With the barge from Bonn
Siebengebirge and Petersberg were regular excursion destinations for Beethoven. The French composer Hector Berlioz reported on this in 1845. When he visited Bonn's first Beethoven Festival to unveil the monument on Münsterplatz (Station 8), Berlioz stayed in Königswinter. There he met several old people who claimed to have "known Beethoven in his youth". He often came over "in a barge" to "dream and work".
Before the construction of the large hotel in 1892, the summit of the Petersberg could only be reached from Königswinter and Dollendorf via one of the four steep processional paths. The baroque chapel built in 1763 at the request of the abbot of the nearby Heisterbach monastery (Station 20)
St. Peter invited visitors to linger in devotion. The sweeping view over the Rhine plain will have fascinated pilgrims and hikers alike - and certainly Beethoven too.
