Bonn – The gate to the Romantic Rhine

Charming scenes for romantic travellers border the banks of the big river and crown the legendary Siebengebirge. The most famous ones are the Drachenfels and the Rolandsbogen, around which numerous myths and legends are centred. 
 
A river valley like in a poem: between Rheingau and Siebengebirge and between Bingen and Bonn you can experience the Romantic Rhine in a wonderful way: 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 beauties of the River Rhine. People were fascinated by the medieval mood of 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.

The kingdom of the Loreley, however, is not the only thing worth seeing. Further down the river there are fortresses, museums, historical villages such as Linz, which is full of half-timbered houses, original buildings like, for example, the famous “Bridge of Remagen” and the Rolandsbogen on the left side of the Rhine with the island Nonnenwerth, which forms a frame around the Siebengebirge right at the opposite. There you can go up from Königswinter to the Drachenfels mountain with Germany’s oldest rack railway, or by foot to the big Ölberg mountain, where two fantastic viewpoints wait for you.

Underneath the volcano-like formed Siebengebirge you will find Bonn, the former federal capital, which is known for its flair as a big university city, for its beautiful Baroque buildings and its numerous museums. With a length of 29 kilometres altogether on both sides of the Rhine, Bonn’s Rhine promenade is the longest coherent promenade at the Rhine and belongs to the most beautiful ones in Germany. At the “Alter Zoll”, visitors have a very special and beautiful view over the whole Siebengebirge mountains.

Next to the Dome of Cologne, the castles of Brühl nearby are also part of the UNESCO world cultural heritage. The castle Augustusburg, which is famous for its staircase created by Balthasar Neumann, and the hunting seat Falkenlust lead visitors into the time of the late Baroque and Rococo. 

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