Gutenfels Castle (german: Burg Gutenfels), also known as Caub Castle, is a castle 110m above the town of

Kaub Kaub (old spelling: ''Caub'') is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. It is part of the municipality (''Verbandsgemeinde'') Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 50 km west from Wi ...

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

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History

Gutenfels Castle was built in 1220. It was used with the toll castle,

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle Pfalzgrafenstein Castle (german: link=no, Burg Pfalzgrafenstein) is a toll castle on the Falkenau island, otherwise known as Pfalz Island in the River Rhine near Kaub, Germany. Known as "the Pfalz", this former stronghold is famous for its pic ...

in the middle of the Rhein and the fortified town of

on the farthest side to provide an impenetrable anti-toll zone for the Holy Roman Emperor until

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

purchased the area (1866) and ended this toll in 1867. The castle is part of the

Rhine Gorge The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany. It was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage S ...

, a

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World Heritage Site added in 2002. The castle transitioned from a hotel into private ownership in 2006. Burg Pfalzgrafenstein - Kaub

Notes and references

Sources and external links

https://web.archive.org/web/20110719090603/http://www.talderloreley.de/impressionen/burg.15.en.php
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