Bacharach - Culture and Sightseeing

Culture and Sightseeing

  • Timber-frame houses, which can be found throughout the town. A whole row of them borders Bacharach along with the town wall along the Rhine.
  • Altes Haus (“Old House”), mediaeval timber-frame house from 1368
  • Haus Utsch from 1585; in its time, Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch, the Jäger aus Kurpfalz (“Hunter from the Electorate of the Palatinate” – a character in a well known song) lived there.
  • Old postal station
  • Old marketplace
  • Electorate of the Palatinate Amt wine cellar
  • Former Electorate of the Palatinate mint
  • Toll yard with Saint Nicholas’s Catholic Church
  • Saint Peter’s Evangelical Church
  • Ruin of the Gothic Wernerkapelle
  • Town wall ringing Bacharach, parts of which may be visited
  • Town wall towers: Diebesturm (“Thief’s Tower”, remnants), Zehnt-turm (“Tithe Tower”), Spitzenturm (“Pointed Tower”, remnants), Postenturm (“Post Tower”), Holztor (“Wooden Gate”, also called Steeger Tor), Liebesturm (“Love Tower”), Halbturm (“Half Tower”, remnants), Kühlbergturm (“Kühlberg Tower”, remnants), Sonnenturm (“Sun Tower”, remnants), Hutturm (“Hat Tower”), Zollturm (no longer existing), Kranentor, Markttor (“Market Gate”), Münztor (“Mint Gate”), Winandturm (“Winand’s Tower”). The town fortifications are among the best preserved in Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • Island in the Rhine, the Bacharacher Werth.
  • Stahleck Castle (Burg Stahleck)
  • Remnants of a Roman road up from Stahleck Castle
  • Stahlberg Castle (Burg Stahlberg) above Bacharach-Steeg
  • Blücher monument stone at the Rhine ferry

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