The Rhine reveals its full splendor on the 65-kilometre stretch of river between Rüdesheim and Koblenz. Romantic writers such as Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine and Clemens von Brentano were inspired by the sight to write rapturous works. The river flows along steep rock faces past the much-sung about Loreley Rock. The shallows and rocks along this section of the Rhine were the undoing of many a Rhine boatman in earlier times. This is how the myth of the Loreley was created. And the striking ruins of former stately castles keep drawing the eye - nowhere else in the world are there as many in one place as here.
At the southern beginning of the “Upper Middle Rhine Valley” World Heritage Site, directly on the banks of the Rhine, lies the harbor park, designed as a public park on a former Rhine island in the style of an English landscape park. Its location at the busy landing stages for shipping, the diversity of the more than 40 tree species there and the view of the wide Rhine make it a special place.
