Top 5 Castles in Rheinaue Zons-Rheinfeld Und Altrheinschlinge Zons

The Rhine Tower building is directly adjacent to the Customs House and the Chapel of the Holy Trinity. The mighty Rhine Tower also served as a customs tower. Customs duties were collected and administered there and in the adjacent Customs House.

The city fortifications of the former Electorate of Cologne customs fortress of Zons, planned by Archbishop Friedrich von Saarwerden between 1373 and 1408, are almost completely preserved with the surrounding city wall, the corner towers and guardhouses as well as the ditches, ramparts and the forecourt. The city wall with the watchtowers was built as a regular rectangular structure made of columnar basalt, trachyte, tuff and brick. The four corner towers include the six-storey, almost 26m high Rhine Tower, completed in 1388, with the remains of the gate system of the former Rhine Gate, which was also used as a customs tower for collecting the Rhine toll. The round Krötschen Tower and the Mill Tower form the western corner towers of the city fortifications, the former Field Gate in between, the second main gate of the city fortifications, was demolished between 1833 and 1842. The mill tower shows the still completely preserved mill technology with the grinding mechanism of the former mill. In front of the south wall is the moat wall with the south-east corner round tower, the "icebreaker". The state castle, built by Archbishop Friedrich von Saarwerden from 1373 onwards when the entire city complex was built, served to secure customs revenues for over four centuries. Columnar basalt, trachyte, tuff and brick were used for the almost square complex with the city wall in the south and east and the moat in front in the north and west. The most striking and also oldest building in the stronghold is the mighty gate tower, which was the only access to the inner courtyard in the Middle Ages. The double gate system of the south gate was the only gate leading directly into the outer bailey, which was bordered by high walls on the sides facing the city. The Juddeturm, equipped with loopholes and machicolations, in the basement of which is the windowless castle dungeon, is the northwestern fortification tower of the outer bailey. Source: swd-dormagen.de/fileadmin/civserv/pdf-felder/fachbereich_6/Denkmalschutz-Rundgang/Internetversion_opti.pdf

Gate tower of Friedestrom Castle in Zons. Friedestrom Castle, which was often called Friedestrom Palace in the past, is a former Electorate of Cologne state castle in the Dormagen district of Zons. The entire old town of Zons with its around 125 houses - which is well worth seeing - is located within the city walls of the heavily fortified fortress. The castle, which lies directly on the flat left bank of the Rhine, was originally built as a moated castle. Today the moat has been drained. The complex, secured with a city wall and various towers, served, among other things, to secure the Rhine toll collected in Zons, which is why it is also counted as a type of toll castle. The castle was also intended to secure the Electorate of Cologne territory against the counts and later dukes of Berg. It was built in the second half of the 14th century by Archbishop Friedrich III of Saarwerden. The castle had its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries. From the 17th century onwards, its gradual decline began, which was accelerated by damage during the Thirty Years' War. During the Thirty Years' War, the complex fell into the hands of French troops who occupied the areas to the left of the Rhine. In 1803, the castle was sold at auction and was subsequently used as a manor. In 1972, the then Neuss district took over the castle and set up a cultural centre there. Today, the castle houses a museum, the archives of the Neuss district and the city of Dormagen, an open-air stage and other rooms for events. Source: https://fotowalther.de/zollfeste-zons-burg-friedestrom/

"The town of Zons, formerly known as Feste Zons, has an almost completely preserved city wall. The construction of the city wall and the Friedestrom Castle in its southeast corner took place in the second half of the 14th century, after the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich III Rheinzoll had moved from Neuss to Zons. " http://www.burgenwelt.org/deutschland/zons/object.php

Super beautiful historic town center.

Zons can only be recommended.

Entrance into the "past". Pretty houses, dreamy streets. Pure romance!

On August 11, 1860, at the request of the head of the Franciscan monastery, the Zons town council approved the construction of the chapel "Maria von den Engeln" on the bottom of the monastery. The chapel was built and completed this year.