Trifels Castle | Annweiler am Trifels
Trifels Castle was an important imperial fortress during the time of the Staufer Emperors. It sits above the small town of Annweiler in the south...
Cultural highlights in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate, a showplace of European culture located in the far west of Germany, has a lot to offer – the Cultural Heritage Directorate General shows you where!
They include the top-class state museums in Koblenz, Mainz and Trier as well as the state's many castles, palaces and antiquities.
Start your exploration by discovering ancient Roman buildings such as Porta Nigra, the amphitheatre and the Viehmarkt thermal baths in Trier, Middle Rhine castles such as Pfalzgrafenstein or Stolzenfels Castle and Villa Ludwigshöhe Castle as well as grand castles Trifels and Hardenburg in the Palatinate. Not to be forgotten: the Prussian fortress of Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, one of Europe's largest fortifications and the showplace of a comprehensive cultural programme.
Rhineland-Palatinate has as many as four UNESCO World Heritage sites: Speyer Cathedral, the Roman Monuments, Trier Cathedral and Liebfrauenkirche, the cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley and Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes.
Hardenburg Castle and Fortress Ruins | Bad Dürkheim
The mighty Hardenburg, built in the 13th century, is one of the largest castle ruins in the country. It was a castle,...
Castle complex Alt-Dahn - Grafendahn - Tanstein | Dahn
The ruins of the three fortifications are perched on five adjacent red sandstone rocks. The castles are first mentioned in documents in the first...
Villa Ludwigshöhe Castle | Edenkoben
The villa is closed for extensive renovation work until the summer of 2022. For tours of the site, please go to
Landesdenkmal Klause Kastel-Staadt | Kastel-Staadt
High above the valley of the Saar below, at the tip of a protruding sandstone cliff, lies the hermitage of Kastel-Staadt, providing fascinating...