Ehrenbreitstein

American  

[ey-ruhn-brahyt-shtahyn] / ˌeɪ rənˈbraɪt ʃtaɪn /

noun

1. a fortress in Coblenz, Germany, built in the 12th century.

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Example Sentences

Turner’s “Ehrenbreitstein,” a view of a hilltop fortress in Germany inspired by a passage in Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.”

From New York Times

The Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, which is properly the Citadel of Coblentz, stands on the other Side of the Rhine.

From Project Gutenberg

Junghuhn was a man fit for any emergency, as he had already shown on the banks of his native Rhine, when the very cells of Ehrenbreitstein, with which a chivalric adventure had made him acquainted in his youth, had for once been found too narrow to hold him.

From Project Gutenberg

The object of his choice was a young widow, Maria Magdalena, daughter of the head cook at the castle of Ehrenbreitstein.

From Project Gutenberg

And I thought of the airs of bargemen, Who tunefully recline, As they float by Ehrenbreitstein, In the twilight of the Rhine.

From Project Gutenberg