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Oberwesel City Wall and Towers Walk

Oberwesel City Wall and Towers Walk

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Oberwesel City Wall and Towers Walk

Recommended by 222 hikers out of 240

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Please check local regulations for: UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

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Location: Oberwesel, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Kai 🇺🇦

October 31, 2017

Historic, partially walkable city wall.
There is a separate trail to the wall.
More info:
oberwesel.de/wandern0/stadtmauerrundweg

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Stephan N

October 25, 2020

Parts of the town wall of Oberwesel are accessible.
There is a corresponding flyer from the city of Oberwesel here.
The city fortifications are one of the best-preserved buildings of this type in the Rhineland, with their sixteen towers (from formerly twenty-one) and the wall that is still almost complete. Its construction may have begun soon after 1213 (1220?). Around 1240 the wall around the city center was raised. The fortification was first mentioned in 1257. At that time, King Richard of Cornwall stated in a document that the city was surrounded by a wall.
According to Schwarz, the wall around the southern suburb was built around 1250, shortly after that around the suburb of Niederburg, and around 1350 the wall around Kirchhausen was built. For Dehio, the two suburbs in the north (Niederburg, with the former Cistercian monastery of Allerheiligen) and in the south (Kirchhausen, with the Liebfrauenstift) were only included in the fortification belt around 1400 and in the middle of the 15th century (1444?).
The city wall was damaged during the Wesel War (1390/91). After the end of hostilities, the damage was repaired and the wall was further strengthened.
Source:
regionalhistory.net/index.php?id=896

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Silvia

September 19, 2017

A beautiful path that you should not miss when you're in Oberwesel.

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Oberwesel City Wall and Towers Walk

1. Sieben Jungfrauen Viewpoint – Günderodehaus loop from Urbar

2. View of the Loreley Rock – Sieben Jungfrauen Viewpoint loop from Niederburg

3. Schönburg Castle (Oberwesel) – Oberwesel Town Wall loop from Dellhofen

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