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Rhineland-Palatinate

Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Kruchten

Maasch Chapel – Kewenig Castle loop from Kruchten

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Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate

Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Kruchten

Maasch Chapel – Kewenig Castle loop from Kruchten

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Maasch Chapel – Kewenig Castle loop from Kruchten

02:07

31.3km

450m

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Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 18, 2026

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8.50 km

Maasch Chapel

Highlight (Segment) • Religious Site

Very beautiful section through the Southern Eifel Nature Park.

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9.35 km

According to local legend, the Ascension Day procession originated as a thanksgiving procession during the plague. However, according to the parish chronicle, the origins of the current form of the procession date back to the 18th century, when Mettendorf still belonged to Prüm Abbey. Until 1757, the citizens made an annual pilgrimage to Prüm. This was followed by the French Revolution, during which no procession took place. The custom was reintroduced around 1850. Today, the pilgrimage on this day leads to the field shrine "Maasch Kapellchen."

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10.6 km

Village Square Mettendorf

Highlight • Settlement

Mettendorf is a village-shaped township in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in the southern Eifel.
The first written mention dates from 832 in the Golden Book of the Abbey Echternach. There Mettendorf is listed under the name Machconvillare.
Further names exist with metendorph (1063), mectindorf (1345), villa metendorp (1360), mettendoirff (1451), meittendorf (1563) and Mettendorf (since 1621).

First, the place belonged to the Abbey Prüm before he came in 1220 to the Luxembourg County of Vianden. Here Mettendorf was then the seat of a jury and the main place of a dairy egg. Count Henry I of Vianden handed the place in 1248 to the brought into the country Trinitarierorden, who built in 1477 after Viandener template also a two-nave church. After the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands, to which Luxembourg belonged, by French revolutionary troops, the town became French in 1795 and belonged to the Forest Department.
In 1815 he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. After the First World War temporarily occupied again French, the place is since 1946 part of the then newly formed country Rhineland-Palatinate.

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13.2 km

Roter Puhl Sandstone Cliffs on the Enz

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At the "Roter Puhl" the Enz has cut the beech slope at a stately height. Here, in bright orange-red colors, the middle red sandstone rock of the Triassic geologic age can be seen. These deposits in river and delta areas are about 220 million years old.

The oblique stratification of the sandstone visible in the bedrock in alternating layers with horizontal strata and gravel bands testifies to the different flow conditions of the primordial waters. The arch's shape is the result of thousands of years of exposure to water from the meandering Enz River.

The surface of the rock face is still subject to constant weathering, in places the rock is slightly more porous. An interesting insight into the floor structure can be obtained in the upper part. The overlying Earths here only reach a thickness of less than a meter. Natural crevices provide nesting and breeding grounds for the kingfisher, which is native to the area.

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