Car-free Moscheltal lures hikers, bikers Sunday

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
Courtesy photo Vendors along the car-free route on country road L379 sell a variety of merchandise, including art and craft items Sunday.
Courtesy photo
Vendors along the car-free route on country road L379 sell a variety of merchandise, including art and craft items Sunday.

County road L379 between Obermoschel and Waldgrehweiler will close to motorized traffic from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The union community of Alsenz-Obermoschel will sponsor its second car-free event in the Moscheltal valley. Along the 10 kilometers stretch, L379 will turn into an adventure area for bicyclists, hikers and skaters.

The villages along the route — Obermoschel, Sitters, Schiersfeld, Finkenbach-Gersweiler and Waldrehweiler — will offer an entertaining program, including live music, children’s activities and flea markets. Associations and restaurants will serve food specialties such as roasted chicken, bratwurst, steaks, beef with horseradish, salmon and herring brötchen, flammkuchen and waffles.

Obermoschel, known as the smallest town in the Pfalz, will open the radio museum from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sitters will start the event with with a bikers’ worship service at 10:30 a.m. near the community hall. Children can take part in a gold-nugget search, jump on a bouncy castle and create street paintings.

Schiersfeld will also offer a bouncy castle and a game mobile. In the village of Finkenbach-Gersweiler, a private garden will open to the public on Inselstrasse 10. The owner takes part in the community-wide event called “Open Garden Doors 2013.” Other special gardens with ponds will be open in Hohlweg 10 in Waldgrehweiler and Auf dem Sonnenborn 6 in Obermoschel.

In Waldgrehweiler, there will be live music and a stand where visitors can test their dart throwing skills.

If walkers get tired, they can take a ride in the horse taxi.

Obermoschel is located on federal street B420, north of Lauterecken.