Traben-Trarbach, Germany Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

TRABEN-TRARBACH is 24km downstream from Bernkastel-Kues, though only a fraction of that distance away as the crow flies. Traben, on the northern bank, was once a prime strategic site, as the two ruined fortesses above the town testify. Schloss Grevenburg , now reduced to a couple of walls, was blown up in 1697 in accordance with the terms of a recently signed peace treaty. In 1734 Mont Royal , built just 44 years previously by Louis XIV, suffered similar treatment, leaving the citizens free to get on with more peaceful pursuits like building half-timbered houses. Most of these are actually in Trarbach on the … more »