Small Geopark Tour - 39 km

Small Geopark Tour - 39 km

Echternach - Steinheim - Rosport – Burermillen - Born – Moersdorf – Givenich - Mompach – Herborn – Berbourg – Bech – Lauterbur – Echternach

Departure: Echternach Parking “A Kack”

This tour takes you to geological highlights in the Nature and Geopark Mëllerdall. During the tour you will learn more about the origin of the fantastic landscape.
From Echternach you start towards Wasserbillig and drive along the river Sûre through Steinheim and further on to the Sources Rosport. There you can take a guided tour of the only natural carbonated mineral water spring in Luxembourg (by prior arrangement, only as a group).
You continue to Rosport, straight through the village and continue towards Wasserbillig until you turn left, after one kilometer, to follow the sign "Barrage Sauerpark". After the bridge over the canal, turn left again and then right up the hill to a parking lot with a fantastic view. You are here on the slope of the artificial meander core Hëlt, where you can hike the "Natur- und Landwirtschaftspfad Hoelt". It starts directly at the parking lot and is marked with a lizard. On the way, you can spot living specimens of these prehistoric-looking animals when the weather is warm and sunny. (Walking distance: 4 km, duration: 75 minutes).

Km	Via	Direction
0,0	Echternach	↰	Wasserbillig/Toutes directions/Steinheim
4,5	Steinheim	↑	Rosport
6,4		↰	Sources Rosport
6,5		↰	Rosport
7,5	Rosport	↑	Wasserbillig
8,5		↰	Barrage Sauerpark
8,6		↰	Barrage Sauerpark
8,8		↱	Parking Hëlt
9,1			Parking Hëlt (hike)
9,4		↰	N10
9,6		↱	N10
9,7		↰	Hinkel
11,5		↑	Hinkel
13,0	Burermillen	↱	Parking Burermillen
13,1	Burermillen	↶	N10
13,1	Burermillen	↱	Wasserbillig
15,4	Born	↱	Schoul/Parking Um Salzwaasser/Salzmännchegart
15,5	Born Schoul	↶	N10
15,6	Born	↱	Wasserbillig/Moersdorf
15,8		↱	Parking Info Salzwaasserquell
16,7	Moersdorf	↱	Mompach/Givenich
19,6		↱	Echternach/Mompach
20,7	Mompach	↰	Herborn
23,3		↰	Herborn
23,7	Herborn	↰	Berbourg/Grevenmacher
24,3	Herborn	↱	Berbourg/Junglinster
25,1		↑	Berbourg
26,9	Berbourg	↱	Bech
29,2	View Zeiebierg
29,7		↱	Bech/Echternach
30,3	Bech	↱	Echternach
33,3		↱	Echternach
39,0	Echternach	↰	Rue du Pont
39,2	Parking „A Kack“

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Rosport

Artificial meander core Hëlt

This tour takes you to geological highlights in the Nature and Geopark Mëllerdall. During the tour, you will learn more about the origin of the fantastic landscape.

From Echternach you start towards Wasserbillig and drive along the river Sûre through Steinheim and further on to the Sources Rosport. There you can take a guided tour of the only natural carbonated mineral water spring in Luxembourg (by prior arrangement, only as a group).
You continue to Rosport, straight through the village and continue towards Wasserbillig until you turn left, after one kilometer, to follow the sign “Barrage Sauerpark”. After the bridge over the canal, turn left again and then right up the hill to a parking lot with a fantastic view. You are here on the slope of the artificial meander core Hëlt (3), where you can hike the “Natur- und Landwirtschaftspfad Hoelt”. It starts directly at the parking lot and is marked with a lizard. On the way, you can spot living specimens of these prehistoric-looking animals when the weather is warm and sunny.

Walking distance: 4 km, duration: 75 minutes.

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Sources Rosport
Sources Rosport
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Meander core “Hëlt”
Meander core “Hëlt”
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Born

Salzmännchegaart

Back at the car park, take the road back across the bridge over the Sûre canal. After the bridge, turn left onto the N10 road and follow it to Steekaul Burermillen. An information board indicates that there had been a red sandstone quarry here in the 1950’s. Parking is available at the “Crèche” in Burermillen.

You follow the road along the Sûre to Born, where you can have a look at the Salzmännchegaart behind the modern elementary school. It shows a geological section through the region. Geology can also be experienced on a geological barefoot path. Park at the school and cross the schoolyard to get to the Salzmännchegaart.

Further along the river Sûre, you will find a parking lot just 200 m after the school, on the right side of the road. A board informs
you about the Salzwaasserquell in Born where salt was produced in a graduation mill.

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Salzmännchegaart
Salzmännchegaart
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Salzwaasserquell
Salzwaasserquell
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Bech

Outlier mountians Zeiebierger

Continue to Moersdorf and turn right towards Mompach. On the plateau, you cross the idyllic village of Mompach and continue through Herborn to Bech. Before the entrance to Bech you have a good view of the Zeiebierger, “outlier mountains”, the remains of an old rock formation. After Bech you pass through the forest and go via Lauterbur back to Echternach.