Altenkirchen
Altenkirchen is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen.

Altenkirchen is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.
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Worth seeing in and around Altenkirchen
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.
- 01Marienthal Abbey
Marienthal Abbey was a Franziscan monastery in the Westerwald in the present-day county of Altenkirchen in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Today Marienthal is a village in the municipality of Seelbach bei Hamm, which had a population of 55 residents on 30 June 2011.
5.8 km · German monastery · Wikipedia - 02Herzburg
The Herzburg was a castle near the county town of Altenkirchen that stood on the long hill spur between Gieleroth, Widderstein, Ingelbach and Borod. Archaeological monuments and place names give clues to the earlier settlement.
4.2 km · castle · Wikipedia
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Getting to Altenkirchen
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 41 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 87 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 91 km
- Stations
- Altenkirchen (Westerw) railway station, 500 m
- Köln (Cologne) → Altenkirchen57 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €7–10
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Altenkirchen98 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18
- Düsseldorf → Altenkirchen85 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Altenkirchen
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 Altenkirchen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Altenkirchen
Altenkirchen is 39 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Helmenzenmunicipality of Germany2 km
- Hilgenrothmunicipality of Germany5.4 km
- Birkenbeulmunicipality of Germany6 km
- Eichelhardtmunicipality of Germany5.2 km
- Birnbachmunicipality of Germany4.6 km
- Heupelzenmunicipality of Germany4.4 km