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Cochem on the Mosel
This town of 7000 inhabitants, with its twisting narrow streets and medieval
character offers numerous attractions for tourists. Among them are the Ender
gate, the Balduin gate, the Capuchin cloister, the market-square, the city
hall, the Bock fountain, as well as a remarkable series of stairways. Straight
up above the town and the Mosel, lies the Reichsburg. Built around the year
1000, as a castle of the count palatine. It was destroyed by the troops of the
French king, Louis XIV. 130 years ago, an industrialist from Berlin bought the
ruins and had it rebuilt in the style of the original period in which it was
built. His impressive collection of renaissance art is on display there.
The nearby Pinnerberg is also worth a visit (there is a chair lift), with
its panorama of the Mosel valley over to the Hunsrück. Another site with
castle ruins is the Winneburg in the Enderbach valley.
Photo: The historical market place of Cochem with impressive medieval
half-timbered houses, the baroque town hall from 1739, the church tower of
St. Martin from 1456, which was possibly part of the town fortification in the
Middle Ages with its gate at ground level, as well as St. Martin's Fountain
with a sculpture of St. Martin (first mentioned in 1459).
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