Hotel Schloss Rheinfels stands on the site where Count Diether V of Katzenelnbogen constructed the largest fortress complex on the Rhine in 1245. The castle’s strategic position 120 meters above the river controlled the narrowest navigable passage of the Middle Rhine Valley—every merchant vessel, every military flotilla, every ecclesiastical delegation passed under the visual command … Continue reading Hotel Schloss Rheinfels: Medieval Fortress Command Above the Rhine Gorge