Eifelsteig Stage 1

The Eifelsteig crosses the Eifel for 313 km from Aachen-Kornelimünster to Trier, under the motto "where rock and water meet". Stage 1 of 15 runs from Aachen-Kornelimünster to Roetgen. [Route details] Start: Aachen-Kornelimünster · End: Roetgen Via: Hahn · Friesenrath 12.74 km · 229 m to 455 m · climb 351 m [Good to know] - Assembled from the OpenStreetMap relation for the Eifelsteig and cut at the official stage ends. Eifel Tourismus gives the whole trail as 313 km; the assembled line comes to 315.5 km. - The stage ends are the official ones, found on the line by their town centres; where a centre sits a few hundred metres off the trail the cut lands early or late. This stage reads 12.74 km against the official 14.1 km, and the neighbouring stage takes up the difference. - Elevation is sampled from a terrain model at 300 m spacing, not recorded on the ground. On ground this gentle a denser sample inflates the climb — the whole trail reads 7,962 m here against the operator's 7,746 m, but 17,464 m if every track point is used.