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Ehrenbreitstein Fortress 3,000 years of vibrant history Special highlights of the German Federal Horticultural Show 2011TRANSCRIPT
Making history come alive.
GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE
Way up high!
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
3,000 years of
vibrant history.
Highly welcome!You are standing 118 metres (387 feet) above the Rhine, where the new
Fortress Park is being created for the German Federal Horticultural
Show (BUGA). New from 2011: we are opening the historic buildings
for you to get a peek behind the scenes. The rooms and corridors are
being altered and the barriers removed. The walls, paths, courts and
roofs are being restored. And the youth hostel, with 157 beds, is set to
open in December 2010. Come and enjoy the magnifi cent views from
the courtyard of the fortress and experience the most profound
construction project since its creation some 200 years ago.
Enjoy one of the most beautiful views the Rhine
has to offer from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
Panorama gondola lifts take you
from „Deutsches Eck“ to the
fortress in just a few minutes.
Highly exciting!
People have been living on the “Ehrenbreitstein” mountain since the
Stone Age. Celts built their fortifi cations here some 3,000 years ago, and
the Romans also used the location‘s natural defences some 1,000 years
later. The buildings you see today were constructed over the ruins of the
former castle around 200 years ago. Today they are home to cultural
treasures.
The fortress will reopen for visitors in new splendour in 2011. A lift
guides you down through the location’s rich history, and you can also
travel up to the highest tower in the fortress and visit historic roof
gardens from the Stone Age, the ancient world and the Middle Ages.
The new “House of Wine” offers you everything in and around the
oldest drink of humanity.
Highly valuable! Fortress treasure chamber
All generations have kept their valuables safe up high on the
“Ehrenbreitstein” mountain. In medieval times, the electors stored their
treasure here. Indeed, the location is home to the world’s only Roman
dragon’s head guidon. And from 2011 there will be even more to see.
Come and see for yourself!
• Tour of the historic fortress:
5,000 years of history over 500 metres
of corridors and pathways
• Take a lift into history:
archaeological finds from 3,000 years
beneath the Prussian Dome Halls
• Koblenz State Museum:
the largest collection of technology and
photography in the Rhineland-Palatinate
• Archaeological collection:
million year-old finds from the troves of the
Rhineland-Palatinate State Archaeologists
• Roof gardens:
10,000 years of landscape design and culture with
show gardens from the Stone Age, the ancient world,
the Middle Ages and modern times
• “House of Wine”:
wine and technology in the museum
and in the new bistro
• “Ehrenmal des Heeres” memorial:
the central memorial for the German army soldiers
who fell in the two world wars
• Info on the 2011 German Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA):
Rhineland-Palatinate state presentation at the
BUGA show in the “Lange Linie” casemate building
and in the former moat, exhibitions on the works
of Peter Josef Lenné and on 10,000 years of burial
culture, gardens of the Middle Rhine region in
the former moat, “Haus der keramischen Welten”
ceramics exhibition in the “Ravelin” building
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Highly vibrant! Fortress from 2011
The face of the fortress will be changed with the 2011 German Federal
Horticultural Show (BUGA) from 15 April to 16 October 2011.
A fortress steeped in history is set to become the centre for vibrant
culture on the Middle Rhine, with park grounds, museums, exhibitions,
concerts, guided tours and festivals pointing the way to the future.
Please come and visit us again. We hope to see you soon.
Special highlights of the German Federal Horticultural Show 2011
1 Restaurant Ferrari
2 Dome Halls
3 Exhibition of the Cultural Heritage
Office for the Rhineland-Palatinate
4 Information board and meeting point
5 Onion garden
6 Fortress church
7 “Haus der keramischen Welten”
ceramics exhibition
8 Themed gardens – treasures of the region
Standing proud above the Rhine and Mosel –
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress is a real experience.
9 Exhibitions:
• 10,000 years of burial culture
• Peter Joseph Lenné in Rhineland
• UNESCO World Heritage Sites
10 Entrance
11 Rhineland-Palatinate stage
12 Historic roof gardens
13 “Lange Linie” casemate building
14 “Ungenannt” (unnamed) tower
Making history come alive.
GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE
Way up high!
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
3,000 years of
vibrant history.
Making history come alive.
GENERALDIREKTION KULTURELLES ERBE
Highly
up to date!
All the latest information
on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
can be found at:
www.diefestungehrenbreitstein.de
www.buga2011.de
Facebook: “Festung Ehrenbreitstein”
Twitter: “Festung Koblenz”
Cultural Heritage Offi ce for the Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE)
Castles, palaces, antiquities
Tel. +49 (0)261/6675-4000 • E-mail: [email protected]
Picture credit: GDKE, Plan Context Landschaftsarchitektur
Von der Europäischen Union
aus dem Europäischen Fonds für
regionale Entwicklung und vom
Land Rheinland-Pfalz kofi nanziert.
Highly welcome!You are standing 118 metres (387 feet) above the Rhine, where the new
Fortress Park is being created for the German Federal Horticultural
Show (BUGA). New from 2011: we are opening the historic buildings
for you to get a peek behind the scenes. The rooms and corridors are
being altered and the barriers removed. The walls, paths, courts and
roofs are being restored. And the youth hostel, with 157 beds, is set to
open in December 2010. Come and enjoy the magnifi cent views from
the courtyard of the fortress and experience the most profound
construction project since its creation some 200 years ago.
Enjoy one of the most beautiful views the Rhine
has to offer from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.
Panorama gondola lifts take you
from „Deutsches Eck“ to the
fortress in just a few minutes.