Treis-Karden to Niederfell
Rheinland-Pfalz
7. Treis-Karden to Niederfell
Medium
Difficulty5h30
Duration22,5km
Distance+578m
Positive Elevation-591m
Negative ElevationStep
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You start your stage with the only difficulty of the day by going up to the Zilles chapel, then you go down to the bank of the Moselle. Walk on the cycle lane, being careful not to get lost. Observe the left bank of the river this imposing castle in front of Burgen.
2 points of interest
- Tourist
Kreuzweg Zilleskapelle in Treis-Karden
The Zilles Chapel is located on the slope of the Zillesberg. The mountain and the chapel are named after St. Cyriacus. Due to a dialectal error, Cyriakus became Zilles. The chapel was already mentioned around 1100 and later still in 1257. According to various sources, a hermitage was located near the small church, next to the choir, until the 19th century.
A Way of the Cross with half reliefs in the 14 small houses. They are based on pictorial representations from the first half of the 19th century.
Further information: treis-Karden-Mosel.de - Tourist
Church of Saint Sebastian in Burgen
As early as 1075, a church in the castles was called a chapel. Burgen belonged then to the collegiate monastery of Münstermaifeld. Still in the time of the archbishop of Trier, Balduin von Lützelburg, whom we have now met twice, the church in Burgen is called a chapel around 1330, so also in the imperial tax register 1557 again as a chapel. It is only since 1627 that a baptismal and vine register is kept in Burgen - a sign of an independent parish. The oldest part of the church is kept in the sacristy with the four-part cross vault. Its construction dates back to 1550. The sacristy was the choir and the present choir is the chapel hall. In 1766 the new nave was added to the early Gothic choir. It was not until 1827/28 that the west tower with its octagonal helmet followed.
More information : Burgen unter Mosel
Description
From the parking lot of the church in Treis-Karden turn right into Johannesstrasse, at the crossroads turn right into Kastellauner Strasse, a few meters left into the Stations of the Cross and up to Zilleskapelle.
- In front of the chapel turn right, left at the crossroads with Kastellauner Strasse, first road on the left to go around the Zilleskapelle on the edge of the vineyards.
- Turn right onto B 49 Moselstrasse, after 7,000 metres on B 49 turn right in the direction of Burgen city centre, cross the city, Mittelstrasse, Kirchestrasse, Römerstrasse, Schulstrasse, take B 49 Moselstrasse for 12,000 metres.
- In Niederfell leave the B49 before the sports ground, left along the sports ground, In der Heilgärten, right Schulstrasse, first road on the left you reach the St. Lambertus church.
- Departure : Church of St. John the Baptist, Am Plenzer 4, 56253 Treis-Karden
- Arrival : Saint-Lambertus Church, Lambertus Weg, 56332 Niederfell
- Towns crossed : Rheinland-Pfalz
Altimetric profile
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