Traumschleife Vaubansteig

Experience the Saargau in a different way. The hiking trail does not run over the heights of the Gau between Saarland and Lorraine, but mostly along narrow forest paths through shady acacia forests. The "Three Capuchins", a well-known Gallo-Roman rock relief carved in sandstone, can be found in the deep forest. The view from the Teufelsburg into the Saar valley is unique.

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban - born in 1633, the marquis became world-famous as the legendary fortress builder of the Sun King Louis XIV and is now rightly regarded as the most important military architect of the Baroque era. One of his masterpieces: the ingenious Saarlouis flood fortress in the Saar floodplain.
Its history begins on the Saarlouis Gau, on whose steep slopes the mighty stone blocks for the later fortified town were quarried between Teufelsburg and Humburg from 1680 onwards.
Over the centuries, the former quarries have become small natural jewels - forgotten, overgrown, enchanted.
The Saarlouis Vauban Trail now makes them accessible again, combining the seemingly endless expanse of the Franco-German Gaul landscape high above the Saar valley with an attractive route and thus directing the hiker's gaze to an interesting period of history.

The trail has been awarded 70 experience points by the German Hiking Institute.