Opening hours 2019

We have updated the opening hours for the 2019 season. Our museum will open its doors on Tuesday, April 02, 2019 and will close them on Sunday, November 03, 2019 for the following winter break. Guided tours are of course also possible by appointment. Please contact us by telephone or email in good time and in advance.

Opening hours for 2019:

From 02.04.2019 until 03.11.2019:
Tues. - Sun from 11:00 - 17:00 Uhr
Last admission: half an hour before closing time

January to April, from mid-November, December
and closed every first working day of the week.

Film portrait about the Blüchermuseum

Film portrait of the Blücher Museum in Kaub am Rhein. Retrospective of one of the interesting chapters of German history: General Blücher's campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte 200 years ago. Meticulously documented in the small at the fine museum in Kaub.
 

 
A Thewes film production 2018
© Roman Thewes

New admission prices

From 01 January 2018 new admission prices apply to the Blüchermuseum in Kaub.

After careful consideration, we have decided to adjust the entrance fees for the Blüchermuseum for the new year 2018. The extensive renovation and extension of the premises played a central role in our decision. Thus, we are now in a position to show our exhibits to the visitor on more than twice the area as before.

However, we have not only corrected the prices upwards. The prices for guided tours have now become cheaper. Children up to the age of 6 are still admitted free of charge.

Admission prices 2018

The programme of the Blüchertage 2017

Simply click on the picture below to download the program of the Blüchertage 2017 as a pdf file.

Blüchertage 2017

Kaub, situated in the most beautiful part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley, is considered one of the most charming small towns. The castles of Pfalzgrafenstein and Gutenfels, a multitude of well-preserved historical towers, fountains, churches and secular buildings form a fascinating backdrop for a historical festival of a special kind.

Visit the event website at: https://www.bluechertage-kaub.de

At Whitsun 2017, the Rhine town of Kaub looks back on the time of the Prussian Field Marshal von Blücher. The Kauber Blücher Days from Saturday 03 to Whit Monday 05 June commemorate the historic crossing of the Rhine by the Prussian-Russian army under General Field Marshal von Blücher over 200 years ago. Military historical presentations, a colourful market, theatre performances and Bengali large-scale lighting take visitors back in time to 1813/14 - against the backdrop of the Pfalzgrafenstein and Gutenfels castles.

The highlight on Sunday is the re-enactment of the Rhine crossing. Under the noise of guns and muskets and impressive powder smoke, infantrymen and grenadiers are transferred across the Rhine to Pfalzgrafenstein to conquer Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in battle.

In the evening Bengali lighting bathes the local scenery in magical colours. The festival area, which corresponds to the townscape of the time 1813/14, offers a wonderful ambience. It invites you to stroll and a rich culinary offer rounds off the festive visit.

Pfalzgrafenstein - The Beauty on the Island

Winners of the RZ prize puzzle took part in exclusive guided tours through the Zollburg Pfalzgrafenstein and the Blüchermuseum.

Text: Ulrike Bletzer - published in the RLZ on 11.07.2016
Photos: Ulrike Bletzer

Picturesque and within easy reach, it towers over the Rhine, Pfalzgrafenstein Castle near Kaub with its defiant whitewashed walls, its playful turrets, windows and embrasures. Somehow the beauty reminds one of a battleship, which is probably mainly due to her elongated shape, which is pointed on the south side. "My colleague sometimes swims across in summer," says castle administrator Heinrich Jung, who tearfully picks up 16 subscribers to the Rhein-Zeitung for an exclusive guided tour. 16 subscribers, who come from the entire Rhein-Lahn district, but also from Koblenz or Frei-Laubersheim near Bad Kreuznach, for example, and who were ahead in the price puzzle of the RZ series "Unsere Burgen' Geschichten & Geheimnisse".

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in Kaub on the Rhine

Logically, they do not do any water sports, but are brought over by Heinz-Dieter "Pit" Kimpel himself on his small passenger ferry. He has been sailing "Bötchen" for eleven years now. tells the 73-year-old, who was originally Rhein!otse, then a partner in the Kauber Fährgemeinschalft and is always available for stories and anecdotes about the river. Over there it continues strictly historically vouched for. At first only the big pentagonal tower in the middle was there, explains Heinrich Jung. It was built in 1326 by the then Count Palatine as well as Roman-German King and Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian with the clear aim of securing customs revenue thanks to its strategic location in the middle of the river.

An idyll in the middle of the Rhine: the Burgpfalzgrafenstein near Kaub. 16 RZ readers now enjoyed an exclusive guided tour.

Jung adds that the tower on Falkenau Island only served to control the passing merchant ships: "The actual customs station was over in Kaub." He describes, both factually and entertainingly, how Wittelsbacher, who was under Pope John XXII's church spell, had the twelve metre high and up to 2.60 metre thick ring wall built around the tower and the battlements between 1340 and 1342. Review how further construction measures gradually helped the castle to its present appearance. The massive ashlar masonry, which since the beginning of the 17th century has reinforced the southern mushrooms of the Zollburg castle, which were once threatened by ice, is one example. Or the second weir underneath the first, which is larded with embrasures for handguns. In 1658, four defensive oriels flanking the walls were added at the beginning of the 18th century, the last major change to date being the baroque tower home.

