The atlas
39 landmarks in the atlas.
The Castle Map atlas charts 22 castles, 3 fortresses, 6 palaces & châteaux and 8 ruins on the Middle Rhine. They span from c. 901 to 1828.
The best known is Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, #289 of 9,079 worldwide.
Country pages: Germany.
Travelling rather than browsing? The Rhine castle route puts 32 of them in travel order, Bingen to Koblenz.
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Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, a fortress in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, stands on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the mouth of the…
Castle · 12th century · #40 in Germany
The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 13th century · #53 in Germany
Stolzenfels Castle is a former medieval fortress castle turned into a palace, near Koblenz on the left bank of the Rhine, in the state of…
Castle · 14th century · #61 in Germany
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, also known as the Pfalz, is a toll castle situated on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, adjacent to Kaub, Germany.
Ruin · 13th century · #67 in Germany
Rheinfels Castle is a castle ruin located above the left bank of the Rhine in Sankt Goar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 14th century · #85 in Germany
Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Castle · 14th century · #93 in Germany
Rheinstein Castle is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The castle was constructed in about 1316/1317.
Castle · 12th century · #95 in Germany
Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 11th century · #104 in Germany
Nassau Castle, located in Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and named after it, was a castle and the ancestrial seat of the House of Nassau and…
Castle · 14th century · #115 in Germany
Maus Castle is a castle above the village of Wellmich in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Palace & château · 10th century · #119 in Germany
Schaumburg Castle is a schloss in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Balduinstein near Limburg an der Lahn.
Palace & château · 18th century · #138 in Germany
The Electoral Palace in Koblenz, was the residence of the last Archbishop and Elector of Trier, Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, who commissioned the…
Castle · 13th century · #159 in Germany
Lahneck Castle is a medieval fortress located in the city of Lahnstein in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Koblenz.
Palace & château · #165 in Germany
Schloss Johannisberg is a neoclassical palace and historic winery located in the village of Johannisberg, west of Wiesbaden in Hesse, within the…
Castle · 11th century · #178 in Germany
The Schönburg is a castle above the medieval town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley,…
Castle · 13th century · #196 in Germany
Liebenstein Castle is a castle above the village of Kamp-Bornhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 13th century · #207 in Germany
Sooneck Castle is a castle in the upper middle valley of the Rhine, in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Palace & château · 17th century · #214 in Germany
Schloss Oranienstein is one of the palaces of the House of Orange-Nassau, sited at Diez on the Lahn.
Castle · 13th century · #215 in Germany
Gutenfels Castle, historically known as Caub Castle or Kaub Castle, is a castle located 110m above the town of Kaub in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 11th century · #217 in Germany
Reichenstein Castle, also known as Falkenburg is a castle in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Castle · 13th century · #218 in Germany
Klopp Castle is a castle in the town of Bingen am Rhein in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Ruin · 12th century · #293 in Germany
Sterrenberg Castle is a castle above the village of Kamp-Bornhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Ruin · 13th century · #294 in Germany
Ehrenfels Castle is a ruined hillside castle above the Rhine Gorge near the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany.
Fortress · 19th century · #307 in Germany
Koblenz Fortress was part of a Prussian fortress system near the city of Koblenz in Germany which consisted of the city fortifications of Koblenz and…
Ruin · 13th century · #389 in Germany
Fürstenberg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Oberdiebach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Ruin · 12th century · #397 in Germany
The ruins of Sayn Castle, the 12th century family castle of the counts of Sayn and Sayn-Wittgenstein, are in Sayn, part of the borough of Bendorf on…
Castle · 11th century · #406 in Germany
The high-medieval Diez Count's Castle is a hilltop castle above the town of Diez in the Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 13th century · #442 in Germany
The Heimburg is a castle in the village of Niederheimbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Castle · 13th century · #465 in Germany
The Old Castle was a former Elector-owned, substantial water castle in the German city of Koblenz, incepted in the 13th century.
Ruin · #500 in Germany
Laurenburg Castle is a castle ruin above the Lahn near Laurenburg in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Fortress · 19th century · #521 in Germany
Fort Constantin or Fort Grand Duke Constantine is a historical fortress in Koblenz-Karthause district of Koblenz, Germany, built in 1827/1828.
Ruin · 13th century · #523 in Germany
Grenzau Castle is a ruined spur castle at 250 m above sea level near Höhr-Grenzhausen in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the state of…
Castle · 12th century · #526 in Germany
The Brömserburg is a castle located near the banks of the Rhine in the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the German state of…
Castle · 14th century · #556 in Germany
Burg Reichenberg is a medieval castle complex above the municipality of Reichenberg.
Castle · 14th century · #652 in Germany
Hohlenfels Castle is a rock castle in the municipality of Mudershausen in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Ruin · 14th century · #656 in Germany
Burg Ardeck is the ruin of a late medieval hilltop castle at 157 m above sea level beside the village of Holzheim in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in…
Castle · 12th century · #668 in Germany
The Boosenburg is a lowland castle in Rüdesheim am Rhein, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, Germany, located in the Rhine valley and dating back to the…
Palace & château · 13th century · #677 in Germany
The Martinsburg, also called Martinsburg Palace or Martinsschloss, is a palace complex in Lahnstein.
Palace & château · #705 in Germany
The Karlsburg, also known as the House of Four Towers, is a town palace in Bad Ems in the Rhein-Lahn district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The Castle Map atlas charts 22 castles, 3 fortresses, 6 palaces & châteaux and 8 ruins on the Middle Rhine. They span from c. 901 to 1828.
The best known is Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, #289 of 9,079 worldwide.
Schaumburg Castle — c. 901.
