History, knight robber, castle museum, collections
Trechtingshausen near Bingen on the Rhine river, Germany
on the Middle Rhine river, opposite of Assmannshausen, between Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Bingen, Boppard, Coblence / Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne / Köln, Oberwesel, in the valley of the Lorelei rock, in center of the romantic Rhine river valley

In the 13th century the castellans belonged to the notorious knight robbers. That's why the emperor Rudolf from Habsburg called to help. He was able to starve the castle after a 4-year siege in 1282 Dietrich from Hohenfels, lord on castle Reichenstein, was taken captive and was beheaded at the very old Clemens chapel. The saga from the man without a head comes from this time...

At about 1290 the castle then came to the dukes of Bavaria, who used it as a method of force in the fight for the German emperor crown.

In 1344 the emperor decided that the castle Reichenstein should belong in ownership of the archbishopric Mainz.

It's meaning as a fortress gradually went lost with the perfectioning of the fire weapons. The owners changed several times, the castle decayed, until it was rebuilt as a living residence of the Kirsch-Puricellis, one of the richest noble and industrial families of Europe in the year 1899. With its furnishing, with its collections, the castle Reichenstein still portrays an important example of German history and rhenish culture.

The castle museum on castle Reichenstein is presumably opened from March 1 to November 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Group guidances announcement as well as information at:
Burgverwaltung Burg Reichenstein (castle management castle Reichenstein),
Family Schmitz, 55413 Trechtingshausen,
Telephone from Germany: 06721 / 6117
Telephone from outside Germany:
+49 6721 / 6117