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gins. If you stop here, take a walk through the park, noticing the reconstructed memorial to
the
Kaiser
. Across the river, the yellow Ehrenbreitstein Castle now houses a hostel. It's a
30-minute hike from the station to the Koblenz boat dock.
Km 586—Lahneck Castle (Burg Lahneck):
Above the modern autobahn bridge over
the Lahn River, this castle
(Burg)
was built in 1240 to defend local silver mines; the castle
was ruined by the French in 1688 and rebuilt in the 1850s in Neo-Gothic style. Burg Lah-
neck faces another Romantic rebuild, the yellow Schloss Stolzenfels (out of view above the
train, a 10-minute climb from tiny parking lot, open for touring, closed Mon). Note that a
Burg
is a defensive fortress, while a
Schloss
is mainly a showy palace.
