River Cruise – Castles of the Middle Rhine

Koblenz to Bingen

The stretch of the Rhine between Koblenz and Bingen is called the “Romantic Rhine” and it is littered with ruins and 19th century Romantic Movement inspired copies of older castles…  Here are some of them:

Some of the castles

Schloss Stolzenfels: – A toll station since 1200’s. Destroyed in 1698 by the French was rebuilt in the neo-gothic style around 1826 as summer residence for Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Stolzenfels – a ‘Romatic fake’ calstle

Marksburg – Again 🙂

Marksburg

Burg ‘Maus’ – The Mouse Castle. Very close to the KatzBurg – The Cat Castle.

Burg Maus

Katzburg – The Cat Castle. Very close to the Burg ‘Maus’  – The Mouse Castle.

Katzburg

Rheinfels – Partial ruin since the French troops torched it in 1797’s. Unlike other castles on left bank of the middle Rhine it was not destroyed by Louis XIV in late 1600’s during the war of War of the Palatine Succession.

Rheinfels

Burg Stalheck

Burg Stalheck

Pflazgrafstein – A river toll castle, where a chain was stretched across the Rhine and toll was payable.

Pfalzgrafstein

And more castles –  There are may many more and we do have pictures of some of them, but this should give you an idea – each river bend has a  small village or with with a castle looming on the hill above…

another castle.