De Wijngracht

De Wijngracht

Martin Buberplein
Kerkrade
With the Archeo Route Limburg you will discover the stories behind Limburg's history and archaeology. The most important spots of this route are marked with a work of art in the form of a spear.

In the Middle Ages, the remarkable wine transports, with their carts full of large wooden barrels, traveled along this route. The wine barrels followed a route built on the Roman Via Belgica, which continued to play an important role centuries after Roman times.

Kerkrade owes its location to this road. In the eleventh century, the city was founded from the older Richterich, along the important east-west connection between Flanders and the Rhineland.

Cracking carts full of trade goods drove all the way from Cologne on the Rhine via Kerkrade and via the toll in Herzogenrath and past Rolduc Abbey to the west; products of Flemish trade and industry went in the opposite direction, in an easterly direction.
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