Leg 1: Orscholz - Mettlach - Britten
The trail begins spectacularly with the magnificent view onto the famous Saar Bend. It then winds over paths with ever new panoramas down into the Saar Valley to Mettlach, where the hiker can see the "Earth Spirit," the largest ceramic puzzle in the world, the 1,000-year-old "Old Tower," and the Old Abbey with the Ceramic Museum of Villeroy & Boch and the atmospheric park. The winding trail continues over natural paths on a ridge with lovely view over the Saar Valley near Saarhölzbach. The path descends into the bizarrely romantic Saarhölzbach Valley, where the trail winds almost exclusively over narrow paths through the narrow valley of the Saarhölzbach.
Tourist Informations underway:
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Tourist Info in Orscholz
Cloef-Atrium
66693 Mettlach-Orscholz
Telephone: 06865/9115100
Internet: www.tourist-info.mettlach.de
Location: about 1400 ft/400 m before the start
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. -
Tourist Info Mettlach
Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 64
66693 Mettlach
Telephone: 06864/8907999
Internet: www.tourist-info.mettlach.de
Location: in the Mettlach town hall about 656 ft/200 m from the Climb
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 15:00 p.m.
Parking:
Orscholz Saar Bend, Mettlach at the Brauhaus, Britten at the B 268
Dream Loops:
The hiker can walk through the loveliest sections of this leg as a circular trail via the "Saarschleife-Tafeltour" in Mettlach and den "Steinhauerweg" in Britten.
Overnight accommodations on the Leg 1:
in Orscholz, Mettlach, and Britten
Overview of accommodations hosts
Sights:
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Mettlach:
Mettlach Abbey Park, The Old Tower, Benedictine Abbey, the Earth Spirit and the largest ceramic puzzle in the world, Keravision World at Villeroy & Boch, Montclair Castle, the fountain by Schinkel in the Abbey park, the Mettlach lock and dam, St. Lutwin's Church
