Sightseeing: middle rhine
There are numerous castles on the middle rhine, located on strategic hillside positions and on rhine islands.
- Klopp castle, located on top of a small hill beside Bingen, built around 1235
- Rheinstein castle, located on a slope, built around 1315
- Reichenstein castle, built from around 1095
- Sooneck castle, first documentary mentioned 1271
- Heimburg castle, built around 1294
- Fürstenberg castle, built from 1219
- Stahlberg castle, located in a side valley, built from 1150
- Stahleck castle, built from the 11th century
- Schönburg castle, built from 1100 to 1149
- Rheinfels castle, built from around 1235, extended in the 16th century
- Stolzenfels castle, located on a hillside position near Koblenz, built from 1242 to 1259 under the reign of Archbishop Arnold II
- Fort Konstantin, fortification built from 1822 to 1827
- Alte Burg, The Old Castle, castle built about 1175, today town archive of Koblenz
- Kurfürstliches Schloss Koblenz, residence of the electoral prince, built from 1777 to 1793
- Feste Kaiser Franz, fortification near Koblenz, built from 1816 to 1822
- Stadtburg Andernach, built in the 12th and 13th century, extended in the 15th century
- Namedy castle, built in the 14th century
- Brohleck castle, built from around 1300, reconstructed several times
- Rheineck castle, built from 1000 to 1100
- Rolandseck castle, built from 1122
- Godesburg castle, near Bad Godesberg, first documentary mentioned as cult site in 722, laying of foundation stone 1210
- Poppelsdorfer Schloss, baroque palace and residence building built from 1715 to 1740
- Kurfürstliches Schloss Bonn, residence of the electoral prince of Cologne, built from 1697 to 1705
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- Boosenburg, castle in Rüdesheim, built from 1100 to 1200
- Brömserburg, castle in Rüdesheim, built from 1186 to 1190 on fundaments of a former fortification
- Ehrenfels castle, located on a hillside position near Rüdesheim, built around 1210
- Pfalzgrafenstein, toll castle located on an island in the rhine river, world famous and unique position, built from 1326
- Gutenfels castle, located on a hillside position overlooking Kaub, built from 1220 to 1230
- Katz castle, located on a slope near St. Goarshausen, built from 1355 to 1371
- Reichenberg castle, located in a side valley, built around 1319
- Maus castle (or Peterseck castle), built from 1353 to 1388
- Liebenstein castle, built around 1284
- Sterrenberg castle, built about 1190
- Liebeneck castle, residence and summer palace, built around 1590
- Osterspai castle, small castle built about 1110
- Marksburg, castle on a hillside position near Braubach, fist documentary mentioned 1231
- Martinsburg castle, located in Lahnstein, built from 1298
- Lahneck castle, hillside position near Lahnstein, built from 1226
- Ehrenbreitstein fortress, fortification on top of a mountain opposite Koblenz, built from 1817 to 1832
- Sayn castle near Bendorf, built from 1154
- Engers castle, summer residence and palace built from 1759 to 1764 according to plans of Johannes Seiz, late baroque architecture
- Altwied castle, located near Neuwied, built from 1129
- Marienburg castle, small baroque palace built from 1750 to 1754
- Hammerstein castle, remnants of a castle built about 900 to 1000
- Arenfels castle, built from the 13th century, reconstructed in neo gothic architecture from 1849 to 1855; 365 windows, 52 doors and 12 steeples
- Linz castle, small castle built from 1364 to 1368
- Ockenfels castle, built from 1200 to 1250
- Drachenfels castle, built from 1140 to 1167, famous ruin of romanticism; George Byron "The castled crag of Drachenfels"; Edward Bulwer Lytton "Pilgrims of the rhine"
- Drachenburg castle, pace built from 1882 to 1884