bingen Central Station.
  • 3 Start on Koblenzer Straße (B9), opposite the park at the Mäuseturm.
  • 4 Mountain Prinzenkopf (210 m)
  • Steckschläferklamm
  • Morgenbachtal
  • 5 Swiss house - beautiful vantage point (200 m) over the Rhine Assmannshausenbut bad restoration.
  • 6 Rheinstein Castle
  • 7  Reichenstein Castle (at the southern end of the village Trechtingshausen.). Reichenstein Castle in the Wikipedia encyclopediaReichenstein Castle in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsReichenstein Castle (Q581762) in the Wikidata database.

Trechtingshausen - Bacharach

  • Access from the parking lot on the B9 at the southern end of Trechtingshausen

2. Stage: Difficulty: difficult, distance: 21.6 km, ascent: 629 m, descent: 683 m

  • Trechtingshausen, place
  • Köhlsche Wiese
  • 1 Siebenburgenblick observation tower
  • 2 Sooneck Castle
Bacharach Old Cologne court
  • 3 Heimburg in Niederheimbach or Hohneck Castle
  • Oberdiebach
  • 4 Fürstenberg castle ruins
  • Winzberg
  • Medenscheid
  • Neurath
  • 5 Stahleck Castle
  • → Round tour of the Stahlberg loop - From Malerwinkel below Stahleck Castle, past Steeg into the Borbach Valley and back over the Stahlberg Castle ruins. Distance: 12.7 km, ascent and descent: 770 m, duration: 4:00 h, highest point: 352 m
  • 6 Bacharach Altkölnischer Hof, Blücher Str .; St. Peter, Oberstrasse
    • 7 Market gate and city wall path

Bacharach - Oberwesel

View from the lookout point Blücherblick to Pfalzgrafenstein Castle

3. Stage: Difficulty: medium, distance: 13.3 km, ascent: 498 m, descent: 500 m

  • Bacharach Malerwinkel and Steeger Tor
  • 1 City wall path
  • Leimbachtal
  • Blücherblick
  • Branch to the Kauber ferry
  • Sauzahn Hut
  • Pfalzblickhütte
  • 2 Schönburg above Oberwesel
  • Elfenley Rock Path
  • Oberwesel

Oberwesel - St. Goar

4. Stage: Difficulty: medium, distance: 8.8 km, ascent: 404 m, descent: 396 m

  • Oberwesel
  • Elfenley
  • → 1 Detour Günderodehaus, lookout point
  • Galgenbachtal
  • 1 Oelsbergsteig or sculpture path
  • 2 Lookout point
  • 3 Loreley view Maria Ruh
  • Seelenbachtal
  • 4 Lookout point
  • 5 Kretschhütte, viewpoint on St. Goar
  • Lohbachtal
  • St. Goar

St. Goar - Bad Salzig

5th stage: Difficulty: difficult, distance: 19.0 km, ascent: 644 m, descent: 624 m, duration: 6:00 h, highest point: 307 m (Taunusblickhütte near Holzfeld)

  • St. Goar, train station
  • 3 Rheinfels fortress
  • 2 Werlauer Pilz lookout point
  • 3 View over furs
  • Heimbachtal
  • Taunusblickhütte
  • Wood field
  • 4 Probsteigarten Hirzenach
  • Hirzenach Alpine Path
  • Donkey trail
  • View of Ziehlay near Weiler
  • 5 Source pavilion Bad Salty

Bad Salzig - Boppard - Rhens

6th stage: Difficulty: medium, distance: 15.6 km, ascent: 523 m, descent: 533 m, duration: 4:00 h, highest point: 326 m (Breyer Wald)

  • Bad Salzig spring pavilion
  • View "Stone Man"
  • Hut on the ironwood
  • Boppard Waterfront
  • Middle Rhine via ferrata
  • → 1 Chairlift mountain station Hirschkopf (302m) near the Vierseenblick
  • 1 Restaurant with panoramic terrace Gedoenseck
  • 2 Four lakes view
  • Jakobsberg junction
  • View of the Marksburg
  • 8 Cattle gate and city wall Rhens
    • Historic town center "Flecke" with market place, "Ochsenbrunnen" and many half-timbered houses
    • King's chair by Rhens

Rhens - Koblenz

7th stage: Difficulty: medium, distance: 13.2 km, ascent: 565 m, descent: 495 m, duration: 5:30 h, highest point: 352 m (Merkur temple)

  • Cattle gate Rhens
  • King's chair
  • Mercury temple
  • Stolzenfels Castle
  • Weidgenhöhe
  • Dommelsberghütte
  • Knight fall

Access:

  • Empress Augusta plant
  • Electoral Palace
  • German Corner Koblenz

Lower Middle Rhine Valley

Koblenz - Winningen: 14.6 km

8th stage: Difficulty: medium, ascent: 348 m, descent: 423 m, duration: 5:00 h, highest point: 318 m (Remsteck parking lot)

  • Knight fall
  • Forest crossing "light oak"
  • Forsthaus Kühkopf
  • Fort house Remsteck
  • Schwedenschanze
  • Karthaus
  • Moselle bridge
  • Guls
  • Marketplace Winningen

Winningen - Bassenheim: 9.7 miles / 15.7 km

9. E $ tappe: Difficulty: medium, ascent: 586 m, descent: 463 m, duration: 6:00 h, highest point: 286 m (Karmelenberg church)

  • Winningen
  • View of the Domgartenhütte
  • Blumslay
  • Clouds
  • → 3.2 km long detour: Karmelenbergschleife over the avenue of trees to the Kamelienberg, resting place in the former volcanic vent.
  • Bassenheim

Stage Bassenheim - And afterwards: 13.7 km

10th stage: Difficulty: easy, ascent: 208 m, descent: 256 m, duration: 4:00 h, highest point: 223 m (panoramic view near Pfaffenbrucher Hof)

Andernach - Bad Breisig: 19.5 km

11th stage: Difficulty: medium, ascent: 815 m, descent: 905 m, duration: 6:30 h, highest point: 318 m (Hohe Buche)

  • And afterwards
  • Hochkreuz
  • Refuge Siebengebirgsblick
  • Namedy
  • Geopath "Hohe Buche"
  • Donkey trail
  • Vulkanexpress train station
  • Brohl-Lützing
  • Augustaburg Castle
  • Reuterslay
  • Rheineck Castle
  • Vinxbachtal
  • Marian column
  • Bad Breisig

Bad Breisig - Sinzig − Remagen: 15.7 km

12th stage: Difficulty: medium, ascent: 340 m, descent: 336 m, duration: 5:00 h, highest point: 206 m (Mönchsheide)

  • Bad Breisig, Brunnenstrasse
  • Rooster plate
  • Avenue of Trees of the Year
  • Mönchsheide
  • Sinzig
    • → train station
    • Sinzig park
    • Barbarossa monument
    • Sinzig Castle
  • Bad Bodendorf
    • → train station
  • Earplate
  • Hubertushof
  • Waldburg ruins
  • Remagen

Remagen - Rolandseck - Rolandsbogen: 14.0 km

13. Stage: Difficulty: medium, ascent: 530 m, descent: 436 m, duration: 4:30 h, highest point: 215 m (refuge above the zoo)

  • Remagen, Fürstenbergstrasse northwest of the train station
  • Apollinaris Church,
  • Forest lake
  • Taubenbachtal
  • Bandorf
  • Upper winter
    • → train station
  • Bandorf Valley
  • Kasselbachtal
  • Rolandseck
    • → train station
    • Arp Museum
  • Rolandswerther Bach
  • Roland's Arch

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