Castle Directory
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Liebenstein Castle
Liebenstein Castle sits at roughly 237 metres above the Middle Rhine — the highest castle in the inscribed UNESCO landscape, perched on the upper ridge directly above its more famous sibling, Burg Sterrenberg. For most...
Sterrenberg Castle
Sterrenberg Castle, the elder of the ‘hostile brothers’ above Kamp-Bornhofen on the Middle Rhine, first documented in 1189/90. A Hohenstaufen Reichsburg whose Streitmauer was raised by the Archbishop of Trier in the 1320s, not by...
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
From any vantage point on Koblenz’s left bank, the same shape commands the view: a long polygonal wall along a high cliff above the Rhine, running west toward the Deutsches Eck where the Mosel joins...
Lahneck Castle
At the mouth of the Lahn, where the slower river slides into the Rhine on the right bank opposite Koblenz, a wedge of Diabas rises 164 meters above the water. On its tip stands a...
Katz Castle
Katz Castle is the larger half of the most famous joke on the Rhine. High on a rock spur above St. Goarshausen, on the right bank of the Middle Rhine and almost directly opposite Rheinfels,...
Maus Castle
Maus Castle was named by the people who built the castle next door to destroy it. High on a rock spur above the village of Wellmich, on the right bank of the Middle Rhine, it...
Gutenfels Castle
High on a vine-terraced shoulder of rock above the little Rhine town of Kaub stands a castle that makes no sense by itself. Gutenfels Castle was never a frontier outpost or a robber-baron’s lair; it...
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle is the one castle on the Upper Middle Rhine that never had to surrender, because it was never built to be lived in. It stands on the rock island of Falkenau in the...
Wernigerode Castle
Stand in Wernigerode’s half-timbered market square and look south, and the castle appears not as a building but as a deliberate silhouette: a ridge-line of towers, gables, oriels, and stone, engineered so that every forty-five...
Eltville Castle
An electoral residence of the Archbishops of Mainz for 150 years — and the place where Johannes Gutenberg received the only public honor of his lifetime, two years before the Bechtermünze press made Eltville the...
Moritzburg Castle
On a granite knoll in the Friedewald, Schloss Moritzburg is the country pendant of the Dresden Zwinger — drafted by Pöppelmann, finished by Longuelune, and the most intact Saxon Baroque interior surviving today.
Burghausen Castle
The Salzach river curves north out of the Alps and slows. On its western bank a narrow ridge of tuff rises sixty meters above the water, runs more than a kilometer downstream, and ends only...