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Smuggler's Path

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Smuggler's Path

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Smuggler's Path

Recommended by 145 hikers out of 150

This Highlight goes through a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parc naturel des Hautes-Fagnes – Eifel

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Location: Eupen, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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2. Brackvenn Boardwalk – Brackvenn Boardwalks loop from Konzen

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3. Brackvenn – Brackvenn Moor Ponds loop from Konzen

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

August 21, 2022

A path that leads through deciduous and spruce forest in the direction of the German/Belgian border and was probably used by smugglers in the past (post-war period).

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

March 8, 2022

Beautiful, but unfortunately short, historical path.

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R.Bungartz

January 24, 2021

Very nice hiking trail, which was often used by smugglers in the post-war years. Due to the high coffee taxation in the British occupation zone and from 1949 in the Federal Republic of Germany, coffee smuggling was lucrative and was carried out by individuals for self-sufficiency or on a large scale. The main smuggling lines were south of Aachen in the foothills of the Eifel, with centers in Aachen-Hitfeld and Mützenich. According to official statistics, between 1945 and 1953 31 smugglers and two customs officers died.
Large-scale coffee smuggling ended in the region after the coffee tax was drastically reduced from DM 10/kg to DM 4/kg on August 24, 1953. Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Kaffeefront

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Distance 629 m

Uphill 10 m

Downhill 20 m

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Location: Eupen, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. View from Steling – Beautiful view over the Fagnes loop from Mützenich

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