Konz:
Ideal holiday place for fitness, active being, spare time and rest

The modern and ambitious town Konz lies with the confluence of the Saar and the Moselle and is the biggest wine-growing municipality in the cultivation area Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. By the central position Konz offers as an ideal starting point for excursions to the border triangle Deutschland-Frankreich-Luxemburg, as well as for bicycle excursions. If it is sour the cycle track along the Obermosel, Mittelmosel, or the Saar, all ways cross in Konz. Historically Konz can look back at a long past.

A stone street bridge reinforces with two towers, spanned here at Roman times the Saar. The place, in important Heeresstrasse of Trier to Metz situated, was called at the past„ Contionacum“. Below the today's church hill there was the summer residence of Roman emperor Valentinian I. (364-375). In a visit famous Roman poet Ausonius wrote a part his„ Mosella“ at this point down. In the area of the emperor's villa the medieval settlement core with church, parochial court and the castle house of the lords of the manor developed.

The Roman bridge against it refers to the position significant strategically even then of Konz which culminated in the early modern times in the battle in the Konzer bridge 1675, but also in the second world war was accented by the strong connection of Konz within the scope of the Siegfried Line construction. The unique people's customer's museum and open-air museum Roscheider court presents the earlier rural everyday culture of the whole region.

The museum offers beside the thematic change exhibits as for example„ from the grain to the bread“ or„ Wine-growing on the Moselle, the Saar and Ruwer“, a Gutsschänke, half-timbered chapel, wine museum, rose garden and a Hunsrück hamlet with 14 half-timbered houses. In the building groups around the Roscheider court houses and farms are rebuilt faithfully and equipped according to her earlier use möbiliert and with household effects. Proudly the Konzer are also on cloister Karthaus whose splendid baroque facade from reddish sandstone with the honorary court reminds of a castle. Today the building serves as a center for cultural arrangements. The town Konz is a true paradise for the active vacation.

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