Lahneck Castle was a possession of the Elector of Mainz too. Built around 1226 it towers majestically on a mountain top at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Lahn in Lahnstein.
Learn more about the power of the archbishop of Mainz and a remarkable fortification technique of that time in our YouTube-video about the Rheingauer Gebück and the Mainz diocesan feud from 1462.
Lahneck Castle
Lahneck Castle was a possession of the Elector of Mainz too. Built around 1226 it towers majestically on a mountain top at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Lahn in Lahnstein.
Learn more about the power of the archbishop of Mainz and a remarkable fortification technique of that time in our YouTube-video about the Rheingauer Gebück and the Mainz diocesan feud from 1462.