It was not until 1867 that customs operations were finally discontinued, after which the castle, which today trades under the flag of the state, stood empty for around 100 years until its discovery as a tourist destination, reports the castle administrator, who effortlessly manages to bring the time of that time back to life. "Up to 25 men have stayed here during the day to watch the shipping traffic," he counts. "The castle was a residential building, except for the commander's apartment, but it wasn't." And: "With its rustic flair, the Pfalzgrafenstein embodies in my eyes what makes a real castle. The splendour of the rebuilt castles dates back to the 19th century, much later." Whether it's the powder chamber on the first floor or the gun platform on the second floor.

Whether it is about the aforementioned commander's apartment, in which, according to legend, the child of the Staufer daughter Agnes and the son of the wolf Heinrich des Langen, who was unwanted for political reasons, was born under strict secrecy. Or whether the tour revolves around the dungeon embedded in the ground to "raise payment morale on a voluntary basis" (0-tone Heinrich Jung), in which TV presenter Günther Jauch, historically vouched for, last languished in the context of a SWR programme - Jung garnished his tour with countless details that fill the historical walls with life. And it goes down very well with his listeners, who is surprised.

Guided tour through the Blüchermuseum also inspires

The following guided tour through the Blücher Museum was also very popular. After museum director Dieter Weber and his wife Karin had provided the guests with fine wines, museum employee Ingrid Leonhard transported the group back to the time around the turn of the year 1813/1814, when the Prussian Field Marshal General Blücher and his army crossed the Rhine from Kaub within only five days, in order to further push back the Napoleonic troops, which were weakened in the Battle of Leipzig, and for this purpose set up its headquarters in the inn "Zur Stadt Mannheirn", where the museum is located today. "This salon here breathes European history", lngid Leonhard made clear in the Bel Etage of the late baroque palace with its beautifully restored wallpaper and other exhibits worth seeing. Just as if she had been there in person, she let her audience immerse itself in the events of that time: "80 officers came and went here, all hell broke loose here. At the stroke of twelve on the night of New Year's Eve 1813, it started in icy cold and dense fog: "50,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses and 182 guns set off from Kaub across the Rhine, a logistical masterpiece of the highest secrecy, of which one can only dream today.

Kauber wallpapers arouse international interest

Publication of the findings of the colloquium after the restoration of the
Blüchermuseums are recorded in a book

By RLZ reporter Mira Müller - published in the Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung 16.04.2016

Link to newspaper article as PDF file

Chewing. The former inn "Stadt Mannheim" in Kaub has been home to the Blüchermuseum for more than 100 years. Not only because of Blüchers it has a unique selling point in the region and beyond. Dr. Alexandra Fink, regional conservator at the Landesdenkmalpflege, emphasized at the book presentation of "Wieder salonfähig" that the Blüchermuseum "belongs to the rather underestimated treasures of the World Cultural Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley, mainly because of its hand-painted canvas and paper wallpapers". In the period from 2009 to 2013, this historically highly interesting gem was extensively renovated and restored, as it housed the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, when on New Year's Eve 1813/14 he built the bridge over the Rhine and thus turned it into a modern Europe.

The experience gained by the various trades during the restoration of the Blüchermuseum - from floorboards, windows and staircases to plaster work and the restoration of canvas and paper wallpaper, which had been severely damaged over the years - was to be preserved for posterity. For this reason, Claudia Gerner-Beuerle, a qualified conservator at the Landesdenkmalpflege, and Alexandra Fink decided to organize an interdisciplinary colloquium to conclude the work in April 2013. 80 participants, including monument conservators, art historians, restorers and architects, gathered their knowledge, which made it possible to establish new connections, especially with regard to the production and distribution of hand-painted wallpapers. The results of the colloquium were then summarized in the book "Wieder salonfähig - Handpainted Wallpapers of the 18th Century". Around a third of the book revolves around the findings the restorers gained in Kaub. Dr. Georg Peter Karn is convinced that "the book is not only aimed at experts, but also gives interested laymen an interesting overview".

The book "Wieder salonfähig - hand painted wallpapers of the 18th century" is also available in our webshop: To the webshop

The challenge in Kaub, for example, was that the canvas wallpaper, darkened by the old varnish, had long, towel-like diagonal folds. The plaster underneath had partly detached itself and had bulged out into plaster bags. And also the hand-painted paper wallpapers in the adjoining room had lost their colourfulness due to heavy soiling. So not only had the wallpaper to be removed and professionally cleaned, but also the substrate to be professionally restored. The walls could not simply be plastered again, but had to be restored as well, otherwise the old wallpaper would not have "fitted" later, explained Gerner-Beuerle. To make the wallpapers easier to remove in future, the experts have devised a completely new suspension system. At the top they are screwed to a strip, at the other sides the wallpapers stick with magnetic strips to the wall, which are both in fabric tunnels at the wallpaper and in niches at the wall. Not only the monument preservation staff and Thomas Metz, Director General of the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage, are highly satisfied with the result, but Kaubs Mayor Karl-Heinz Lachmann is also full of praise for the results. The Blüchermuseum still has some plans, another room, which is currently being renovated, is to be added, which will primarily serve museum educational purposes.

Rhine lifeline flying the flag

A documentary about the UNESCO World Heritage Site Middle Rhine Valley in connection with the campaign: "Lifeline Rhine shows flag" by the artist Jutta Reiss.

Art by Jutta Reiss and culinary delights from the gastronomes and winegrowers who live in the Middle Rhine Valley meet on a Rhine island in the middle of the river and present the region's talents for the eye, mind and palate.