Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Must-Sees

This collection features the architectural and natural highlights of the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, centered on the UNESCO-listed Upper Middle Rhine Valley. The selection includes the Marksburg, the only hilltop castle on the Rhine to escape destruction, and the unique island-based Pfalzgrafenstein toll castle. Visitors can explore the 132-meter Lorelei rock, the Prussian Rhine Romanticism of Stolzenfels Castle, and the historic Royal Chair in Rhens, where German electors met to choose their kings.

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Stolzenfels Castle

Stolzenfels Castle is a former medieval fortress castle turned into a palace, near Koblenz on the left bank of the Rhine, in the state of…

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Marksburg

The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Upper Middle Rhine Valley

The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the…

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Pfalzgrafenstein Castle

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle is a toll castle on the Falkenau island, otherwise known as Pfalz Island in the River Rhine near Kaub, Germany.

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Lorelei

The Lorelei is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany,…

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Lahneck Castle

Lahneck Castle is a medieval fortress located in the city of Lahnstein in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Koblenz.

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UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

A 65-kilometer section of the Rhine Valley recognized for its unique combination of geological features, historic vineyard terraces, and over 40 hilltop castles and fortresses dating back to the Middle Ages.

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Schönburg

The Schönburg is a castle above the medieval town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, …

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Katz Castle

Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Rheinfels Castle

Rheinfels Castle is a castle ruin located above the left bank of the Rhine in Sankt Goar, Germany.

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Burg Balduinstein

The 14th-century ruins of a hilltop castle built by Archbishop Balduin of Trier in 1319 to secure his territorial claims in the Lahn valley.

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Royal Chair

A reconstructed 14th-century octagonal stone monument marking the historic meeting place where the Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire deliberated on the selection of German kings.

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Stein'sches Schloss

The ancestral seat of the Prussian reformer Baron vom Stein, this Renaissance and Baroque-style town palace in Nassau features a late Gothic tower and historic 19th-century interiors.