{"id":22873,"date":"2023-09-05T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=22873"},"modified":"2023-08-27T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T10:15:11","slug":"excursion-to-sayn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/rhineland-palatinate\/upper-middle-rhine-valley\/excursion-to-sayn\/","title":{"rendered":"An excursion to Sayn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sayn is a district of Bensdorf and is located just under 12 kilometers from Koblenz. You should definitely plan a day trip to Sayn during a visit to the Romantic Rhine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\"Schloss<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sayn Castle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sayn Castle, the former ancestral seat of the Counts of Sayn, stands at the foot of the castle hill of the now ruined Sayn Castle. In the 14th century, a medieval castle manor was initially built there for the Lords of Reiffenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Historische<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, I find the family history of the noble family very complicated, but Sayn becomes Sayn-Wittgenstein, Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn,\u2026 In 1753 the house fell by marriage to Baron Boos von Waldeck, who had it rebuilt into a baroque manor house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn returned from Russia to the family’s old home in 1848 with his Russian wife, Princess Leonilla Barjatinsky. He bought the estate from Count Clemens Boos von Waldeck, then District Administrator of Koblenz, and commissioned a French architect to convert the house into a neo-Gothic palace. Around 1860, a chapel was built at the east end, modeled on the Sainte-Chapelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Schloss<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During the Second World War, the castle was so badly damaged that it was uninhabitable. It fell into disrepair and only the chapel and the crypt underneath, which was the burial place of the Sayn princely house, remained almost undamaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1990s, Alexander Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, the current lord of the castle, planned the reconstruction. Since 2000 the castle shines again in its old splendor in Sayn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"F\u00fcrstenpaar<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Castle Museum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A good 1000 m\u00b2 had become available after the Rhenish Iron Art Casting Museum moved out of Sayn Castle. Enough space to create the New Museum in Sayn Castle. Princess Gabriela and Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn show a successful exhibition on the family history in the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we arrived at the castle, the Princess and the Prince welcomed us to tell us the history of the house personally. Afterwards, the Princess guided us through the exhibition and admittedly, that made the visit really unique. If you go through the exhibition alone or with the “DigiWalk” app, you can learn a lot, but on this tour, the Princess told us a lot that can’t be read about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n