Rundweg Laacher Berg - Wingertsweg | LENI gelb

After months of fighting, the area around the "Wilde Sau" forest district had become the "Killing Field" of the Western Front. Regiments of three American divisions, the 9th, 28th and 4th, had fought here and suffered heavy losses.

Since the beginning of our era, Western Europe has been cut through by fortified border fortifications, such as the Roman Limes, the medieval castle line or the forts of the 19th century.

8.7 km / Along the Rurfelsen rocks/ Trail hike

Three countries - one river: The Rur is your constant companion as you cycle along the RurUfer cycle path between its source in the High Fens near Botrange (Belgium) and its confluence with the Meuse near Roermond (Netherlands).

The trail leads through an area rich in game with many traces of hunters and the hunted. The north-eastern part of the national park borders our route. For thousands of years, people subsisted as hunters and gatherers. The introduction of livestock farming and agriculture not only changed habits, but also the original landscape. The result was a cultivated landscape dominated by humans, which increasingly limited the habitat of game. We follow the hiking trail sign 09.