Making history come alive.

GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE

Way up high!

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

3,000 years of

vibrant history.

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 magnifi cent views from

the courtyard of the fortress and experience the most profound

construction project since its creation some 200 years ago.

Enjoy one of the most beautiful views the Rhine

has to offer from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

Panorama gondola lifts take you

from „Deutsches Eck“ to the

fortress in just a few minutes.

Highly exciting!

People have been living on the “Ehrenbreitstein” mountain since the

Stone Age. Celts built their fortifi cations 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.

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.

Highly valuable! Fortress treasure chamber

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!

• 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

• “House of Wine”:

wine and technology in the museum

and in the new bistro

• “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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Highly vibrant! Fortress from 2011

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

2 Dome Halls

3 Exhibition of the Cultural Heritage

Office for the Rhineland-Palatinate

4 Information board and meeting point

5 Onion garden

6 Fortress church

7 “Haus der keramischen Welten”

ceramics exhibition

8 Themed gardens – treasures of the region

Standing proud above the Rhine and Mosel –

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress is a real experience.

9 Exhibitions:

• 10,000 years of burial culture

• Peter Joseph Lenné in Rhineland

• UNESCO World Heritage Sites

10 Entrance

11 Rhineland-Palatinate stage

12 Historic roof gardens

13 “Lange Linie” casemate building

14 “Ungenannt” (unnamed) tower

Making history come alive.

GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE

Way up high!

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

3,000 years of

vibrant history.

Making history come alive.

GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE

Highly

up to date!

All the latest information

on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress

can be found at:

www.diefestungehrenbreitstein.de

www.buga2011.de

Facebook: “Festung Ehrenbreitstein”

Twitter: “Festung Koblenz”

Cultural Heritage Offi ce 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

Von der Europäischen Union

aus dem Europäischen Fonds für

regionale Entwicklung und vom

Land Rheinland-Pfalz kofi nanziert.

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 magnifi cent views from

the courtyard of the fortress and experience the most profound

construction project since its creation some 200 years ago.

Enjoy one of the most beautiful views the Rhine

has to offer from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

Panorama gondola lifts take you

from „Deutsches Eck“ to the

fortress in just a few minutes.