Bad Honnef
Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels mountain, part of the Siebengebirge.
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Worth seeing in and around Bad Honnef
7 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.
- 01Siebengebirge
The Siebengebirge, occasionally Sieben Mountains or Seven Mountains, are a hill range of the German Central Uplands on the east bank of the Middle Rhine, southeast of Bonn.
4.1 km · German hill range on the east bank of the Rhine · Wikipedia - 02Drachenfels
The Drachenfels is a hill ) in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath.
2.6 km · mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Petersberg
The Petersberg ), formerly known as the Stromberg, is a mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range near Bonn, Germany. It overlooks the cities of Königswinter, on the right bank of the Rhine river, and Bonn on the opposite side.
4.8 km · mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range near Bonn, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Rodderberg
The Rodderberg is an extinct volcano in the east of the municipality of Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany. The last eruption was 250,000 years ago.
2 km · mountain in Wachtberg, Germany; geonames ID = 2846120 · Wikipedia - 05Asberg
The Asberg is a hill, 441 m above sea level, on the Rheinwesterwald Volcanic Ridge on the northern edge of the Linz Heights. Until the 1970s it was the site of a basalt quarry.
5.3 km · mountain of the Westerwald · Wikipedia - 06Großer Ölberg
The Großer Ölberg, at 460 metres above sea level, is the highest hill in the Siebengebirge range in Germany. It is located in the borough of Königswinter near the village of Ittenbach and south of a subpeak known as the Kleiner Ölberg ).
4.4 km · highest mountain in the Siebengebirge mountain range, Germany · Wikipedia - 07Hotel Petersberg
The Hotel Petersberg is a hotel and official guest house of Germany, termed the "Bundesgästehaus". It is located on the Petersberg, a prominent mountain of the Siebengebirge near Bonn, Germany.
4.8 km · building in Königswinter near Bonn, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Rheininsel Grafenwerth
- 02Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus
- 03Siebengebirge
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Things to do
Rheinsteig. Walk part of this long distance trail Rhein in Flammen (Rhine in Flames): early May. Between Linz am Rhein and Bonn (date needs fixing)
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Where to eat
- 01Burgermeisterei
- 02Ristorante Caesareo
Rhöndorfer Straße 39,.
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Getting to Bad Honnef
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 25 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 78 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 79 km
- Stations
- Rolandseck station, 2.1 km · Unkel station, 4.7 km · Rhöndorf station, 1.9 km · Bonn-Mehlem station, 4.2 km · Königswinter station, 4.4 km
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Bad Honnef119 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · €15–21
- Düsseldorf → Bad Honnef72 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €8–12
- Dortmund → Bad Honnef98 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bad Honnef
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 Bad Honnef. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy boat, you can reach Bad Honnef with the tourist boats on the Rhine and by ferry from Rolandseck, but this is not useful only if you live in Bonn.
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Next door to Bad Honnef
Bad Honnef is 14 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Königswintertown in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.3 km
- Unkeltown in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany5 km
- Rheinbreitbachmunicipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.8 km
- Bruchhausenmunicipality of Germany4.9 km
- Aegidienbergcity district of Bad Honnef, Germany5.5 km
- Rolandseckhuman settlement in Germany2.2 km