Information on opening hours can be found here.

Individuals
€5.00              Adults
€4.00              Adults, concessions*
€3.00              Children and young people**

Families
€5.00              Family ticket 1 (1 adult and children)
€10.00            Family ticket 2 (2 adults and children)

Groups (10 or more people)
€4.50              Adults, price per person
€2.00              Children and young people**, price per person
€2.00              School groups, price per person

* With valid identification: trainees and students under 28, those completing national voluntary civil or military services, pensioners, those with severe disabilities, the unemployed and those receiving welfare benefits

** Children of 7 or over, holders of an honorary Rheinland-Pfalz Card, students over 18 and schoolchildren with school ID.

There is a car park downhill from Stolzenfels Castle, which is free if you visit the castle. It is about 20 minutes’ walk to the castle.

The coach park is in front of the car park.

Regrettably, it is not possible to make the path through the castle gardens (about 20 minutes) accessible for wheelchairs. For those with disabilities who have the relevant ID, there is the option to drive up to the castle, where there are three disabled parking bays. Please contact the castle office before driving up (Phone +49 (0) 261 51656).

Within Stolzenfels Castle itself, only the outer and inner castle courtyards are accessible to wheelchair users. Regrettably, as it is a historical site, the interior cannot be made accessible.

There is a drinks machine selling refreshments at Stolzenfels Castle. There are also a range of refreshments on offer nearby once you return from your visit to the castle.

Park and gardens
Enjoy a walk through the landscaped gardens designed by Peter Joseph Lenné, complete with grottos and waterfalls. The real gem of the castle collection is the ‘pergola garden’, with its sumptuous rose bushes, pergola surrounded by vines and flowers and a tea hall with a Byzantine feel to it. There are impressive views from the ‘Rhine terrace’, stretching from the mouth of the Lahn to the Marksburg and Braubach, and up the Rhine towards Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

Combine your visit to Stolzenfels Castle with a boat trip
During the peak season, there are lots of daily departures from Koblenz to Stolzenfels and back (travel time about 30 minutes).
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The majestic Stolzenfels Castle rises up on the left side of the Rhine opposite the mouth of the Lahn where the electoral regions of Trier, Mainz and Cologne once met. Stolzenfels Castle is now considered a textbook example of Rhine romanticism. To explore the castle, visitors must first conquer a serpentine approach through a wooded gorge from Stolzenfels. This takes you past a rocky grotto with a waterfall and a catholic parish church on a rocky outcrop, then over a viaduct before finally catching a first glimpse of the castle. While the complex is impressive from outside, the interior is unmissable. One of the highlights of any tour of the castle is the large knights’ hall, which was designed by Schinkel based on the refectory of Malbork Castle near Gdańsk. The wall paintings in the chapel are among the best preserved wall painting cycles from the Düsseldorf school of painting and definitely worth seeing. But, without a doubt, the crowning glory of any visit is the view over the Rhine and surrounding areas. Stolzenfels Castle was burnt down during the Nine Years’ War and its reconstruction was not only born of the contemporary enthusiasm for the romantic Rhine landscape and medieval history, but also a key element of Prussian cultural politics on the Rhine. Crown Prince Frederick William, who would later become King Frederick William IV of Prussia, was gifted the castle ruins in 1823. After a close inspection of the medieval remains in their fantastic location, Frederick William decided to convert the castle ruins into a neo-Gothic summer residence based on plans by the famous Berlin architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. In 1842, the completed palace and gardens provided a picture-perfect backdrop for a festival in historic costumes. With its light paintwork, its fountain and its walled gardens, the palace emanates a cheerful Italian flair. The royal living quarters have been preserved in the same romantic style created by the original designers for the rulers of the time. Paintings, weapons and furniture dating back hundreds of years combine with the neo-Gothic interior of the mid-19th century. The wall paintings in the palace chapel and the small banqueting hall are among the most significant works of the Rhine Romanticism movement. Together with the grounds designed by leading Prussian landscape gardener Peter Josef Lenné and the castle gardens, it adds up to a romantic work of art that can be seen as the most important evidence of Prussian Romanticism on the Rhine. The gardens and parks around the castle were also restored as part of the structural renovation of the complex for the National Garden Show in Koblenz in 2011. (From “Reisezeit – Zeitreise”. Verlag Schnell + Steiner. 2010)