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Track * The whole walk, from Sankt-Goarshausen to Wiesbaden. The first three days followed the passage through between Eiffel and Hunsrück on the western, and Westerwals and Taunus on the eastern bank; The second part followed the slopes of the Rheingau range, gently leading down on the middle-Rhine plains. * 1948 x 1084 * (289KB)
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 30-08 * Arriving at the scene, we still had to cross the river. This time, we would cross using the Kaub ferry - a somewhat more comfortable ride to, and from the ferry. The camping site we would stay on is several kilometres south of Lorch - in an area that was named Freistaat Flaschenhals” during some time between the great wars. * (2 Slides) 31-08 * The first walk was the longest and heaviest of all - and the hottest. Sankt-Goarshausen, over the Loreley, Spitznack, Roßstein, and Dorcheid to Kaub. Twice a steep ascend - first to Burg Katz, down to the railroad and steeply going up again to get to the Loreley. Rewarded with stunning open view in both directions. One on top, the walk was fairly even, and Spitznack and Roszstein offer fine views as well. The walk over the plain to Dorcheid ended in a very steep descends to Kaub. * (18 Slides) 01-09 * Second, started in Kaub, steeply uphill, and again, once out of the valley, the walk was fairly even, with an occasional ascend and descend - especially the long one down the Niedertal, and steep down to the river to follow. After Lorch - the stop according the guide, we continued through the vineyards to the camping site, halfway Assmannshausen. * (40 Slides)
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02-09 * Day three - a rather short walk, from the camping site to Assmannshausen. The camping site is somewhat off-route, it means getting back uphill, a long ascend, not steep except for the last ten meters. For the rest, rather flat and mainly between vineyards - quite some of them abandoned: too costly to farm on these hills. * (21 Slides) 03-09 * Day four: Assmannshausen to Johannisberg. This leg bends with the Rhine, eastward, where the Rhine streams wide in the Middle-Rhine plains; the route however keeps height, which means it runs far from the river. Nevertheless, it offers even wider views over a flat area, miles and miles away; Frankfurt is visible on the horizon. We passed the Niederwald memorial - erected to commemorate the founding of the German state in 1870 - and the victory over France that year. Since these sloes are facing south, wine growing is the main agricultural activity in this area. The higher grounds however are covered with woods. The weather forecast said it could rain. Well, it did for the last hour of the walk - it started when we left from the Antonius chapel, and it kept raining all the way back to the camping site. * (22 Slides) 04-09 * Our fifth walk. We started low-level, and walked up the slopes to Kiedrich, following the edges of the woods, where forest meets vineyard. This allows free views over the plains with the river in the background. This is monastery country; we encountered two: Sankt Hildegard, still functional, and Eberbach, now a hotel and conference centre. From Kiedrich, the guide would lead us down to Erbach, back to the river. However, we decided to follow the route to Rauenthal. W e had some trouble finding the right way to get up the hill to the ruin of burg Scharfenstein: it's a narrow stairway, hidden between two houses. This ascend was the only very steep part of this walk. On our descend by bike, the doggy ride hit a ramp and tumbled over.... * (13 Slides) 05-09 * The last leg. we could start at Rauenthal, walk North to Schlangenbad and back South. It needed to be shorter day, for we had to pack for the way back. So we bypassed about 8 kilometres and started the route at a parking place marked with a monstrous tree, and walked over hills and valleys to Frauenstein; from there, the walk continues through vineyards and along fruit trees and gardens to the Schiersteiner Hafen - now a marina. next followed the path on the river bank to the endpoint of the Rheinsteig: the Biebrich Palace. * (20 Slides) Here you will find all tracking files in Garmin's own gdb format, in the generic .gpx format and the basic .csv format
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