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Moselle Valley

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     One of our favourite places, Sue and I stayed here on our
​     first holiday together before we married. Since then, we
     have visited many times.

​      We particularly enjoy the Moselle Valley in the Autumn,
​      when the autumn colours are spectacular, the grapes are
​      being harvested and the new wine is on sale!

​      Almost every village has a stellplatz and there are
​      opportunities to stroll round the village and walk, or cycle,
​      along the river bank and up into the vineyards.

​      The towns and villages are delightful with good shopping
​      and lots of wonderful restaurants and bratwurst stalls.

​       But perhaps one of the pleasantest experiences is just
​       sitting by the river bank, watching the boats go by.

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​Our drive down the Moselle started with a shopping trip in Trier. Sue wanted more photo albums. She always buys her photo albums in Germany, in fact, on several occasions, we have driven to Germany just to buy photo albums!
Founded by the Celts in the late-4th century BC and later conquered by the Romans, Trier may be the oldest city in Germany.
​Trier's Roman ruins are particularly impressive. The Porta Nigra, the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps, ruins of three Roman baths, the amphitheatre and the huge Constantine Basilica which  is now used as a Protestant Church. 

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​​The winemaking village of Neumagen was founded by the Romans 2,000 years ago. A copy of the Neumagen Wine Ship, carved out of stone, and a modern reproduction are on display.
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Visited Bernkastel with its mediaeval marketplace, gabled 17th century timber-framed houses and town gate, the Graacher Tor.  Above the town are the ruins of Castle Landshut, former summer residence of the Archbishops of Trier.
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Zeltingen and nearby Ürzig and Erden are surrounded by vineyards on a great bend in the river. At Erden, we came across a wonderful display of gourds!

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Stayed on the stellplatz at Pünderich​, located directly on the Moselle and adjacent to the ferry. Showers and toilets were available at the campsite next door. Pünderich had very early on a relationship to the Marienburg, a now dissolved Augustinian convent. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Pünderich  had 56 winepressing centres and its townsmen were said to be among the wealthiest on the Moselle.

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Zell is only an hour’s drive from Trier, but it had taken us several days to get there!
Founded by the Romans, Zell was granted town rights in 1222. In 1794,  with the occupation of the Rhine's  left bank by French Revolutionary Troops,  the town became French. In 1814 Zell was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia. Fires in 1848 and 1857 destroyed a great deal of the Old Town.
In 1794 nearby Ediger and Eller were also under French rule and in 1815 they were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia. Ediger-Eller has the world’s steepest vineyard, the Calmont, with a slope of 65% and Germany’s longest railway tunnel, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel, at 4 205 m.


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The small village of Beilstein has one of the best preserved historical appearances on the Moselle and is thus also sometimes known as a miniature Rothenburg ob der Tauber  or Dornröschen der Mosel (“Sleeping Beauty of the Moselle”). Towering above the village, which despite its small size is built to look much like a town, are the ruins of Castle Metternich.
The village is a pilgrimage site, for it is here that the “Miraculous Black Madonna” is displayed in the Baroque Saint Joseph’s Monastery Church.
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Our final stop before leaving the Moselle was Cochem.​
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    • Introductions
    • Contact
  • Our Adventures
  • Touring the World in your motorhome
  • Our First Trip
    • Iceland >
      • Baltic Cruise
      • Faroe Islands
  • Moselle Valley
    • North America >
      • Route 66
      • National Parks >
        • Alaska & Yukon
      • West Coast
      • Alaska Highway
      • Dempster Highway
      • Canadian Rockies
      • Great Lakes & St Lawrence River
      • Quebec
      • New Brunswick & PEI
      • Nova Scotia
  • Christmas Markets
  • God's Own Country
    • Three Peaks of Yorkshire
    • Greece and Turkey >
      • Turkey
      • France and the Pyrenees
    • Romantische Straße
    • Scafell Pike
    • Great Plains
  • Syria & Jordan
  • From the Tropic of Cancer to the Arctic Circle
    • Morocco and Western Sahara
    • Gibralter, Portugal & Spain
    • Denmark, Norway, Finland and Svalbard
  • Sue wants some more Photo Albums!
  • Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily
  • Southern Africa
    • South Africa
    • Namibia
    • Botswana
    • Zambia
    • Tanzania
    • Kenya
    • Malawi
    • Mozambique
    • Zimbabwe
    • Swaziland
    • Lesotho
  • Ireland at Last!
    • Game of Thrones
    • Belfast
  • Balkans Revisited
  • America 2016
    • New England
    • Eastern Seaboard
    • Florida and the Deep South
    • Music Cities USA
    • North to Canada
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Return to Nova Scotia
  • Ypres Salient
  • On the Road Again
    • Heading East
    • Heading back West
    • Romantische Straße
    • Deutsche Märchenstraße
    • Homeward Bound
  • Nicolle meets her twin sister!
  • Down Under
    • Western Australia
    • Northern Territory
    • Queensland
    • New South Wales
    • Canberra
    • Victoria
    • Tasmania
    • Great Ocean Road
    • South Australia
    • Return to Wetern Australia
  • New Zealand
    • South Island
  • Highlands & Islands
    • Outer Hebrides
    • Harris and Lewis
    • Skye
    • Scotland 500
    • Orkney
    • Homeward Bound
  • Germany 2020 - A Trip down Memory Lane
  • North to Northumberland – and a little beyond!
  • Theft of Nicolle
  • Nouvelle Nicolle
  • South Wales 2022
  • North Wales and Northern England
  • France and Germany 2022
  • Nicolle meets Hamish
  • West Country 2023
  • Brittany and Normandy
  • Cromer and Sheringham 2024
  • Belgium and Germany 2024
  • Germany and Denmark 2024
  • Farewell to Nouvelle Nicolle
  • Our New Motorhome
  • Sandringham December 2024