Castles in Rhine Gorge / Mosel River
Let's discover a medi-eval castle in the Rhine Gorge or at the Mosel River. In the romantic Rhine Gorge we have the highest density of castles in the world. Two of them were never destoyed or conquered. The Mosel river offers also a handful of wonderful medi-eval castles. Visit a castle as a single event or have couple of castles trip.
The Rhine and the Mosel river are so closed that a combination is possible.
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Photo by: Harald Mebus
Rheinfels
Rheinfels Castle was built in St. Goar in the year 1245 by Diether V. It was the biggest castle on the Rhine River and is a ruin now. After the destruction by the French stones were taken to build the huge Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz on the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Mosel. In St. Goar you can find the biggest hanging outside cuckoo clock of the world.
Marksburg
The Marksburg castle in Brubac was first mentioned in a document in 1231. It had several different owners and now it is in the hand of the "German Castle Association". The headquarter of that organisation is in the castle. Marksburg is the only hilltop castle which was never destroyed or conquered in the complete upper middle Rhine valley called the Rhine Gorge.
Stolzenfels
Built as a castle in medi-eval time Schloss Stolzenfels became, after rebuilding in 1842 by the well known architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the summer residence of the prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. It is a jewel in the Rhine Gorge and is located in Koblenz - Stolzenfels.