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Offers for tourist groups

Königstein Fortress - an ideal destination

for coach companies, tour operators, associations, schools, and companies

Find all relevant information for planning your fortress visit on this page.

Your program can be tailored to individual needs: Walk around the fortress yourself with the audio guide, or go on a guided tour, which even gives you access to otherwise closed rooms.

A visit to our exhibitions gives you an insight into the multifaceted fortress history.

The manifold special events – such as organ concerts at the Garrison Church, military historic spectacles, or even our historical romantic Christmas Market – are included in the admission fee and offer your tour group a very special additional experience.

Also use the diverse culinary offers at Königstein Fortress. Offers range from an individual visit to the self-service restaurant to a "culinary time travel" at our event restaurant “In the Casemates”.

We will be delighted to put together a special group offer for your fortress visit.

Do get in touch!

Ticket fees for groups

Ticket fees | 01. April - 31. October 2023
including the use of the lift and admission to all exhibitions

 

Groups 15 people and more p.p

12 €

Groups school students up to the age of 16, 15 people and more p.p.

5 €

Ticket fees | 01. November 2023 - 31. March 2024
including the use of the lift and admission to all exhibitions

 

Groups 15 people and more p.p.:

11 €

Groups school students up to the age of 16, 15 people and more p.p.:

5 €

Ticket fees | 2./3./9./10./16./17./23. December 2023
including the use of the lift and admission to all exhibitions

 

Groups 15 people and more p.p.

12 €

We recommend the booking of

Parking charge

coaches:

10 €

minibuses:

8 €

We accept the following types of cards:

Opening hours

Opening hours | 29 March - 31 October 2024

 

daily without a day off
last admission: 1 hour before closing time

9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Service offers

 

Information office

10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.

Shop /  Audio guide rental

9 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.

Restaurant "Officers mess"

11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Historic bar "Ye Olde Musqueteer"

11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Beer garden "Napoleon's Kitchen

in fine weather
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Opening hours | 1 November 2023 - 28 March 2024

 

open daily
last admission: 1 hour before closing time

9 a.m - 5 p.m.

advent weekends

9 a.m. - 7 p.m.

24th December

closed

1st January

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

31st December

9 a.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Service offers

 

Information office

9 a.m. - 4.30 p.m

Shop / Audio guide rental

9 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.

Historic bar "Ye Olde Musqueteer"

Monday - Friday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday / Sunday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Restaurant Officer's mess

closed

Beer garden "Napoleon's Kitchen

closed

Audioguide

Free to download or on-site rental for a fee

Audioguide for Adults

For individual tours of the fortress complex and the exhibition "In lapide regis - On the King's Stone" we recommend the Königstein Fortress audio guide.

Together with the audio device, guests are given a fortress map, so that they can plan their own visit. In it, the 14 most important of around 60 locations are indicated – however there is no specified tour.

New offer: Audioguide online

The audio guide is now also available online as a web app in the following languages:

  • German
  • English
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Russian

The download is free of charge and possible without app installation - simply to call up in the browser of mobile devices via this link:

The rental of audio guide devices on site is still possible.

Rental fee: 2 €:

Languages available for on-site rental

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Czech

Place of issue/return:

Shop (Old barracks)

Latest return of audio guides

April - October: 5:30 p.m.
November - March: 4:30 p.m.

Good to know: All audio guides are disinfected after they are returned.

Audioguide for children

For visits to the fortress with children's groups, we recommend using the children's audio guides. Children are invited to go on a discovery tour with Max, Marie, and Fortress Commander Alfred von Oer. As a time traveler from the year 1900, he has many exciting stories to tell about what life was like on the fortress in the past. The narrations are accompanied by sounds and music. For example, in the state prison, you can hear the clinking of chains and the conversations of the prisoners.

  • The children's audio guide is also available free of charge online.

Audioguide rental in the Shop

Audio guides for children's groups are priced at 2 euros per person.

Audio sample

Festung Königstein gGmbH
01824 Königstein

Phone: +49 (0)35021 64 607
info@festung-koenigstein.de

Opening hours

April - October 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
November - March 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Last admission 1 hour before closing time