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Loreley viewpoint

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Loreley viewpoint

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Loreley viewpoint

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UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

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Location: Sankt Goar, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. View of the Loreley Rock – Seven Virgins Viewpoint loop from Niederburg

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2. View of Burg Katz – View of the Loreley Rock loop from St. Goar

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3. View of the Loreley Rock – View of Burg Katz loop from Urbar

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Michi1001

February 21, 2024

On this route above St. Goar you have several fantastic views of Germany's most famous rocks and the romantic Middle Rhine Valley. Benches and sky loungers make this experience perfect.

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September 10, 2021

Germany's most famous rock

The Loreley is one of the most famous places in Germany. Viewed unemotionally, it is an almost vertical rock face that towers 132 meters above the Rhine and ends in an almost flat summit. Due to its imposing size, striking shape and an extraordinary echo that was perceptible in earlier times, the Loreley has always received special attention. For generations, visitors from all over the world have traveled to the monument to discover its special features and enjoy the spectacular Rhine panorama. Countless artists found inspiration for their works here. No matter which direction you look at the Loreley from - the rock is a phenomenon: this place combines scenic beauty and myth, eventful history and an extraordinary diversity of nature. Wolfgang Oertel von Horn clearly expressed the special fascination in 1881 in his description - The Rhine, history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries and cities in two sentences: The Lorelay ... rises to a proud height, and her foot rests deep beneath the surface of the Rhine, which has its deepest point here. Who, who has traveled along the beautiful banks of the Rhine, does not have an indelible memory of it? Source: Text information board

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September 10, 2021

Old and wrinkled

The steep cliffs in the narrowest section of the Rhine Valley open up a view of the history of our landscape. They tell of the events of the past millions of years and bear witness to the unimaginable forces that shaped their current appearance. The Loreley owes its special shape to geological development, without which the myth would never have emerged. The history of the Loreley began 400 million years ago. At that time, in the Devonian, the area that is now the Middle Rhine was located near the South Pole in a strait between two continents. Material was deposited on their soil over thousands of years, which the rivers had washed in from continents that were still devoid of vegetation. Under the weight of the subsequent hundreds of meters thick sediments, the rocks that make up the rocks today emerged: slate and sandstone. In the subsequent Carboniferous epoch, the continents moved towards each other due to shifts in the earth's crust and collided. As a result, the ocean space in between was pushed together and folded, and the former seabed was raised into a mountain range around 320 million years ago. The gentle landscape of the plateau above the rocks bears witness to the time when, a few million years ago, in the late Tertiary period, the Rhine flowed northwards as a slow, meandering stream in a wide valley. The Loreley plateau was formed about a million years ago during the first great ice age when the Rhine created a flat bed here. The steep rocky slope is the result of the most recent events in earth's history: driven by the forces in the hot interior of the earth, the Rhenish Slate Mountains are being lifted up. This forces the river to dig deeper and deeper into the rock. In doing so, he changes direction, taking advantage of weak areas in the earth's crust. This created the multitude of loops, the narrowest of which carved the Loreley rock out of the rock over the course of almost a million years. Source: Text information board

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Distance 3.28 km

Uphill 110 m

Downhill 130 m

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Location: Sankt Goar, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Loreley viewpoint

1. View of the Loreley Rock – Seven Virgins Viewpoint loop from Niederburg

2. View of Burg Katz – View of the Loreley Rock loop from St. Goar

3. View of the Loreley Rock – View of Burg Katz loop from Urbar

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