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Mauspfad - Mittelalterlicher Hohlweg

Mauspfad - Mittelalterlicher Hohlweg

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    The mouse path - I already like the name

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    • May 12, 2021

  • "... The Mauspfad, as a former trade route, is now one of the" old streets ".
    The mouse path should not be imagined as a road in today's sense, rather it was a path that was kept free through repeated walking and in part through maintenance measures, such as cutting the undergrowth. Tolls were levied at customs houses for such maintenance measures. Despite its narrow width, the path presumably played a major role in the Early Iron Age development of the heather terrace on the right bank of the Rhine; it may even have been the main route through which southern culture penetrated north.
    The name of the path probably has nothing to do with mice, even if in the Middle Ages goods to evade taxes, customs and tolls around Cologne are said to have been smuggled "as if by mice". The assumption that Maus could be derived from the word Maut = road toll has more supporters.
    In the Unterbach / Erkrath area, several devices were found near the mouse path, for example a Bronze Age rag ax and the Hallstatt bronze cast of a spout ax.
    In the urban area of Düsseldorf, the course continued over the Gerresheimer Heights near Düsseldorf-Gerresheim. In Gerresheim, both Neolithic axes and graves from the Hallstatt and Roman Empire were discovered near the mouse path.
    The mouse path led further north via Ratingen, Lintorf and Angermund. ... "
    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauspfad

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    • December 16, 2021

  • Shortly before six o'clock the view from the height of the Kettelbecksweg on Ratingen at night. In the darkness we didn't notice anything of the planned ravine, the historical mouse pad.

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    • January 13, 2022

  • Beautiful path with a historically interesting past

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    • July 6, 2022

  • You don't have to add much because this little highlight has already been optimally described. But you really have the feeling that this path has existed for a very long time.

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    • April 11, 2023

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