GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE
Making history come alive.
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Enjoy one of the most beautiful views the Rhine has to offer from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
Highly welcome! You are standing 118 metres (387 feet) above the Rhine, where the new Fortress Park is being created for the German Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA). New from 2011: we are opening the historic buildings for you to get a peek behind the scenes. The rooms and corridors are being altered and the barriers removed. The walls, paths, courts and roofs are being restored. And the youth hostel, with 157 beds, is set to open in December 2010. Come and enjoy the magnificent views from the courtyard of the fortress and experience the most profound construction project since its creation some 200 years ago.
Panorama gondola lifts take you from „Deutsches Eck“ to the fortress in just a few minutes.
Highly vibrant! Fortress from 2011
Standing proud above the Rhine and Mosel – Ehrenbreitstein Fortress is a real experience.
The face of the fortress will be changed with the 2011 German Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA) from 15 April to 16 October 2011. A fortress steeped in history is set to become the centre for vibrant culture on the Middle Rhine, with park grounds, museums, exhibitions, concerts, guided tours and festivals pointing the way to the future. Please come and visit us again. We hope to see you soon.
Special highlights of the German Federal Horticultural Show 2011 1 Restaurant Ferrari
9 Exhibitions:
2 Dome Halls
• 10,000 years of burial culture
3 Exhibition of the Cultural Heritage
• Peter Joseph Lenné in Rhineland
Office for the Rhineland-Palatinate
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• UNESCO World Heritage Sites
4 Information board and meeting point
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5 Onion garden
11 Rhineland-Palatinate stage
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6 Fortress church
12 Historic roof gardens
7 “Haus der keramischen Welten”
13 “Lange Linie” casemate building 14 “Ungenannt” (unnamed) tower
ceramics exhibition 8 Themed gardens – treasures of the region
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Highly valuable! Fortress treasure chamber
People have been living on the “Ehrenbreitstein” mountain since the Stone Age. Celts built their fortifications here some 3,000 years ago, and the Romans also used the location‘s natural defences some 1,000 years later. The buildings you see today were constructed over the ruins of the former castle around 200 years ago. Today they are home to cultural treasures.
All generations have kept their valuables safe up high on the “Ehrenbreitstein” mountain. In medieval times, the electors stored their treasure here. Indeed, the location is home to the world’s only Roman dragon’s head guidon. And from 2011 there will be even more to see. Come and see for yourself!
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The fortress will reopen for visitors in new splendour in 2011. A lift guides you down through the location’s rich history, and you can also travel up to the highest tower in the fortress and visit historic roof gardens from the Stone Age, the ancient world and the Middle Ages. The new “House of Wine” offers you everything in and around the oldest drink of humanity.
• Tour of the historic fortress: 5,000 years of history over 500 metres of corridors and pathways • Take a lift into history: archaeological finds from 3,000 years beneath the Prussian Dome Halls • Koblenz State Museum: the largest collection of technology and photography in the Rhineland-Palatinate • Archaeological collection: million year-old finds from the troves of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Archaeologists
• Roof gardens: 10,000 years of landscape design and culture with show gardens from the Stone Age, the ancient world, the Middle Ages and modern times
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• “House of Wine”: wine and technology in the museum and in the new bistro
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• “Ehrenmal des Heeres” memorial: the central memorial for the German army soldiers who fell in the two world wars • Info on the 2011 German Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA): Rhineland-Palatinate state presentation at the BUGA show in the “Lange Linie” casemate building and in the former moat, exhibitions on the works of Peter Josef Lenné and on 10,000 years of burial culture, gardens of the Middle Rhine region in the former moat, “Haus der keramischen Welten” ceramics exhibition in the “Ravelin” building
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GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE
Making history come alive.
Way up high!
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All the latest information on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress can be found at: www.diefestungehrenbreitstein.de www.buga2011.de Facebook: “Festung Ehrenbreitstein” Twitter: “Festung Koblenz”
Enjoy one of the most beautiful views the Rhine has to offer from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
Cultural Heritage Office for the Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE) Castles, palaces, antiquities Tel. +49 (0)261/6675-4000 • E-mail: bsa@gdke.rlp.de Picture credit: GDKE, Plan Context Landschaftsarchitektur
Panorama gondola lifts take you from „Deutsches Eck“ to the fortress in just a few minutes. Von der Europäischen Union aus dem Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung und vom Land Rheinland-Pfalz kofinanziert.
Making history come alive.
GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE
Highly welcome! You are standing 118 metres (387 feet) above the Rhine, where the new Fortress Park is being created for the German Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA). New from 2011: we are opening the historic buildings for you to get a peek behind the scenes. The rooms and corridors are being altered and the barriers removed. The walls, paths, courts and roofs are being restored. And the youth hostel, with 157 beds, is set to open in December 2010. Come and enjoy the magnificent views from the courtyard of the fortress and experience the most profound construction project since its creation some 200 years ago.