Historical and guided tours

Historical tour - St. Vith before 1945

This tour (about 2.4 km) takes visitors past 14 panels with large-format photos of St. Vith before and after its destruction in World War II.
The detailed map is available from the Tourist Info or available here.

Guided city tour "A journey through the history of St. Vith".

A city guide will guide you through the city streets and tell you interesting facts and anecdotes from the history of St. Vith. 

Meeting point: town hall square - duration: approx. 1.5 hours
SATURDAY: 10:30 a.m. / Registration until 5 p.m. on Friday at the Tourist Info Centre
SUNDAY: 10:30 am / Registration until 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Tourist Info Centre
Price: 8.00 €/person - children up to 12 years free.

Guided tours for private groups, families, companies... Day and time freely selectable by arrangement (on request)

Cost: 65.00 € for groups of up to 20 people - duration approx. 1.5 hours

Guided city tour "In the footsteps of the destroyed city"

Tour of the city with the theme "World War 2 in St. Vith": 

- Bombing on Christmas 1944, 

- the "Million Mountain"

- the great migration 

... and much more information and stories from locals about the war in and around St. Vith.

Guided tours for private groups, families, companies... Day and time freely selectable by arrangement (on request)

Cost: 65.00 € for groups of up to 20 people - duration approx. 1.5 hours

Guided tour: "Special church & chapel"

Visit (in German, Dutch or French) to the pilgrimage church in Neundorf OR a visit to St Bartholomew's Chapel in Wiesenbach.

- 2 spring sanctuaries, 
- “A rare pearl ” (Queen Fabiola, 1989),
- “art historical sensation” (Grenz-Echo 2010),
- “A stolen miraculous statue” (Grenz-Echo, 1975)
- A watch tower
- 1 "Veegder Gate"

• Guided tours for private groups, families, companies... Day and time by arrangement (on request)
  Cost: 65.00 € for groups of up to 20 people - Duration: approx. 1,5 hour
• Several times a year, these tours also take place for individuals/Couples/small families: 8 €/person

Information and reservation: Tourist Info: +32 (0) 80 28 01 30

Guided Tour: “Two Centuries of the Leather Industry in St. Vith” (in German, Dutch or French)

Following in the Footsteps of the Buschmann Family and the Tanneries

In 1752, Hubert Buschmann established the St. Vith tanning tradition, which at its peak comprised several tanneries with over 600 tanning pits. St. Vith leather was transported by horse-drawn cart as far as Leipzig and Frankfurt for trade fairs and enjoyed an excellent reputation.

 · How was leather produced in the past?
 · Pit tanning along the Werrelsbach and Prümerbach streams, from Herrenbrühl to the Buschmann ponds
· Tanning spoons, tanning mills, and tanning warehouses
· Tanning peelers: a lucrative sideline in the St. Vith region
· The former Buschmann House, an Empire-style estate on Mühlenbachstraße
· Rosalie Buschmann married Jean-François Boch, founder of the Boch-Buschmann earthenware factory in Mettlach, now the headquarters of Villeroy & Boch
· The “Berliner Hof,”...

Guided tours for private groups, families, and companies:                                             
Date and time can be freely chosen by arrangement (upon request)
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
€65.00 for groups of up to 15 people     

Guided tours for individuals/couples/small families: 
Several times a year, Saturdays from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Dates available upon request
€8 per person

Information and registration at the Tourist Info: +32 (0) 80 28 01 30

Guided tour & walk "Along the Prussian border route"

A tour with interesting facts about 

- the "Tyrolean Martel"

- Prussian? Dutch? Belgian? Walloon? What next?

- Smuggler stories

... and much more! 

Guided tours for private groups, families, companies.... Day and time freely selectable by arrangement (on request)
Cost: 65.00 € for groups of up to 20 people - Duration: approx. 2.5 hours, including driving to the starting point “Hof Kretels“ with your own car.