Towpath

As a towpath or towpath, Bomätscherpfad (Saxony), Treppelweg ( Austria ) or Reckweg ( Switzerland ), a way is directly referred to the river bank, which was created to help people and draft animals were able to move (eg horses) wooden cargo ships upstream. Also, on the banks of channels to find such paths. The operation was called treideln. The vessels were connected by a rope with the previous on the towpaths Treidelpferden and Treidlern.

The Treidelschifffahrt was only after the advent of machine-driven ships and tugboats to an end. Until the 1980s, the entry of the former towpaths was permitted only at your own risk. They are subject to the present day management of the Waterways and Shipping Offices (ESC). For most of the towpaths waterfronts, bike and hiking trails or service roads of the Waterways and Shipping Administration have now become.

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Germany / Austria

In Germany, the towpath along the Rhine from Basel is almost completely preserved up to the Netherlands. It is used as a leisure walk of pedestrians and cyclists.

Also at the Ruhr between Duisburg and Witten the towpath is also almost entirely present. On the Ruhr Ruhraaken were towed from 1780 to the mid-19th century. He is about 75 km away a section of the Kaiser- route and RuhrtalRadweg. The towpath below the Isenbergs, the lip - Treidlerdorf Krudenburg and other parts belong to the Route of Industrial Heritage.

Along the Danube the towpath over long stretches of Bavaria is obtained on both banks to Romania and expanded as the Danube cycle path to Budapest.

Along the channel Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria the towpath is also expanded as a bike path.

Also along the Salzach, Inn and Traun, there are tow paths, which go back to the heyday of the thriving salt trade from Hall in Tirol, Bad Reichenhall, Hallein and the Salzkammergut.

On a Weserbogen at Dölme ( Bevern ) there is a historic towpath.

In Hamburg - Winterhude is the street towpath, named today a fine address for a towpath on the Alster.

In Brandenburg, the towpath along the canal as Finow bike path is expanded.

In Saarland, the towpath has been converted into a cycle path along the Saar. This leads from the French Sarreguemines on the left side of Saarbrücken in Saarland until after Völklingen.

In Hesse are preserved parts of the towpath between the Rheingau Rüdesheim am Rhein and Walluf, which are used as pedestrian and bicycle path. On Set between Frankfurt and Offenbach am Main Main Arch of the Fechenheimer towpath runs several miles along the right bank of the Main.

Denmark

In Jutland (Denmark) the towpath from Randers to Silkeborg is opened and marked hiking trail. The brochure " Traekstien Randers - Silkeborg " ( The towpath from Randers to Silkeborg ) is available at the Tourist Information.

France

In Bouziès the rock wall on the south bank of the River Lot in a tow-path ( chemin de halage ) been eroded. The banks of the Seine, the Eure, the Dordogne and the Loire River and its major tributary of the Mayenne are lined with such paths.