welcome to the moselle VENUES AND OFFERS IN THE HOLIDAY REGION BERNKASTEL-KUES Dear Readers, All you want to do is escape. Escape from everyday life as quickly as possible. How wonderful would it be if you ended up in our holiday destination in Bernkastel-Kues. Here you have plenty of everything to make your holiday worthwhile. Nature, culture, honest hospitality. Not enough? Do you want more? No problem. Then, you should take a lot of time off . The reason being that here you can do things that you should do more often. Spread out a blanket near the banks of a river and enjoy a picnic. Simply enjoy one day doing all the things you love. Go paddling for an hour in a canoe. Wander through the vineyards and smell the vines. Enjoy a view over the city, countryside and river from the top of the hills. Pursue your dreams while enjoying a glass of wine on the terrace. Squint lazily in the bright sun from the chaise longue. Finally bring peace and leisure back into your life. And whistle on a blade of grass. This makes your heart light and gives you energy. ALWAYS THERE WHEN YOU NEED US The team at the holiday destination Bernkastel-Kues in the Moselle-Guest-Centre, Gestade 6 in D-54470 Bernkastel-Kues, Phone +49(0)6531-500190, Email in- LIFE IS A LONG PEACEFUL RIVER. [email protected], www.bernkastel.de 2 THE HOLIDAY REGION LIFE IS A LONG PEACEFUL RIVER. This is what happens when you let yourself drift. WHAT ELSE? Time seems to stand still. What is a minute, an hour, a day? More information about the towns in the holiday region: Phone +49(0)6531-500190, [email protected], www.bernkastel.de OUR TIP: for more interesting and diverse cycling and hiking tours, visit www.mosel-radreisen.de and www.wandern-mosel.de 4 THE HOLIDAY REGION VOLCANIC ROCKS AND MOSELLE WINE The GPS says I need exactly 27 Daun - Bernkastel-Kues - Koblenz minutes from Wintrich to Lösnich. The Eifel-Moselle cycling tour takes you I need less than half an hour to through various landscapes. You start out in get to know my holiday the Vulkaneifel region, where you will see region. That is doable. It is supposed the famous maars and volcanoes. The to be really nice there. “Romantic downhill Maare-Moselle cycle route takes Middle Moselle“ and such. On my you to the magnificent Moselle valley. way to paradise. Services included ➔ 4 overnight stays with breakfast ➔ 1 traditional Eifel region dinner with a glass of beer ➔ 1 regional 3-course meal on the Moselle ➔ 1 wine tasting with commentary ➔ shopping voucher for Bernkastel-Kues Now I am right in the middle. Truly right ➔ detailed information material and maps (1 per room) in the middle, that is to say on a Moselle Additional services to be booked separately luggage transfer, steamboat. When you‘re on holiday you return transfer, hire bikes Date Easter to end of October; are supposed to take your time so I quickly decided to trade in my wheels for this ship. arrival on Sundays Spectacular! I am sitting out in the open Price and below me I can feel the silent throb of the diesel motors, and I am surrounded by Double room from 299 Single room from 349 murmuring water. The fi rst impression was surprising: I really am right in the middle. The question of whether I should drive on the right or the left side of the riverbank was now irrelevant. The river no longer SHORT TRIP – CYCLING FUN separates but draws together. The right and left riverbanks create one whole, the entire ON THE MOSELLE RIVER world around me is focused on one point, Explore the Bernkastel-Kues holiday region and I happen to be sitting in it. Calmly the by bike! Take a cycling tour along the ship tugs along, time slows down more and Maare-Moselle cycle route or cycle along the more, in the meantime, it no longer plays a role. Like an enormous panoramic photo, Moselle cycle route to Traben-Trarbach with the Moselle valley rolls past with common its well-known Belle Epoque buildings. changes of scenery from steep slopes and soft terraces perched inside river bends. Services included ➔ 3 overnight stays with breakfast Interrupted by small pasture landscapes ➔ 1 wine tasting with commentary ➔ individual cycle by the riverbanks and just like a pearl on tour up and down the Moselle river (approx. 