Abstract: The invention relates to a washing apparatus, especially to an apparatus for rinsing of glass bottles before first filling.The bottles to be rinsed are fed to the apparatus by means of a conveyor installation. The incoming bottles are picked up by a receiving means including a conveyor, the runway of which extending in a vertical plane. The bottles are transferred to a transportation device whereby the bottles are pivoted about 180 degrees. The transportation device includes a conveyor advancing said bottles to a rinsing station having a rinsing device and to a draining station. A removing device pick-up the clean bottles from the transportation device and transfers the bottles to a further conveying installation for discharging the bottles from the apparatus. During transferring the bottles are pivoted about 180 degrees such that upright bottles ready for filling are outputted from the apparatus.