German Shoe Road

The German shoe street is a tourism serving Theme Road in the southern Rhine Hessen and in the western Palatinate ( state of Rhineland -Palatinate). It runs as a round distance of more than 300 km of largely within the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest - Vosges du Nord, often on of scenic branch lines.

Course

The German shoe street has, inter alia, the following stations:

Alzey, Wendelsheim, Nack, Bechenheim, Nieder-Wiesen, war field, sub- animal Wasen, Basten House Dannenfels, Marienthal, Falkenstein, Enkenbach- Alsenborn, high Speyer, locust Cross, Hauenstein, Dahn, Busenberg, Fischbach, Eppenbrunn, Trulben, Pirmasens, Walshausen, Rieschweiler- Mühlbach, Wallhalben, Mittelbrunn, Landstuhl, Mies Bach, Altenglan, Aschbach, Volume corners, Meis Home, Fürfeld, Wonsheims, Wendelsheim, Alzey

In Pirmasens, the German shoe road splits into several branches that connect and Others Rodalben and forest Fischbach Castle albums and Lviv.

History

The German road shoe was created in 1977 by the Grand Pirmasens area, because there was the center of German shoe industry from the beginning of the 19th century. After the meantime, however, in the wake of globalization, many shoe factories were closed in Germany or have moved their production abroad, the German shoe street is only advertised reserved and belongs to the early 21st century to vacation road less known.

Attractions

Waters - East of Forest Fischbach Castle albums the Schwarzbach is touched with the Clausensee. Also, almost all other sections of the German Shoe road in common is that they run along the waterways of the region. In the Pirmasens area, for example, these are in addition to the Schwarzenbach Queich Wieslauter, Saarbach ( with the reservoir Mühlweiher on Saarbacherhammer ) Rodalb and Merzalbe.

Rock formations - Attractions, partly also for climbers, are the numerous red sandstone rock formations, especially in the Wasgau, among other the Devil's Table and the Jungfernsprung the Dahn Rockland.

Mountains - On the northern part of the route touches the highest with 689 m mountain in the Palatinate, Thunder Mountain, which is lined by five medieval castle ruins.

Castles - Other castles are eg Drachenfels, Berwartstein, Lviv and Gräfenstein. The Heidelburg actually goes back to the Roman times.