Schleich is a wine-growing village on a terrace directly on the Moselle. Three points of reference can help you get to know the village: wine, communal bread baking and preserved buildings. Together, they span everything from an annual festival to hands-on participation in traditional crafts and architectural history. You can decide in advance whether you would like to discover Schleich primarily through a festival, an opportunity to take part or its historic buildings.
Wine and Local Traditions
Schleich’s traditional street wine festival brings together Moselle dishes and local wine with demonstrations of traditional crafts. It thus combines several local themes at a recurring festival. Exact dates and the programme may vary, so check the festival details in advance if you want to plan your stay around it. This lets you include the event in your plans without assuming a particular weekend or an unchanging programme.
Bakehouse and Preserved Building Heritage
Guests can still bake bread in the old bakehouse. Participation may depend on local arrangements, so check in advance whether it is possible. Unlike the street wine festival, the focus here is on baking bread together, while the festival combines wine, food and craft demonstrations. These two themes offer different ways to experience local life in Schleich.
Local sights also include a 9th-century church, a restored forge beside the Weierbach and a restored farmstead that illustrates the Moselle region’s building tradition. Each building highlights a different aspect: the church represents historic religious architecture, the forge local crafts and the farmstead the building style of the Moselle region. Together, they complement the living craft traditions of the festival and bakehouse with a glimpse of preserved buildings.
Regional Perspectives in Trier-Saarburg
The wider Trier-Saarburg travel destination offers additional themes to consider when planning your trip. Trier-Saarburg district already has 492 kilometres of cycle paths. There is also a dense network of cycling and hiking trails along the Viezstraße. Fruit growers, fruit brandy distillers, farmers, hoteliers and restaurateurs there share information, regional recipes and experiences centred on Viez. This regional context complements Schleich’s local wine and craft themes with cycling and hiking trails and the culture surrounding Viez.
One specific circular route in the wider Trier-Saarburg travel destination is the Tälchen Tour. It is rated as moderately difficult, is 37.28 kilometres long and is listed as taking about 2 hours and 45 minutes; both the start and finish are in Konz. The route leads to the Wiltinger Saarbogen nature reserve. It also recommends a detour to the waterfall in Saarburg’s old town. This gives you both an idea of the scale of the regional cycle path network and details of a specific circular route, including its distance and approximate duration.
Roman history is another distinct regional theme. In Tawern, the Roman road settlement of Tabernae is considered the origin of the village. It was established shortly before the turn of the millennium on a Roman main road running from the Moselle via Metz to Rome. A model of the road settlement at a scale of 1:75 is on display in a pavilion; a large reconstructed temple complex in Tawern also stands in the forest. The free ARGO app lets you view the complex on site at its original size and as a 360-degree augmented reality display. The model, reconstructed complex and digital display offer different ways to explore the subject: from a scaled overview to a life-size representation.
Discover more destinations: Tawern, Wawern, Föhren, Kanzem, Langsur, Butzweiler, Kordel, Detzem
For the wider travel overview: Trier-Saarburg.
