We will be staying at an inn in Boppard mid September 2019. I see there are wine festivals in the middle Rhine and Mosel then but cannot seem to get specific locations and dates. Can someone help with details and suggestions, including some web links? We will have no car, using the day cruise boats and trains instead.
Many thanks
Boppard's wine fests (scroll down) take place on successive weekends near the end of September.
In 2019 they take place September 27-30 and October 4-6. Saturday is the biggest day and the night for fireworks - the order of events stay fairly consistent from year to year. Here's an online flyer in German with the 2016 schedule:
https://www.boppard-tourismus.de/files/weinfestboppard16_flyer.pdf
Upstream on the same river bank is the Oberwesel Weinmarkt (also a fest) held "...annually on the 2nd and 3rd weekends in September.
2019: 13th -16th and 20th - 21th of September"
https://www.oberwesel.de/no_cache/en/highlights/weinmarkt/
Mosel wine fests (scroll down to September) : https://www.mosel-weinfeste.de/mosel_weinfeste.htm
Transport is no problem here. See train line maps below for Rhine rail lines and train stops on both river banks.
https://www.mittelrheinbahn.de/assets/images/6/MRB_Karte_Streckennetz_2018-66058e06.svg
http://www.vias-online.de/data/9_netzplan_rhg.jpg
The Mosel railway line follows the river closely most of the way to Bullay. See map (not all stops shown) : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moselbahn#/media/File:Moselbahn.jpg
From there to Trier, the railway takes an easier land route away from the river. Getting to Traben-Trarbach is done via an offshoot train line from Bullay. River towns without rail stations (like Bernkastel) are accessible by bus connection from Traben-Trarbach, Bullay, Wittlich, or other rail stations. The German Railways itinerary page provides these connections and of course all the train schedules:
https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de//bin/query.exe/en
Find the Mosel line and its stops (and the Rhine as well) on this larger map of the regional train lines:
http://www.vrminfo.de/fileadmin/data/pdf/2017/RLP-Ticket_streckennetz.pdf
Mosel cruises to non-rail towns are possible here too:
http://www.moselpersonenschifffahrt.de/downloads/Prospekt.pdf
above cochem ( a gem of a town) we attended a wine festival in klotten - a small community a little north of cochem, huge white tent, the town band played for abouit 5 hours, very friendly natives, it was a highlight of our trip. nicholas
