Lahnstein is a verband-free town of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated at the confluence of the Lahn with the Rhine, approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Koblenz. Lahnstein was created in 1969 by the merger of the previously independent towns of Oberlahnstein on the south side of the Lahn and Niederlahnstein on the north side. In 2020, it had a population of 18,030.
Lahnstein and the Lahn Valley
Lahneck Castle c. 1900
Aerial photograph of Lahnstein and the Rhine Valley
Confluence of the Lahn with the Rhine at Niederlahnstein (opposite Stolzenfels of Koblenz with Schloss Stolzenfels)
The Lahn is a 245.6-kilometre-long (152.6 mi), right tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
Source of the Lahn at the Lahnhof
The confluence of the Wetschaft with the Lahn
The Upper Lahn Valley at Bad Laasphe from the Topographia Hassiae of Matthäus Merian, 1655
Heuchelheim Lake