April 2007 Rhine River Cruise: Cruising Castle Valley and Marksburg Castle

Ehrenfels Castle on the edge of the Rudesheimer Rottland Vineyards. The castle was built around 1215 as a customs fortress. In the 1270's it passed into the possession of the archbishops of Mainz.  It was destroyed by the French in the late 1680's and has remained a ruin.

  

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