Wine discovery tour

The newly designed tour with 28 themed boards offers magnificent views of the vineyards, the Ahr valley, the Rhine valley and the Siebengebirge mountains along a panoramic route. Several rest areas along the way invite you to linger and enjoy the view. Striking places along the way tell of history and culture - such as the imposing concrete pillars as relics of a never-completed railroad project, the flood chapel as a silent reminder of the Ahr flood and the Roemervilla Museum as a historical testimony to Roman times.

With the "Lauschtour", which will add another experience to the wine discovery tour from mid-2026, you can learn more about the big and small features along the way. At selected points, there will be exciting insider knowledge about wine, history and nature - personally commented on by connoisseurs of the Ahr Valley.

Tour route from the starting point at Ahrweiler Markt station:
From the large overview board of the "Wine Explorer Tour", we walk up the road and pass the pillars of a planned railroad line (now a high ropes course). The concrete pillars are part of a viaduct on the never-completed railroad line from Liblar (near Cologne) to Trier. The path continues opposite (or sharp left from below), following the red wine hiking trail that soon joins from the right - again through vineyards.

We pass the wooden cross commemorating World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne and the slight bend to the left opens up a sweeping view: Below us the Ahr valley with Ahrweiler, the northern town wall and the Ahrweiler forest, to the left Bad Neuenahr, the volcanic cone of the Landskrone and behind it the Rhine valley with the Siebengebirge.

We stay on the red wine hiking trail, which runs past gabions - the retaining walls made of natural stones in wire grids - and after 800 m follow the sign "Hotel Hohenzollern" uphill at a small parking lot. At the next right-hand bend, turn left up the narrow path, then before the hotel parking lot take the path branching off to the left, which first climbs slightly and after 1.2 km descends again at the left-hand bend through the vineyards above Walporzheim. We reach the flood chapel built after the Ahr flood in 2021. Opposite you can see the "Katzley" viewing pavilion at the top.
The route now continues downhill along the vineyards and then parallel to the main road to the "Römervilla". We cross the road "Am Silberberg" and walk above the main road back to the starting point.