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Burg Rheinstein

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This castle was the home of Rudolf von Habsburg from 1282 to 1286. To establish law and order on the Rhine, he destroyed the neighboring castles of Burg Reichenstein and Burg Sooneck and hanged their notorious robber barons from the oak trees around the Clemens Church, a late-Romanesque basilica near Trechtingshausen. The Gobelin tapestries, 15th-century stained glass, wall and ceiling frescoes, a floor of royal apartments, and antique furniture—including a rare "giraffe spinet," which Kaiser Wilhelm I is said to have played—are well worth seeing. All of this is illuminated by candlelight on some summer Fridays. Rheinstein was the first of many a Rhine ruin to be rebuilt by a royal Prussian family in the 19th century.

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  • Address: From the A-61, take exit AS Bingen center. Continue on the B-9 heading toward Bingerbrück, driving through Bingerbrück; the castle is between Bingerbrück and Trechtingshausen; parking is below the castle, at B-9, Trechtingshausen, 55413 | Map It
  • Phone: 06721/6348
  • Cost: €4.30
  • Hours: Mid-Mar.--mid-Nov., daily 9:30--6; mid-Nov.--mid-Mar., weekends only 10--5 (weather permitting; call to inquire). Closed late Dec.--Feb.
  • Website: www.burg-rheinstein.de
  • Location: Bingen
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