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Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Hesse

Alsbach

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

Alsbach
Alsbach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alsbach

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
    Grenzau Castle

    Grenzau Castle is a ruined spur castle at 250 m above sea level near Höhr-Grenzhausen in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the only castle in Germany with a triangular bergfried.

    1.8 km · castle · 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 Alsbach

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 58 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 64 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 80 km
  • Köln (Cologne) → Alsbach
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · €10–14
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Alsbach
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Frankfurt am Main → Alsbach
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · €5–7
  • 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 Alsbach

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 Alsbach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundNote that there are no bridges between Wiesbaden and Koblenz crossing the river but there are a number of ferries that take car, bike and foot passengers.
  • Get around{{listing | type Bingen-Rüdesheim Auto-Ferry | alt http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rheinfaehren/index.html | email | lat | directions | tollfree | hours | content=From Bingen Harbour to just below Rüdesheim Bahnhof.
  • Get around}} {{listing | type Bingen-Rüdesheim Ferry | alt http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rheinfaehren/index.html | email | lat | directions | tollfree | hours | content=From Bingen Bridge 5 to just below Rüdesheim City.
  • Get aroundInterchanging between the two is possible at Koblenz; alternatively, if you are staying in a town linked by a ferry service to the other side of the river, you may use the ferry to reach the line from the other side (for example Sankt Goar/Sankt Goarshausen, or Bingen/Rüdesheim).
  • Get aroundThe Rheinsteig walking trail passes on the right Rhine side through (Wiesbaden), Rüdesheim, Lorch, Kaub, Braubach, Lahnstein, Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein, Neuwied, Linz am Rhein, Bad Honnef and (Bonn).

From Wikivoyage: Middle Rhine Valley, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    363 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    494 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    633 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    705 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    721 km

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

Around it

Next door to Alsbach

Alsbach is 50 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.