the 18th century. Moselstraße 2 – former Amtshaus, solid building, partly with twinned windows, 17th/18th century (?). Moselstraße 3/4 – no. 3: plastered building, possibly essentially late mediaeval, made over in Baroque, 18th century; no. 4: building with mansard roof, from the 18th century. Schloßstraße – wayside chapel, open chapel, 17th century, Baroque stone Madonna. Schloßstraße 37 – three-floor quarrystone building, 18th century. Schloßstraße 38 – quarrystone building, 19th century. At Schloßstraße 56 – Classicist door leaf, earlier half of the 19th century. At Weingasse 10 – back wall part of wall-gable combination, Gothic windows, possibly essentially 15th/16th century. Weingasse 12 – former synagogue, three-floor quarrystone building, 18th/19th century. Weingasse 13 – three-floor building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame, 18th/19th century. Jewish graveyard, on the south ridge of the castle mountain above the Moselle – opened in the 17th century, 104 stele-type gravestones. Chapel, above the castle near the Jewish graveyard – aisleless church, 1652, before the chapel two crosses, 18th/19th century and 1942 respectively; in the vineyard wall two sandstone reliefs. Beilstein in film The municipality has been the setting in a number of German films, such as the 1958 film version of Der Schinderhannes, about the well known outlaw starring Curd Jürgens, Nazi filmmaker Carl Froelich’s 1936 work Wenn wir alle Engel wären ("If We Were All Angels") starring Heinz Rühmann and the 1938 film Das Verlegenheitskind starring Ida Wüst and Paul Klinger. Famous people Honorary citizens Journalist and author Walter Henkels (1906–1987) was awarded honorary citizenship on 4 September 1981. Further reading Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: Beilstein an der Mosel. Rheinisches Kunststättenheft, 1. Auflage 1980, Heft 242 u. 2. veränderte Auflage 1987, Heft 242. Schaefer, Johann Matthias (Hrsg.): Beitrag zur Lokal-Geschichte Beilstein's a/M. oder "Oft hat ein kleines Dorf eine nicht gerade alltägliche Geschichte". Cochem, ca. 1900 Gallery See also County of Beilstein References External links Beilstein local history and transport club Pictures of Beilstein, the “Sleeping Beauty of the Moselle” Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate Cochem-Zell