This hotel occupies part of Burg Schönburg, a castle on a wooded hilltop directly above Oberwesel in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It has 31 individually furnished rooms and suites inside the historic castle buildings, called Kemenaten and Suiten on its own site. The shared spaces include a fireplace room, a library and a tower that once served as the castle's prison.
Outside there are Rhine-facing terraces, an inner castle courtyard and a walled garden kept for hotel guests only, reached past a row of stone figures known as the Seven Maidens. The garden holds a tree house, a round building called the Rondavel, and views over the Engehöller valley, the old town of Oberwesel and the river.
The hotel runs two dining rooms under the castle roof: the Schönburger Weinstuben, a wine tavern, and Zum Mundschenk, an à la carte restaurant with its own bistro. A separate tower museum in a double-portcullis gatehouse covers more than 700 years of the castle's history, including a (currently out of order) working model of a siege catapult, and an observation platform reached by 122 steps with a view down the valley. Dogs and other animals are not allowed anywhere on the property.
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