Bendorf
Bendorf is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, approx.
Bendorf is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 7 kilometres north of Koblenz.
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Worth seeing in and around Bendorf
6 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.
- 01Sayn Castle
The ruins of Sayn Castle, the 12th century family castle of the counts of Sayn and Sayn-Wittgenstein, are in Sayn, part of the borough of Bendorf on the Rhine, between Koblenz and Neuwied in the county of Mayen-Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
1.2 km · castle ruins in Bendorf, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Schloss Engers
Schloss Engers is a Baroque-style palace in Engers, near Koblenz, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Rhine river.
2.1 km · German palace · Wikipedia - 03DB Museum, Koblenz
The DB Museum in Koblenz was opened on 21 April 2001 as the first remote site of the Nuremberg Transport Museum. It is run by volunteer workers as part of the Stiftung Bahn-Sozialwerk, a kind of railway workers social service organisation, and has its origins in a BSW's 'Group for the Preservation of Historical Railway Vehicles' at Koblenz.
6 km · museum · Wikipedia - 04Zoo Neuwied
The Neuwied Zoo is a zoo located on the edge of the town of Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate. It borders the Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park.
2.7 km · zoo in Germany · Wikipedia - 05Schönbornslust
Schönbornslust was a palace located in Kesselheim, part of the city of Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was a summer residence and hunting lodge of the Prince-Electors and Archbishops of Trier.
4.7 km · German summer palace (1748-1794) · Wikipedia - 06Vinzenz Pallotti University
The Vinzenz Pallotti University ) is a Roman Catholic private university in Vallendar, Germany, that originated as a religious university of the Pallottines. It is run as an ecclesiastically and state-recognized academic university under independent sponsorship.
5.1 km · Roman Catholic private university in Vallendar, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Abtei Sayn
- 02Burg Sayn
- 03Schloss Sayn
- 04Sayner Hütte
- 05Römerturm
- 06Garten der Schmetterlinge Schloss Sayn
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Things to do
Walk a section of the Rheinsteig
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Where to eat
- 01Lindenhof Sayn
Abteistraße 65, 56170 Bendorf-Sayn, info@lindenhof-sayn.de.
- 02DieSaynBurg
Am Burgberg, 56170 Bendorf-Sayn (In the castle),.
- 03Schlossrestaurant SaynerZeit
Schlossstraße 100, 56170 Bendorf-Sayn (In the Sayn Palace),.
- 04Sayner Scheune
Koblenz-Olper-Straße 165, 56170 Bendorf-Sayn (near Butterfly Garden),.
- 05Villa Sayn
Koblenz-Olper-Straße 111, 56170 Bendorf-Sayn, info@villasayn.de.
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Getting to Bendorf
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 57 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 58 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 83 km
- Stations
- Engers station, 1.7 km
- Köln (Cologne) → Bendorf72 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · €9–13
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Bendorf86 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €12–17
- Frankfurt am Main → Bendorf86 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bendorf
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 Bendorf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Bendorf
Bendorf is 48 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Kaltenengersmunicipality of Germany2.3 km
- Weitersburgmunicipality of Germany2.8 km
- Isenburgmunicipality of Germany5.5 km
- Niederwerthmunicipality of Germany4.8 km