Bech-Kleinmacher, a winegrowers' village turned museum

Bech-Kleinmacher is a winegrowers’ village squeezed between the wine road and the bank of the Moselle, part of the commune of [Schengen] along with eight others(/en/luxembourg/schengen/). First, don’t confuse it with Bech, a commune in the Mullerthal at the other end of the country. Second, this is where you’ll find the museum that best explains how people lived in this valley.

The A Possen museum

The reason to stop is the A Possen museum, a group of winegrowers’ houses whose oldest part dates from 1617. Its rooms rebuild how local winegrowers cooked, slept and worked two hundred years ago, from the soot-darkened hearth to the old trades. It’s shut on Mondays, welcomes visitors from ten in the morning until six on other days, and charges adults €5, with children free. With a LuxembourgPass you pay nothing.

The tourist board and the wine trail

At 52 Route du Vin is the head office of the Moselle regional tourist board, which publishes the walks, tastings and festival calendar for the whole valley. The village also has its own wine trail explaining work in the vineyard, and the tourist board points out archaeological remains along the old Roman road. Some of the vineyards of the co-operative cellar in Wellenstein lie here as well.

The same office runs Wine Taste Enjoy, the Whitsun weekend when wineries and distilleries across the valley throw their doors open. Taking part is free and free shuttle buses link the wine villages, which makes it the best weekend of the year to explore this bank without a car. Each year’s dates are published by the tourist board itself.

In the village, the museum isn’t a single house. The Possenhaus was later joined by the Muedelshaus, another old winegrowers’ home, and between them they hold what the tourist board calls a large collection of toys and glasses.

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The crémant walk

The crémant trail runs through Bech-Kleinmacher, an easy 4.8 km route with panels about Luxembourg’s sparkling wine that links it with Wellenstein and Schwebsingen. The best time, to my mind, is the end of the day, when low sunshine turns the vines golden.

My half day on this stretch

This is how I’d split it. Start with the museum, which opens at 10:00. Then follow the crémant walk to Schwebsingen to see the boats in the marina, and come back through Wellenstein, with its arcaded square and co-op cellar, if it’s a weekday. It all fits into four or five unhurried hours.

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Getting there and where to stay

No trains reach the village. Buses cost nothing within the country, or you can pedal upriver from Remich. For a bed, Remich has nearly all of the hotels at this end of the valley.

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