Rhens Travel Guide

The Rheintor is the City gate I walked through to access the river Rhine.
Quite a nice looking gate, as it has a half-timber red & white building erected on the gate, which is affectionately called "wobble castle." The Custom House tower, "Rheintor," is in the recessed wall, three stories high and with a pointed arch and ashlar passage..

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Rhen's is not a big Village, so it is real easy to walk around the old area.
The village is surrounded by some great Town Wall's and impressive gates, some very old Churches and what I liked best of all, was the half-timbered Houses.
These were old, all shapes, all size's, some looked ready to fall over, other's had nice painting's, some had religious statue's, altogether, it was a favorite little Village of mine!
I walked along the River front and found a large Hotel and thought how nice it would be to stay there, and watch the River traffic!

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The Market Place is where the old Town Hall is located, and also many picturesque half-timbered building's, some being used as outdoor Cafe's.
I thought some of these were beautifully decorated, as you will see in the photo.
In the square is a nice bronze statue of the Ox at the Ox Well.

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The "Old Town Hall," I don't know what you think when you see the photo, but I thought it "cute," if a building can be "cute!!"

This hickledy-pickledy, half-timbered building dates from the 15th century.
In 1998 the building was completely renovated. I love the Timber braces, the different design's and the way it lean's like it may fall over one Day!
In the box under the arched door latch, is a carved coat of arms with the year 1709 (the Year of the gable structures.) A Clock is situated high above the gable slated roof.

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The village of Rhens had a city wall built around it between 1396-1418 in the form of a pentagon. The Wall included five gates and six towers in the 8 metre high Wall.

Three Gate's have been preserved, including the Kirchtor in 2004.
Between Kirchtor and sniper tower is a well-preserved piece of the city wall. Through the Gate-way, I looked directly to the Old Town Hall.

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As we were driving to Koblenz, we passed through the small village of Spay. Here, is the Romanesque parish church of St. Lambert from 1897. Inside the church are the remains of frescoes from the time of construction, valuable stained glass windows and sculptures from the late Middle Ages.

Make sure you are ready for a great photo opportunity when you enter the Village, for there is the Church & spire, and framing the Church is Marksburg Castle which is located on the other side of the River Rhine!