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Welcome to Stolzenfels Castle

Travellers can spot it from afar: the light-coloured castle on the left bank of the Rhine is different to most of the buildings you encounter at the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage site.

Stolzenfels Castle must currently remain closed due to safety measures.
We ask for your understanding!

Contact
Schloss Stolzenfels
56075 Koblenz
Phone +49 (0) 261 6675 4850
stolzenfels(at)gdke.rlp.de

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Stolzenfels is a historical site of the Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland‑Palatinate), www.gdke.rlp.de.

 

There is a car park downhill from Stolzenfels Castle. Access to the car park is only possible during the castle's opening hours. It is about 20 minutes’ walk to the castle.

Car park fees are charged in addition to the regular entrance fee.

1.00 € parking time up to 1 hour
1.00 € Parking duration up to 6 hours (per hour or part thereof)
7,00 € day ticket

Emergency service only during the opening hours of the castle via the INFO button.

The coach park is in front of the car park.

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.

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 6675 4850).

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.

Stolzenfels Palace rises majestically where the borders of Electorate Trier, Electorate Mainz and Electorate Cologne once met, opposite from where the Lahn flows into the Rhine.

The original castle complex was builtaround 1244 at the behest of Archbishop Arnold von Isenburg of Trier. Rhine tolls were levied at the castle from the 14th century until 1412 at the latest. In 1688,
after an unsuccessful siege of the city of Koblenz, the castle was burnt down by the French and from then on was used as a quarry.

After the ruins of Stolzenfels Castle became the property of the city of Koblenz in 1802, the city donated them to the Prussian Crown Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in 1823. He had the castle rebuilt from 1836 onwards according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The artloving monarch‘s maxim for dealing with the medieval ruins was to “preserve the remains as much as possible“. In combination with the landscape park designed by Prussian Garden artist Peter Joseph Lenné and the palace gardens, a comprehensive work of art was created that can be considered
the most important testimony to Prussian Romanticism on the Rhine.

To get to the palace, visitors first have to make a serpentine ascent from the Stolzenfels district through a wooded gorge. Under the viaduct, the path leads past a rock grotto with a waterfall and a Catholic parish church on a rocky spur.

While the castle is already impressive from the outside, you should not miss the tour of its interior. One of the tour highlights is the “Great Knights‘ Hall“. As in the other rooms, the original  furnishings have been preserved: centuries-old paintings, weapons and furniture mingle with neo-Gothic furnishings from the mid-19th century. The murals in the castle chapel and in the “Minor Knights‘ Hall“ are among the most important works of Rhenish High Romanticism.

The crowning of the tour should definitely be the view over the Rhine and its surroundings.

Koblenz-Touristik
Phone +49 (0) 261 1291610
touristinformation(at)koblenz-touristik.de
www.visit-koblenz.de/en

Romantischer Rhein Tourismus GmbH
Phone +49 (0) 261 - 97 38 47-0
info‎@romantischer-rhein.de
www.romantischer-rhein.de/en/