The 9.5 km long hiking route, starting and finishing in Monschau-Kalterherberg, first takes you out of the town in an easterly direction. After crossing the former Vennbahn bridge, a romantic path winds along the edge of the forest to Ruitshof. This is the smallest inhabited exclave in Germany, as the hamlet can only be reached via Belgian territory.

The entire section of the trail through the meadow landscape of the hamlet offers a magnificent panorama to the west. The horizon is dominated by the Eifeldom, the Kalterherberg parish church with its striking twin towers. The varied forest passage that follows ends at the mighty rock of Richelsley with the Cross in the Fens, erected in 1890. It gained international fame through Clara Viebig's novel of the same name and commemorates Stephan Horrichem, prior of the Reichenstein monastery from 1639 to 1686. He is still highly honored today as the "Apostle of the Fens" for his tireless pastoral care and active help for the suffering population. Richelsley is a special place for geologists. The pebble-shaped stones of the conglomerates were polished by the surf of the Devonian Sea around 400 million years ago.

Via a mountain path that leads downhill through a spruce forest with countless blueberry bushes, and after crossing the former Vennbahn railway line again, you reach Reichenstein with its idyllic pond. The former Premonstratensian monastery was built around 1132, dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization and converted into an estate. From then on, the new owners used the church first as a cloth factory and later as a hay barn until it was renovated in 1972. The buildings have been used as a monastery again since September 2008.

You reach the Rur through the Ermesbach valley, which is dominated by one of the most impressive bridges of the former Vennbahn. You pass mighty rock formations on the way to the Norbertus Chapel, which was consecrated in 1926 and nestles against the slope in the immediate vicinity of the Rur bridge. Flowers and candles show that this place of worship is the destination of many people who call on St. Jude Thaddeus for help in difficult situations. The rose alley begins on the other side of the road. It first leads past the renaturalized valley floor before plunging into a sparse hillside forest. After around 650 meters, the trail comes full circle near the former Vennbahn bridge and leads back to the starting point at the "Eifeldom".