25 km) a string, the small wine-growing regions ➔ return by ship to your resort (incl. bicycle transport) are strung together with their romantic ➔ coffee & cake at Machern monastery ➔ 1 entertaining timbered houses and the maze of small sightseeing tour of Bernkastel-Kues with audio guide cobblestone alleys. I no longer count the (only in English and German) ➔ 1 ride on the panorama hours, the impatient minutes or kilometres. Time and speed are no longer a burden railway in Bernkastel-Kues > detailed information material but rather a pleasure. On the way back, and maps (1 per room) Date Easter to end of October; I don‘t turn on the GPS. It would be very Arrival any day disappointed to fi nd out that you can‘t really expect any true directions from it when it Price comes to fi nding your way in life. To fi nd Double room from 185 this path, you need a long peaceful river. Single room from 215 Your booking hotline +49(0)6531-500195 [email protected] 5 THE HOLIDAY REGION THE “FANTASTIC FOUR“ The Holiday Destination and its Regions. Four regions greatly differ from each other. With all their differences they create the “fantastic four“ yet continue to be one entity: the holiday destination of Bernkastel-Kues. LOCATION THE MOSELLE VILLAGES Since time immemorial the Moselle and the Moselle valley has been the main arterial road of the state. People have settled in this location since the Stone Age, mainly in the proximity of the mouths of streams and small rivers with fresh water. Here, there was always through traffi c. Merchants and soldiers prevented stagnation and always forced people to come to terms with new situations. Celts, Romans, Franconians, French, Prussians, Americans and the guests today brought their convictions, ideas and behaviours along. They shaped the race of people in the Moselle, who fundamentally did not refuse the new but confronted foreigners openly. Since the Romans brought wine to the Moselle, winegrowing and wine trade have become the EXPLORING dominating economic factors. One was and still is dependent on establishing contact with others. The mild climate supports the culture, in which music sets the tone rather than enforcing pretensions to power. Winegrowing, particularly in the steep THE HOLIDAY REGION slopes of the Moselle is a hard job. The people know a certain prosperity does not just fall into one‘s lap. The extremely well- A spontaneous short trip to the Bernkastel- kept small villages with the lovingly maintained timbered houses and the good conditions of the dry masonry in the steep Kues holiday region… why not? Get to know slopes of the vineyards are a highly discussed example of this culture. the various facets of Bernkastel-Kues. 1 Services included ➔ 3 overnight stays with breakfast ➔ 1 ride on the Burg-Landshut Express to the castle ruin and back ➔ 1-hour boat trip on the Moselle ➔ 1 visit to the multimedia “WeinErlebnisWelt“ wine world of the Wine Culture Centre Date Easter to end of October; Arrival any day Price Double room from 149 Single room from 179 THE COUNTY The “county“ is a world of its own. The affi liation to a long lost former county Veldenz has, to this Your booking hotline +49(0)6531-500195 day, had an impact on the self-conception and the strong self-confi dence of the people of the [email protected] county. Originally, the county included the municipals of Veldenz, Andel, Brauneberg, Burgen, Gornhausern and Mülheim. It is accessible from Mülheim: you drive to Veldenz through a wide picturesque valley which is shaped by winegrowing, meadows, orchards and fi elds. Next to Veldenz which is equal in beauty to the Moselle villages, there are castles in the wide meadow and vineyard landscape of the Moselle high plateau. “Castles located on the most beautiful cul-de-sac of the Middle Moselle“ and because of its 19 bridges the “Small Venice of the Middle Moselle“ is what this remote place which is valued by hikers has been named by tourists. When you drive from Veldenz on to the Serpentinenstraße up into Hunsrück you will reach Gornhausen on a plateau. 6 3 THE MOSELLE-HUNSRÜCK A striking contrast programme to the Moselle is the Hunsrück. Behind Bernkastel, the road winds up in nar- row loops up towards the wooded mountain slope. When arriving at the top, the forest opens up and bears a hilly Ürzig open landscape which is only occasionally separated in Röm. Kelter Erden the square comprised of Monzelfeld, Longkamp, Kommen, Erden Hochscheid and Kirchspiel Kleinich with smaller wooded Lösnich areas. We are now four to fi ve-hundred metres above the 1 Moselle. Widespread forests are located in the part of the Zeltingen-Rachtig mountain which separates Kirchspiel Kleinich from the Kloster Machern county and is hidden far behind Gornhausen in the Huns- rück. It is its own, remote world which is only a few kilo- Wehlen metres away from an international tourist centre. In the Siebenborn Graach villages with their farms, life passes by at a comfortable Röm. Kelter Noviand pace. Whoever is looking for 100% nature, peace and Maring-Noviand quiet in a charming getaway has come to the right place.