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Alpenrod

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

Alpenrod
Alpenrod · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Gräbersberg

    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

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.

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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) → Alpenrod
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h · €10–14
  • Frankfurt am Main → Alpenrod
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Alpenrod
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    354 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    513 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    646 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    682 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    736 km

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

Around it

Next door to Alpenrod

Alpenrod is 56 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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