Bad Dürkheim

Worth seeing in and around Bad Dürkheim

10 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
   Eckkopf

   The Eckkopf is a 516-metre-high hill in the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies about 3 km west of the small Palatine town of Deidesheim in the Haardt, as the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest is called.

   5.3 km · mountain · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Rahnfels

   The Rahnfels is a hill in the Palatine Forest in Germany, about 2 kilometres northwest of the ruins of Hardenburg castle. With a summit height of 517 m above NN the Rahnfels is the highest point in the Palatine Forest north of the River Isenach.

   5.8 km · mountain · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Peterskopf

   The Peterskopf, near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a 487-metre-high hill in the Haardt mountains. On its summit is the Bismarck tower.

   3.5 km · mountain · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Teufelsstein

   The Teufelsstein in the Haardt mountains, near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a hill 317 m above sea level. On its domed summit is a monolith of the same name.

   1.9 km · mountain · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Hardenburg

   The Hardenburg on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest near the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim is even as a ruin one of the mightiest castles of Palatinate. It was the residence of the Counts of Leiningen, who in 1725 moved to Schloss Dürkheim.

   3.4 km · castle ruin in Bad Dürkheim, Palatinate, Germany · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Bismarck Tower

   The Bismarck Tower on the 497-metre-high Peterskopf in the Haardt mountains on the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest stands within an exclave of the municipality of Kallstadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

   3.5 km · observation tower on Peterskopf near Kallstadt · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Weilerskopf

   The Weilerskopf is a hill, 470 metres high, in a wooded exclave of Herxheim am Berg northwest of the German town of Bad Dürkheim. Its summit is the site of a transmission tower owned by Deutsche Telekom.

   4.6 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Ungeheuersee

   The Ungeheuersee in the Palatinate Forest of Germany is a raised bog pond surrounded by mixed forest, which is located about three kilometres west-southwest of the village of Weisenheim am Berg. Because the lake is part of the only raised bog in the Palatinate Forest and is important for the species-rich flora along its shore and on its floating island, it was placed under protection in the 1930s as a natural monument.

   5.5 km · lake in Germany · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Eckkopf Tower

   The Eckkopf Tower is a 25-metre-high observation tower on the eponymous Eckkopf, a major hill in the Palatine Forest of Germany. It has a tubular steel design and was erected in summer 1975 by the Deidesheim municipality.

   5.3 km · observation tower on Eckkopf mountain near Deidesheim · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St. Jacob's Church, Herxheim am Berg

    St. Jacob's Church is a Protestant parish church in Herxheim am Berg, Rhineland-Palatinate.

    5.7 km · Protestant church in Herxheim am Berg · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Limburg Monastery

   At the edge of the Palatinate Forest lie the once thriving Limburg Abbey’s ruins.

2. 02
   Schloss Hardenburg

   Beginning in the 13th century, the castle was the seat of the Counts of Leiningen, but was built in its current shape only in the 16th century.

From Wikivoyage: Bad Dürkheim, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Wurstmarkt:. Its name literally means “sausage market”, although it is in fact the world's biggest wine festival, drawing more than 600,000 visitors each year for ten days in mid-September. (date needs fixing) Stadtgeläute (the Town Bellringing). Once a year at 17:00 on the first Saturday in Advent, it is performed by ringers at the town's three churches, the Burgkirche, the Schlosskirche and the Ludwigskirche.

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Where to eat

1. 01
   Dürkheimer Riesenfass

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Getting to Bad Dürkheim

Airports

Frankfurt Main (FRA), 69 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 76 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 85 km

Stations

Erpolzheim station, 4.5 km · Bad Dürkheim station, 200 m · Freinsheim station, 5.5 km

• Frankfurt am Main → Bad Dürkheim

  81 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €11–15
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• Rheinmünster → Bad Dürkheim

  79 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €9–13
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• Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Bad Dürkheim

  81 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €10–15
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