Happy Easter! Frohe Ostern!
(seen in Osterspai, Rhein-Lahn District, Rhineland-Palatinate)
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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A group of half-timbered houses in Filsen (on the Rhine, Rhein-Lahn district) dating from the 16th to 18th centuries.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Statue of the Osterspai “Longneck” in Osterspai (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate). ‘Osterspai Longneck’ became a nickname for the inhabitants of Osterspai as early as the beginning of the 19th century.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Liebeneck Castle is a hunting lodge situated above Osterspai in the Rhein-Lahn district (Rhineland-Palatinate). Although the small castle was originally built around 1590 for the Lords of Liebenstein, an architect from Boppard rebuilt it in the Neo-Renaissance style between 1873 and 1875.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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A half-timbered house in Filsen (on the Rhine, Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate) dating from 1768.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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The Baroque pulpit in the Catholic Church of St Martin in Osterspai (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate).
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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The village of Filsen on the Rhine (in the Rhein-Lahn district of Rhineland-Palatinate) has an unusual town hall (known locally as the ‘Wachport’). It was apparently built in 1611 on the site of a former gate in the village’s fortifications.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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The organ in the Catholic Church of St Martin in Osterspai (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate). The organ case dates from 1794/95.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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The vines in Osterspai (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate) are pruned once more just before budbreak.
After phylloxera almost completely destroyed viticulture in the area at the end of the 19th century, the focus gradually shifted towards fruit growing.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Weinstöcke, #vines, #Osterspai, #Rhein_Lahn_Kreis, #Rheinland_Pfalz

Sculptures of saints dating from the 18th century in the Catholic Church of St Martin in Osterspai (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate): St Valentine, St Barbara and St James.
(March 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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