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RHINE RIVER VALLEY SIGHTSEEING-TOUR |
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Rhine River Valley and the Object of Interest |
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Our Rhine River Sightseeing Tour start in Bingen we go left side to the place near Loreleyrock we cross the Rhine River with an Ferryboat and than we go right side to Wiesbaden via Rüdesheim. |
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Mäuseturm The small island in front of Bingen had a small fortress on it in the days of the Romans, but which then disappeared. Hatto II, archbishop of Mainz since 968, and thus Lord of Bingen, made the tower on the island famous throughout the world. The population suffered under Hatto's rule. The various versions of the saga all agree that the bishop was imprisoned in he tower from 969 to 970, where he was attacked by thousands of mice and died. In the 14th century, the tower served as the watchtower for the customs collection castle, Ehrenfels. After that the tower was employed until 1975 as a signal tower to safeguard the passage through the then so dangerous Binger Loch. The cliffs remaining from the huge quartz barrier, which used to link both sides of the river, made the shipping channel extremely narrow for centuries. Only experienced pilots could guide ships through the small, shallow channel. It was not until 1974 that most of this obstacle was removed, making shipping the Rhine River much safer. |
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Rheinstein Castle The castle construction originates in the 9th century. It was originally built as toll tower. One of the historical highlights was 1282, when King Rudolf von Habsburg held court against the perfidious robber knights from the Middle Rhine. After the glory period between the 13th and 16th centuries, Castle Rheinstein became a ruin. In 1823, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Prussia became the owner, and he restored the ruins. Three architects: J.C. Lassinel, Friedrich Schriever, and Wilhelm Kuhn were hired to reconstruct the castle according to the "Romantic Rhine" concept of the 19th century. The family Hollenzollern kept the castle through the inheritance until 1975. |
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Reichenstein Castle The beginnings of Burg Reichenstein date back to the 8th century, when people on the Rhine began to built fortified dwelling-places. The first documentary mention of Reichenstein, in the year 1213, names the arch-abbey of Kornelimünster-Aachen as possessor of the castle. The castellans instituted by the arch-abbey gradually came into opposition to the Rhenish League of Towns, which destroyed the castle in 1253.
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Sooneck Castle The initial construction dates back to the year 1000 and the time of bishop Willegis of Mainz. It had, however, fallen into ruins by 1689. Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia acquired it in 1834 and had it rebuilt in pseudo-Gothic style, as with the castles of Rheinstein and Stolzenfels. It is impressively situated, perched high over the "Soonecker Grund". |
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Fürstenberg Castle The castle, above the town Rheindiebach, served as a toll-house for the Palatine Electorate In 1689, Furstenberg met with the same fate as many Rheinland castles and was soon merely ruins. Only remnants of the huge former ramparts and palace remain. Stretching majestically upwards, the 82-ft.-high tower seems, alone, to have been built for eternity |
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Pfalzgrafenstein Castle A visit to the " Pfalzgrafenstein" near Kaub, built in the fourteenth and enlarged during the seventeenth century , where Blücher crossed the Rhine in 1814, is well worth a visit. Here you can cast a glance over the narrow borders of Rheingau outwards towards the Middle Rhine, which in the section up to Coblenz and confluence of Rhine and Moselle at " Am Deutschen Eck", in also well known for its quality wines. In Kaub alone, we find the "Backofen" and the "Burg Gutenfels". |
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Rheinfels Castle This Castle was built above St Goar in 1245 by Count Dieter von Katzenelbogen. Thanks to the Landgraves of Hesse, it underwent conversion in the 16th century into an impressive Renaissance mansion, and again in the 17th and 18th centuries into the most formidable fortress on the Rhine against which all enemy attacks failed. Not until 1794 was Rheinfels captured by the French troops and blown up. But even in its destruction, so harshly alluded to by Karl Simrock, the huge mass of ruins covering the top of the hill is still one of the most noteworthy sites along the Rhine |
| Near Loreleyrock we cross the Rhine River with an Ferryboat from left to
right side. |
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Castle Maus Construction
on the castle began in 1353 and lasted more than 30 years. The
Counts of Katzenelnbogen are said to have scornfully referred to
this castle of the Trier Electors, slowly taking shape above the
town of Wellmich, as the "mouse", which was soon to be
devoured by the "cat" of Katzenelnbogen. Burg Maus is
architecturally one of the finest fortified buildings along the
rhein. Between 1900 and 1906 the castle was carefully restored with
laudable attention to historical detail. |
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Castle Cat The
castle is set like a crown on the hillside overlooking St
Goarshausen. It was built by Count Johann of Katzenelbogem at the
end of the 14th century. Destroyed only in 1804 and restored a
century later, Burg Katz today houses a Natural Science Grammer and
Boarding School. The path by which the castle is reached leads under
the three-sroreyed main hall into the courtyard. The view,
especially to the Loreley southward, is held to be one of the
Rhein's best known. |
