Lenningen and Canach, the Moselle away from the river

Lenningen is the Moselle that never makes the river postcards. The commune, home to 2,114 people on 1 January 2026, brings together two villages, Lenningen and Canach, in the valley of the Lenningerbaach, a stream running behind the riverside slopes. Vines share the land with meadows, hedges, orchards and woodland here, which gives it a more rural feel than the rest of the Luxembourg Moselle valley.

From Celts to Romans

The commune is proud of its long past. Its own website says the site was lived on from the Stone Age, passed from the Celts to the Romans, who turned it into a military base to hold back raids on both sides of the Moselle and the Rhine, and was linked to Trier by a Roman road. Canach, it adds, is just as old. If Roman remains are your thing, the real site is just south at Dalheim, with its open-air theatre.

Terraces and dry stone walls

What I like most about Canach is its terraced vineyard. The Kanecher Wéngertsbierg nature trail, 2.89 km according to visitluxembourg, crosses an organic vineyard and explains how the terraces that were once typical of the area were laid out, many of them still intact here. The government portal also mentions a 5 km tour under the same name, ending with a tasting, which is the figure quoted in the Moselle wine route guide. They’re two different outings, so don’t mix them up.

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A long loop for strong legs

The Canach circular walk leaves from the church and runs 12.84 km in about three hours twenty-five minutes, rated difficult. It climbs the Wéngertsbierg, the Canecherbierg, the Kalebierg and the Haard, follows the Lenningerbaach for a stretch to Lenningen and returns through the Branebësch, a wood of oak, hornbeam and beech. Along the way you pass south-facing slopes with old terraces and dry stone walls, and the listing recommends a look inside Lenningen church, built in the style of a Romanesque basilica.

Golf at Canach

The regional office bills Lenningen as the commune with the region’s only golf course. That’s the Kikuoka Country Club at Scheierhaff, Canach, an 18-hole, par-72 course measuring 6,419 metres, and I cover it with the other courses in golf in Luxembourg.

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How I’d fit it in

STATEC found just a single hotel here in 2025, so my base would be Remich, with the bus up, which costs nothing within Luxembourg. The stop for the vineyard trail is Canach, op der Bréck, and for the long loop Canach, Post. If you’ve brought a bike, the mountain bike trail from Greiveldange runs through Lenningen before plunging into the woods and dropping down to Stadtbredimus, which is the fullest way to see this inland Moselle in a single morning. Allow a full morning either way.

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