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    On a witch’s broom through the Voreifel region

    Medium
    58,1 km
    3:52 h
    222 m
    224 m
    193 m
    56 m
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    Regional bike tour

    Welcome to the "Witches' Ride", a 60 km bike tour where you will learn about entertaining, scary and instructive facts from the history of witch hunts.

    The tour takes you from Bonn via Alfter, Rheinbach and Swisttal and finally ends back in Bonn. The stops on the tour are closely linked to the theme and take you on a journey back in time. Nowadays, witches and their persecution are often associated with the Middle Ages. But this is a mistake, because the time of the great European witch hunts was essentially between 1600 and 1650. 40 to 60,000 people lost their lives at that time. Witch trials also took place in the Voreifel region between Bonn and Rheinbach at this time. One of the prisons for "witches" can still be seen today in Rheinbach, in the so-called Witches' Tower.

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    On a witch’s broom through the Voreifel region

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    The tour is a former QuoRadis tour and therefore not signposted. However, you can also find the tour on Komoot.

    From the bus station at Bonn's main railway station, drive about 500m along Wesselstraße and along the courtyard directly to Bonn's market square.

    Bonn's market square is within walking distance of Bonn's main railway station.

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    Radregion Rheinland e.V.
    Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
    50126 Bergheim

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    Radregion Rheinland e.V.
    Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
    50126 Bergheim

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