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Loreley Rock Only a few hundred metres downstream opposite the Loreley Rock and dominated by the monumental outlines of the fortress of Rheinfels above, lies this jewel of a town, St Goar, couched in an incomparably beautiful and romantic niche of trees and water. The town's name derives from Goar, the saint who came to the Lohbach estuary in the middle of the 6th century, erected a hermitage, and brought Christian teaching to the people of the central Rhine area. |
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Gutenfels Castle The romantic and historic past become reality when you visit us. The wonderful view over the most beautiful part of the Rhine Valley, with the famous and unique stronghold, the castle on the island in the middle of the Rhine, Pfalzgrafenstein; the brisk and plentiful boat traffic on the Rhine – all this is a delight to the beholder! The historical rooms in our well cared for hotel, invite you to just sit back and enjoy your surroundings, or are ideal for weddings, celebrations and conferences. It is an old custom on Castle Gutenfels that for anyone who comes in peace, the doors will be opened wide in welcome. Castle Gutenfels above Kaub on Rhine, is one of the most beautiful castles in Germany. You only become aware of the greatness of this castle, its beauty and its secrets, when you are prepared to open your heart and accept the magic and romantic of this castle, which is over one thousand years old. |
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Lorch Lorch Village has 32 narrow alley from Middle Ages. |
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Assmannshausen Assmannshausen Village is at the foot of the Niederwald monument it is an old red wine area |
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Niederwald Monument The dramatic monument, nearly 38 meters high, built from 1877-1883 according to plans by Johann Schilling of Dresden, is no longer in vogue. It symbolizes the reestablishment of the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. The main figure is Germania, holding the imperial crown in her raised right hand and the imperial sword in her left hand. The heights of the Niederwald can be reached via cable car and chairlift from Ruedesheim and Assmannshausen, respectively. The fantastic view from the monument extends well into the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. |
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Ehrenfels Castle Above the infamous Binger Loch ("Bingen Hole," dangerous shallows in the Rhine), situated in the vineyards between Ruedesheim and Assmannshausen, built from 1208-19 by the brothers Wernherr and Philipp von Bolanden. Together with the Mouseturm ("Mouse Tower"), an outpost located opposite, in the middle of the river, it served as both a toll station and a shelter. The cathedral of Mainz became the proprietor of the fortress in 1370. In 1688, Ehrenfels fortress was destroyed by the French during the Palatinate war of succession. Today, it is considered to be one of the most beautiful and picturesque castle ruins on the
Rhine. |
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Rüdesheim Drosselgasse This narrow alleyway is 144 meters long and offers non-stop live music, dancing, and entertainment from late morning until well after midnight. You will meet people from all continents, enjoying wine and music in the wine bars and gardens of the most famous ally in the world. |
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St Hildegart The Benedictine convent is situated in the midst of vineyards above the suburb of Eibingen. |
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Johannisberg Castle Johannisberg Castle has belonged to the family of Baron von Metternich since 1816. A wine estate received as a quasi medal for merits gained in service of the empire. That is good publicity no doubt, at least for those aware of a historical significance of Metternich. It pleases the eye, to see what this family has made of its property. |
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Oestricher Crane Oestrich with its "Lenchen" which is not a wench, but a particularly good viniculture site, producing "Klosterberg" and the "Doosberg", is situated directly on the Rhine . Here too, we find the known crane, already mentioned in chronicles of the early sixteenth century, with which the precious goods, the casks of wine, were loaded onto the Rhine ships. |
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Eberbach Monastery Eberbach monastery, which belongs to the community of Hattenheim, is an ancient viniculture refuge. Founded in 1136 by Cistercians, having suffered a succession of highs and lows, it was closed in 1803. The State Viniculture Demesne has been established here since 1918, its products being of high repute. There is even a genuine "Cabinet Cellar" on the premises. |
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Reichartshausen Castle Realm-type-live, envelope and staple of the monastery Eberbach. 1742 let the today's close-like building establish the about, but the monks enjoyed not very long. With the secularization, 1803, came the dissolution of the convention. 1971, only tenant, then 1998 as owners of the system, developed here the European Business School. And in such a way the set rounds, at the old monastic Business place now (private) a university for Business. Over everything the spirit of the economically extremely successful Eberbacher of monks floats. |
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Biebrich Castle The embankment of the Rhine, which the prices of Nassau finally chose as their ancestral seat of their residence, from the middle of the 18. century in form of Biebrich Castle, is one of the most interesting sightseeing points of the Rhine tour. Maximilian von Welsch had broadly stratified frontage with the centre pavilion built between 1710 and 1719. |
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