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Municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Alfter

Alfter is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Alfter
Alfter · Michielverbeek
The place

Alfter is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 6 km west of Bonn.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alfter

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Schloss Alfter

    Alfter Castle is a castle in Alfter, Germany.

    400 m · castle in Alfter, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Herrenhaus Buchholz

    Buchholz Manor is manor house and event venue in Alfter, Germany. Mathias Thomé used to run the Buccholz Forest Restaurant on the site.

    1.3 km · building in Alfter, Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alfter

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 17 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 64 km · Maastricht Aachen (MST), 89 km
Stations
Roisdorf station, 2 km
  • Düsseldorf → Alfter
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €7–10
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Alfter
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Dortmund → Alfter
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €12–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alfter

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alfter. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy boat, you can reach Königswinter with the tourist boats on the Rhine and by ferry from Bonn Mehlem, but this is not useful only if you live in Bonn.

From Wikivoyage: Königswinter, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    315 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    527 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    585 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    700 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    762 km

If you know how people move in Alfter – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alfter

Alfter is 6 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bornheimtown in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany2.6 km
  • Hardtbergcity district of Bonn, Germany4 km