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Smuggler's Trail in Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park

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Smuggler's Trail in Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park

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Location: Simmerath, Städteregion Aachen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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3. View of Rursee – Lakeside Trails by the Rursee loop from Schmidt

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Gerda

July 2, 2021

“The way takes its name from the post-war period, when coffee smuggling from Belgium was one of the Schmidter's most important sources of income. Schmidt was destroyed to over 90% at the end of World War II, including the parish church of St. Hubertus. With the profit from the smuggling of coffee across the nearby border, the Schmidter got their families through and rebuilt their destroyed houses. Of course, this did not go unnoticed by the then pastor Josef Beyer. The reconstruction of the church went a little less quickly at first. He said in a sermon: “I know that you get a headache from a lot of money. For me it's the other way around, because I don't know where to get the money from to rebuild the church. ”From now on, the smugglers sacrificed part of their profits from the coffee business to rebuild the church. It is therefore popularly known as St. Mocha ”Auch

marked as path no 60

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Elfi

December 16, 2024

The “smugglers’ path” around Schmidt in the Hürtgen Forest above the Rureifel is around 10.5 kilometers long. The route commemorates more than 30 people who died between 1945 and 1953 during the “Aachen Coffee Front.”

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October 7, 2022

A steep climb, but fun

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Location: Simmerath, Städteregion Aachen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Smuggler's Trail in Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park

1. Rursee and Rurberg – View of Rursee loop from Hasenfeld

2. View of Rursee – Rursee and Rurberg loop from Rurberg

3. View of Rursee – Lakeside Trails by the Rursee loop from Schmidt

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