Koblenz: Deutsches Eck, Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, and Two Thousand Years Where Rhine Meets Mosel
Koblenz has a population around 107,000 and occupies the Deutsches Eck (German Corner), where the Mosel flows into the Rhine. The city is over 2,000 years old, founded as Confluentes by the Romans in 9 BC. The Festung Ehrenbreitstein, perched 118 metres above the Rhine on the opposite bank, is one of Europe's largest preserved fortresses and now houses the Landesmuseum Koblenz. A cable car crosses the Rhine to the fortress, installed for the 2011 Bundesgartenschau and made permanent due to popularity.
The Kurfuerstliches Schloss (Electoral Palace), built in the 1780s as the last residential palace of the Holy Roman Empire, sits along the Rhine promenade. Koblenz is the northern gateway to the UNESCO Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65-kilometre stretch of castles, vineyards, and the Lorelei rock. The city was heavily garrisoned by French and then Prussian troops; military architecture shapes the urban landscape. The Bundeswehr's IT centre (BWI) and the Federal Archives are headquartered here. Koblenz is in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany's wine-producing state. Adult companionship follows Rheinland-Pfalz's regulatory approach.
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Koblenz has a population around 107,000 and occupies the Deutsches Eck (German Corner), where the Mosel flows into the Rhine. The city is over 2,000 years old, founded as Confluentes by the Romans in 9 BC. The Festung Ehrenbreitstein, perched 118 metres above the Rhine on the opposite bank, is one of Europe's largest preserved fortresses and now houses the Landesmuseum Koblenz. A cable car crosses the Rhine to the fortress, installed for the 2011 Bundesgartenschau and made permanent due to popularity.
The Kurfuerstliches Schloss (Electoral Palace), built in the 1780s as the last residential palace of the Holy Roman Empire, sits along the Rhine promenade. Koblenz is the northern gateway to the UNESCO Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65-kilometre stretch of castles, vineyards, and the Lorelei rock. The city was heavily garrisoned by French and then Prussian troops; military architecture shapes the urban landscape. The Bundeswehr's IT centre (BWI) and the Federal Archives are headquartered here. Koblenz is in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany's wine-producing state. Adult companionship follows Rheinland-Pfalz's regulatory approach.
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