The main house with its Art Nouveau gable
The Rhine terrace beneath a wisteria some 200 years old
The guest house, right next to the main house
A house from 1752, just beginning a new chapter.
Our house is old, properly old. Wine has been grown here, and travellers welcomed, since 1752: first the towpath haulers and Rhine voyagers, today walkers, wine lovers and anyone who wants the river outside their window.
Since 1 July 2026, Wiebke and Robin have been running the hotel. Here you can find out where the house comes from, who looks after you today and what is changing right now.
Since 1752HistoryFrom winegrowing to horse-changing station for the towpath haulers to Art Nouveau hotel.History: Discover more
Since July 2026Hosts & TeamWiebke, Robin and the people who look after you every day.Hosts & Team: Discover more
Poets, painters, musiciansThe Rhine as MuseThose who stopped here wrote and painted, from Goethe to Turner.The Rhine as Muse: Discover more
Main house and guest house
Hotel Schön is the main house and, right beside it, the guest house, wall to wall on the Rheinuferstraße. Both look out over the river, and between them they have 23 rooms.
Since 1752
This is where it all began. Over the centuries the house has been renewed time and again, and parts of it still date from 1752. Today it wears a sweeping Art Nouveau gable and ceilings of up to 3.5 metres. Here you will find the suites, the deluxe rooms with balcony and the large rooms. A lift takes you to every floor.
On the ground floor we welcome you, you breakfast behind large windows onto the terrace, and the leaded glass window with the towpath haulers tells of days gone by.
Right next door
A couple of steps from the main house, with flower boxes on the balconies. Here are our double rooms with their own balcony and the triple rooms: simple, bright and all with a view of the Rhine. There is no lift here, only stairs.
To the roomsOutside the door
Beneath the old wisteria you sit in the front row by the river, and under the awnings when it rains. With it, wine from Weinhaus Karl Schön, the family's wine house, served in a carafe, and cake from our confectioner Hans Kellner.
Restaurant & Terrace
In the cellar beneath the house
The Weinhaus remains in the Schön family. Riesling from the Rüdesheim vineyards and Spätburgunder from the Assmannshäuser Höllenberg are still made here in the cellar to this day, and the 2026 harvest is safely in. With us, you drink the wines by the carafe on the terrace.
We are only just beginning.
We have been your hosts here since July 2026. We are changing the house step by step: historic, but not historicising, as our interior designer Evi Märklstetter puts it. Here we tell you what is happening.
Our first evening in the house, and the Rhine joined the celebration: for “Rhein in Flammen” (Rhine in Flames), fireworks lit up the sky above the river. We could not have wished for a finer welcome.
We have revived the evening menu and extended our opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 2 pm, with hearty classics in the evening from 6 to 9 pm.
See the menu
Weinhaus Karl Schön has brought the grapes in from the steep vineyards. Now the young wines are at work in the cellar beneath the house.
Visit the WeinhausChristmas time with our event weekends in Advent and at New Year: Christmas market, Feuerzangenbowle, a goose dinner, and to see in the New Year, music, wines from Weinhaus Schön and a small fireworks display by the river.
The Advent weekendsUntil 26 November and during the winter break from 2 January to 19 March we use the time for small renovations around the house: gently, in the dining room and in some of the rooms. So that next year you find an even more beautiful house on the Rhine. On the Advent weekends, between Christmas and New Year and from 20 March we are here for you.
Our winter dates
Come and see us, for a glass, a night or a long weekend on the Rhine.
Once a season we write to you from the river: news from the house, our packages and the loveliest dates in the Rheingau.
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