Andernach occupies the site of the Roman fort of Autunnacum. In later centuries it was a free imperial city, the possession of which was much disputed. The town walls and gates (14th-15th C.)
Bacharach, an old-established center, is surrounded by its 16th C ring of walls and towers. Above the town is the ruined Burg Stahleck (youth hostel). In the Marktplatz are a number of 16th C half-timbered houses and the Late Romanesque St Peter's Church
The Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady; 1308-31), in the old-world little walled town of Oberwesel, has a fine interior (Baroque organ). On the town walls on the lower side of the town is the Gothic Werner Chapel (ca. 1300).
Above Kaub is Burg Gutenfels (13th C.). In the middle of the Rhine stands the Pfalzgrafenstein (usually abbreviated to Pfalz), a fortress built in 1326 to enforce the collection of tolls on river traffic.
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