Rhein River Castles

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Castle Schoenburg is now a restaurant/hotel

Of great importance to travel agents and tour guides, the location of the Rhein River facilitates the movement of hordes of tourists from London and Amsterdam to mid-Germany, and on to Austria, Switzerland and Italy. The hundreds of passenger boats are a handy place to deposit train-loads and bus-loads of tourists, then a few hours or days later, the tour groups continue their vacation using surface transportation.

The 120 river miles from Köln to Mainz is the most famous portion of the Rhein and is known to tourists the world over. It seemed like a good idea to disclose the number of castles that might be found along the Rhein River. A look at the pictures in the tourist brochure “The Rheinlauf, von Mainz bis Köln,” shows dozens, and a tourist book shows pictures of thirty or so along the Rhein.
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The Castle above the small Rhein River town of Kaub is also a hotel.