Rund um Klausen - Hiking in the Moselle-Eifel

Pilgerherberge "Eberhardsklause", Eberhardstr. 3, 54524 Klausen

The centrally located village shop with the pilgrims' hostel "Eberhardsklause" is a good starting point for the hike (there are also parking facilities in Eberhardstraße below the abbey garden). Now you should decide whether you want to visit the parish and pilgrimage church "Maria Heimsuchung" or the Abtsgarten right at the beginning or only at the end of the tour. It is worth it in any case!The path itself leads you from the parking lot below the abbey garden first on small paths through a meadow area, then over an asphalt road to the district of Krames. Passing the village well and pretty farmhouses, the path continues along the Kramesbach and green meadows. After crossing the stream, turn left. Soon you will pass a construction trailer with a forest playground, which the forestry office has prepared for children and young people. You follow a narrow forest path, then a tarred road, which leads to the right towards the village of Esch. Then you cross a crossroads and turn right again at the next opportunity. The path continues under a road underpass, always along the edge of the forest of the recultivated gravel pits. You reach the district of Pohlbach via a service road, the "Mühlenweg" and the "Poststraße". At the Mühlenbach (Grönbach) turn right into the footpath leading to the Polbach Margarethen Church and the Pohlbach Children's Fountain, then carefully cross the road in the spa area. "Zum Mühlbach" and "Zum Rosenthälchen" are the names of the local roads which you follow and which lead out of the village. First you continue on asphalt farm tracks, then you dive into the forest. The forest path rises slightly. Behind an almost silted up fire pond, you turn right at a crossroads and meet open terrain again at a shelter. Follow the bend in the farm track and then turn left after just under 200 metres. Forest and meadow areas now alternate along the path. After a sharp right-hand bend, you walk towards the district of Pohlbach again and cross the Grönbach once more. An asphalt path, the "Wiesenweg", leads you behind the buildings on the left and to the "Wittlicher Straße" (the main road through the village). There you cross the bridge which leads over the L 47.  Continue straight on for about 500 metres and you will reach the starting point of the hike again.