Before leaving St. Goarshausen on the train to Frankfurt for my flight to Warsaw, I found myself increasingly looking across the Rhine at Rheinfels Castle in St. Goar. Unfortunately, we never got round to visiting it during our stay for the Loreley 'Night of the Prog' Festival.
Have just read that Rheinfels, built in 1245, is the largest castle overlooking the Rhine, and once covered five times its current area. It is also said that during peacetime, 300-600 people lived in the castle, while during a siege, this number could swell to 4,500.
Throughout our stay in St. Goarshausen, I enjoyed zooming in on whatever caught my eye on the other side of the Rhine in St. Goar:
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