Discovered by English travellers

A river valley like in a poem: between Rheingau and Siebengebirge you can see whatever the “Romantic Rhine” proposes: impressive fortresses, high rocks, steep vineyards and little villages like from a picture book. Since the end of the 18th century, English travellers, painters and poets have been discovering the beauty of the River Rhine. People were fascinated by the medieval mood in the churches and collected myths and legends from the Rhine. Above all Clemens von Brentano is worth mentioning here as the creator of the “Romantic Rhine”. His Loreley ballad, which was transferred into a poem later on by Heinrich Heine from Düsseldorf, is a synonym of that time still today.
 
Please have a look at www.rheinischersagenweg.de to follow the
traces of the romantic and well-known fairy tales and stories about the Rhine, Mosel, Lahn, and Nahe rivers.