Ruins of Ehrenfels Castle
Around the year 1220, the Archbishop of Mainz ordered the construction of a castle on the site of an earlier fortress and used the imposing building to raise lucrative transit tolls. Its strategically important position led to the castle being aggressively fought over during the Thirty Years’ War before being finally destroyed by fire in 1689. The ruins of Ehrenfels Castle are idyllically situated in the midst of the vineyards between Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen.