Alpenrod
Alpenrod is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Alpenrod is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The Gräbersberg on the Gemarkung Alpenrod – a rural area attached to the municipality – is the highest point in the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. On the Gräbersberg stands an observation tower with a viewing platform 30 m high and open to the public.
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Worth seeing in and around Alpenrod
One place 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.
- 01Gräbersberg
The Gräbersberg, at 513.1 m above sea level, the highest point in the western Westerwald, a low mountain range in central Germany whose western region extends from the Nister river in the east to the Rhine in the west. On the slopes of the Gräbersberg lies the village of Alpenrod, part of the collective municipality of Hachenburg.
1.5 km · mountain · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alpenrod
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 57 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 83 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 88 km
- Stations
- Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station, 2.2 km
- Köln (Cologne) → Alpenrod74 km · quickest by road, 2h · €10–14
- Frankfurt am Main → Alpenrod82 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Alpenrod82 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Alpenrod
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 Alpenrod. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Alpenrod
Alpenrod is 56 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.