For the first time, the monograph opens up personal testimonies for the connections between travel behavior and writing practices on the Rhine around 1800. With the help of interdisciplinary approaches from emotion research, sensory research, historical spatial research and environmental history, the complexity of the written travel experiences and the representation of the Rhine Romanticism are illustrated. The ways of acting and thinking of the actors are taken into account, who designed a picture of the Rhine and of themselves and integrated their travel descriptions into their own biographies. On the basis of these personal stories, Romanticism can be understood and experienced in its entirety and shows that the Rhine was constructed into a romantic place of longing by transforming it into a mythological and national-political atmosphere, as a landscape of remembrance and its own semantics and program.