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Altenkirchen

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

Altenkirchen
Altenkirchen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Marienthal 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
  2. 02
    Herzburg

    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) → Altenkirchen
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €7–10
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Altenkirchen
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18
  • Düsseldorf → Altenkirchen
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €11–15
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    341 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    519 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    630 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    683 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    746 km

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

Around it

Next door to Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen is 39 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.