メッケンハイムでの周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

A few meters from the bench you can see the skeleton of a conifer tree. It towers majestically into the sky. For me it is a warning of climate change and a reminder of the summer of 2018.

Is it a highlight? That depends on whether you need a place to rest. This bench seems to be new, solid, clean and set up at a fork in the road.

Station No. 36 Meckenheim-Lüftelberg, St. Peter The gravestone of St. Lüfthildis made of aqueduct marble "The Catholic parish church of St. Peter was built in the 11th/12th century as a single-nave chapel, which was expanded and remodeled in the first half of the 13th century. The grave of St. Lüfthildis is venerated here, who, according to legend, lived around 800 and to whom the place owes its name. The grave of St. Lüfthildis was formerly covered with the beautiful sintered limestone slab from the Roman Eifel aqueduct, which can be seen today in the side chapel. The beauty of the sintered limestone building material is particularly evident in this slab, and it explains why we respectfully call the material "aqueduct marble" today. The slab formerly covered the saint's grave in the nave of St. Peter. Later, it was broken through several times and stored on the organ loft. After a thorough restoration in the workshop of the LVR State Museum in Bonn, it was given its old beauty and can now be admired as a special gem on the Roman canal hiking trail. As the plate is hung on the wall of the chapel in the same way as it was taken out of the water pipe, its origin can be clearly identified: The layers of calcareous sinter clearly show how the water level rose steadily due to the sintering of the canal channel and reached new zones on the wall. Layer by layer, the Roman canal can be proven to have grown over." https://www.roemerkanal.de/bauwerk

On the Roman Canal hiking trail towards Cologne we are just before the Meckenheim district of Lüftelberg. Here you will find Lüftelberg Castle, which received its castle-like appearance in the 18th century. 👌

"... The two-track Meckenheim Industrial Park stop was put into operation in September 1996 at kilometer 15.0 after 16 years of planning and one year of construction in order to better access Meckenheim's Kottenforst Industrial Park. It had to be renovated in 2010 and 2011 for eight million euros. The two outside platforms of the stop are barrier-free. Parallel to the stop, to the north, runs the rail connection to the companies located along the railway line in the industrial park. Since the switch for the connecting track is between the stop and the road bridge to the southwest, these tracks belong to the Meckenheim Industrial Park siding. In 1962, a loop with two stops was planned for a rail connection from Merl and Meckenheim-Neue Mitte. It was supposed to branch off north of the current Industrial Park stop at Steinbüchel and along Gudenauer Allee near the Old Cemetery to Meckenheim station. Despite fundamental agreement with the German Federal Railway, this section of the line was never built..." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voreifelbahn#Haltepunkt_Meckenheim_Industriepark

Quiet road through fields

Beer garden Kottenforst train station

For example, you walk through the village of Lüftelberg, which is part of the town of Meckenheim, on the fifth stage of the Roman Canal hiking trail, which leads from Rheinbach to Bornheim-Brenig. It is a small village, but there are a few sights to see on either side of the trail, for example the pretty half-timbered houses on Petrusstrasse.