Seminars and company events
Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald hosts seminars, conferences, training days and board meetings for groups of 10 to 120 people, as well as family celebrations. The four-star conference and wellness hotel occupies a former hunting lodge in the Niederwald forest above Rüdesheim am Rhein, in the Rheingau wine region. All seven meeting rooms have daylight, current lighting and media technology, and free Wi-Fi runs through the hotel and the meeting areas on a fiber connection installed in February 2024.
The hotel sells day packages for full days, half days and short sessions of up to three hours. The full-day package includes a morning coffee break, a lunch buffet or a three-course menu for small groups, coffee and cake in the afternoon, and water and coffee in the room throughout. Each package comes with a screen, a flipchart, a pinboard and a facilitation kit, so a group arrives to a room that is ready to use.
Rooms and capacities
The largest room, Taunusblick, measures 115 square meters and seats 120 in theater style, 80 in parliament style and 50 in a U-shape or boardroom layout. The Grüner Salon, 95 square meters, takes 95 in theater style, 65 in parliament style and 41 around a U-shape; it is the room where the Niederwald Conference met in 1948. Bellevue (77 m²) seats 40 in rows, Maximilian (60 m²) 35, the Galerie (48 m²) 40 and Das Jagdzimmer (47 m²) 35. The Kleines Jagdzimmer, 22 square meters, suits a board meeting of 10. Several rooms also host standing receptions of 50 guests, and up to 100 in the Grüner Salon.
Accommodation
The hotel has bedrooms for participants, including standard double rooms, along with wellness facilities for the evening. The number of rooms is not given on the website, so a room block should be requested together with the meeting rooms.
Catering
The restaurant serves regional and creative cooking, with an indoor dining room and a panoramic terrace over the Rheingau. Lunches and breaks in the meeting packages come from the hotel kitchen.
History and setting
The estate began as a fief farm of Burg Ehrenfels near the Binger Loch. In 1705 it passed to the Counts of Ostein, and around 1764 Maximilian von Ostein built the main house as a hunting lodge. From 1835 the Dukes of Nassau laid out the Niederwald as a landscaped forest, today part of the Rheingau-Untertaunus nature park. The lodge later came under Prussia, served as a family holiday hotel, as a military hospital during the Second World War and as a leisure home for American officers. In 1948 the Grüner Salon hosted the meeting of Konrad Adenauer and the state premiers that helped prepare Germany's Basic Law. From the 1960s the State of Hesse turned the site into a modern hotel.
Getting there
The address is Jagdschloss Niederwald 1, 65385 Rüdesheim am Rhein. Rüdesheim station lies on the railway along the Rhine valley, and Frankfurt Airport is about an hour away by car.
