Information on opening hours can be found here.

€8.00              Adults
€6.50              Group of adults (20 people or more)
€7.00              Adults, concessions*
€5.00              Schoolchildren, students, trainees*
€4.00              Children*
€3.50              School groups and other groups of children*

Family tickets
€9.50              Family ticket I (1 adult with up to 4 children*)
€16.50            Family ticket II (2 adults with up to 4 children*)

* Concessions for:
Adults: Pensioners with ID, persons with severe disability ID, those on unemployment benefit II and other welfare payments, if evidence provided
Children: 7 to 17 inclusive, schoolchildren, students, trainees with ID
People completing national voluntary civil services, with ID

Entrance is free for children of 6 years and under!

1 day combined ticket (includes one return trip per day)
€19.00           Adults
€17.70           Group of adults (20 people or more)
€17.70           Adults, concessions*
€10.90             Schoolchildren, students, trainees*
€8.60             Children*
€7.30             School groups and other groups of children*

+ €4.00          Bike
+ €4.00          Dog

Family tickets
€30.00           Family ticket I (1 adult with up to 4 children*)
€46.00           Family ticket II (2 adults with up to 4 children*)

Prices for the cable car without admission to the fortress can be found at www.seilbahn-koblenz.de.

* Concessions for:
Adults: Pensioners with ID, persons with severe disability ID, those on unemployment benefit II and other welfare payments, if evidence provided
Children: 7 to 17 inclusive, schoolchildren, students, trainees with ID
People completing national voluntary civil services, with ID

Entrance is free for children of 6 years and under!

The house rules for Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Cultural Centre | Koblenz State Museum can be found here.

The Koblenz cable car – An amazing experience

You can travel from Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer at the Deutsches Eck up to the fortress plateau in one of the most modern cable car systems in the world. The cable car connects visitors to the cultural experience of Ehrenbreitstein and the ancient fortress. The Koblenz cable car is 100% accessible and can carry up to 7,600 passengers per hour. The glass cabins afford unforgettable panoramic views over the Rhine and are definitely one of the major attractions in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. Enjoy spectacular views, climb an impressive 112 metres in altitude and take in the beautiful city on the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle as you ascend.

You can find the latest cable car timetables here: www.seilbahn-koblenz.de.

Visitor car park near the entrance building of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Cultural Centre.

Open at all times
€1.50 per hour or part thereof

You can leave the car park within 15 minutes without having to pay.
It costs €15.00 to park all day (24 hours).
You will be charged €24.00 if you lose your parking ticket.

Please note the car park rules.

Parking caravans and motorhomes in the car park by the entrance building is prohibited.
You can find information on caravan and motorhome sites here: www.koblenz-touristik.de.

Coach stop (boarding and exiting)
At the end of Greiffenklaustrasse right by the entrance to the fortress (short-stay car park)

Coach parking
By the former Fritsch barracks on the right-hand side of Greiffenklaustrasse, around 800 metres before the fortress. Free parking for coaches.

• Restaurant Casino (upper castle courtyard) with outside service
  A modern take on Prussian cuisine served in the former officers’ casino with wonderful views over Deutsches Eck and the whole of Koblenz.
   
• Beer garden (upper castle courtyard)
   
• Kiosk (at top of cable car)
  
  Please call +49 (0) 261 6675 2020 to book a table or find out the current opening hours.
   

The Koblenz youth hostel can be found inside Ehrenbreitstein Fortress and is perfect for an exciting family holiday, a fun school trip or various other occasions.
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress youth hostel
Phone +49 (0) 261 972 870
56077 Koblenz
koblenz(at)diejugendherbergen.de

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress has a level of accessibility that is virtually unprecedented in a historic building. This benefits both wheelchair users and those who have a sensory impairment or other impairment that affects mobility (e.g. elderly people or families with buggies).

• Accessibility virtually throughout the whole fortress, including the toilets, with ramps, lifts and wheelchair lifts
• The cable car and inclined lift are also accessible
• Parking (paid) for those with severe disabilities with the appropriate badge
• Braille, raised pictograms and tactile paving for guidance
• Seven three-dimensional models of the fortress

Settled for 5,000 years, a fortress for 3,000 years, a stronghold for the Trier electoral princes on the Rhine for around 800 years and finally a Prussian fortress: the location of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress is a focal point in historical terms.
Between 1817 and 1828, Ehrenbreitstein was built up by the Prussians as the geographical centre of a line of fortresses extending from Wesel to Rastatt. The promontory where the complex sits today has been settled since time immemorial. Celts, Teutons and Romans have all lived here. They were followed for about 800 years by Trier bishops and prince-electors, and then came the Prussians, who expanded Ehrenbreitstein Fortress and Koblenz in an impressive neo-Prussian fortified style, which visitors can still enjoy today.

The Koblenz State Museum is now a regional Cultural History Museum with four exhibition buildings at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. Founded in 1956 as the ‘State prehistory and folklore collection for the Middle Rhine’, it has been a state museum since 1972 and part of the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland‑Palatinate since 2007.
It includes family-friendly exhibitions on popular topics and exhibitions on photography, food and drink, archaeology and regional economic history.

Koblenz-Touristik
Phone +49 (0) 261 129 1610
touristinformation(at)koblenz-touristik.de
www.visit-koblenz.de/en

Experience the history of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress close up!
The ‘Milestones of fortress history’, which start just next to the main entrance, are an interesting, interactive trip back in time through the history of the fortress.

From the ‘5,000 years of Ehrenbreitstein’ exhibition to the flag tower, which houses both the highest and the lowest points of the fortress: while its central viewing platform affords spectacular all-round views, there is also an impressive multimedia exhibition on ‘3,000 years a stronghold’ way down underground.

1. 5,000 years of Ehrenbreitstein
2. The fortress as a prison
3. Fortress Faces
4. Ordnance at the fortress
5. Supplying the fortress
6. Gunsmithery
7. Post-war accommodation
8. Fortress in transition
9. Flag tower / Excavation
10. German Army Memorial. Information room
11. Guardhouse
12. Passageway
13. Detention

House of Indulgence: Rhineland-Palatinate, the kingdom of wine
Learn about the 2,000 years of wine culture in the six Rhineland‑Palatinate growing areas and the importance of wine for tourism and the economy.
You can also sample some of the wines in the adjoining wine bar and find out more about local wines, grape varieties and the growing and production processes from our wine ambassadors.
There are cultural and culinary events in the glass-covered inner courtyard throughout the year, which are the perfect excuse for a special treat.

Archaeological Museum: Hidden treasures. Archaeology in the Middle Rhine and the Moselle
Take a walk through nearly one million years of human history. The permanent exhibition showcases evidence of human activity on the Middle Rhine and the Moselle from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. The exhibits are among the most important finds of the Koblenz branch of the state archaeology department since 1949.
In the interactive area next door, you can get hands-on with history and touch objects that would normally be behind glass.

Archaeological Museum: Historical Time Gardens
On the roof of the Archaeological Museum, you can explore gardens from previous millennia. How did people’s gardens look in the Neolithic Period and when the Romans ruled the Rhine? Which plants grew in a medieval farm garden and in the subsistence garden of someone living in Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in the 1950s?

You can also visit a range of interesting temporary exhibitions at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Cultural Centre | Koblenz State Museum. For more information click here.