Ehrenfels Castle Ruin
In the 17th century it was still a castle as stately as a palace - today the once proud residential and customs site is a ruin: as a picturesque landmark, Ehrenfels forms the entrance to the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley with its famous chain of castles. It can only be visited from the outside.
History
At the end of the Rheingau, the Rhine bends sharply from its course westwards towards the north. There, about 80 meters above the water level at river kilometer 530.2, lies the ruin of Ehrenfels Castle. It rises near Rüdesheim on the Rhine as a landmark at the entrance to the 67-kilometre-long UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley - as the prelude, so to speak, to a large density of castles lined up in rows, which characterise this old cultural landscape in the narrow breakthrough of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. They are actually rebuilt mountain castles with hotels and restaurants. Or they are the remains of destroyed castles as sights.
Source for text and images
https://www.schloesser-hessen.de/de/burgruine-ehrenfels
