Stolzenfels Castle

The Stolzenfels Castle is a construction that stands in the town of the same name near Koblenz (Germany) on the banks of the Rhine River at a point near the mouth of the Lahn River.

History

Image of 1900.

Picture of 1907.

Fortress of the Electorate of Trier During the Thirty Years' War, the old castle was occupied by the Swedish army in 1632 and then by the French army between 1634 and 1646 when it was returned to the electorate. During the Nine Years' War, the French occupiers destroyed the building in 1689, which spent more than a hundred years in a state of ruin. In 1823 the city of Koblenz presented what was left of the castle to Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Frederick Wilhelm had the new building built by the German architect Friedrich Schinkel, who was head of the Prussian state works department and architect to the royal family. Construction was completed in 1847.

Since 2002 the castle is part of the World Heritage Site as part of the Middle Rhine Valley.