Schloss Stolzenfels
Schloss Stolzenfels
- Address
- Koblenz
- Transport
- Website
- Phone
- 516 56
- Price
- child €1.30, full €2.60
- Hours
- interior closed until Apr 2011
Lonely Planet review for Schloss Stolzenfels
With its crenellated towers, ornate gables and medieval-style fortifications, Schloss Stolzenfels, 5km south of the town centre above the Rhine's left bank, exudes the timeless, sentimental beauty for which the Romantic Rhine is famed. In 1823, the future Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV fell under its spell and had the castle - ruined by the French - rebuilt as his summer residence; during the Victorian era, guests included Queen Victoria. Today, the rooms remain largely as the king left them, with paintings, weapons, armour and furnishings from the mid-19th century.
