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Bernkastel-Kues

Bernkastel-Kues is a town on the Middle Mosel in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Bernkastel-Kues
Bernkastel-Kues · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bernkastel-Kues is a town on the Middle Mosel in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is well-known for its winegrowing. The town is a state-recognized health resort (Erholungsort), seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Bernkastel-Kues and birthplace of one of the most famous German polymaths, the medieval churchman and philosopher Nikolaus von Kues (Cusanus).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bernkastel-Kues

4 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
    Veldenz Palace

    Schloss Veldenz in the Hunsrück upland, on a steep vale draining into the Mosel is a castle ruin about 1.5 kilometres southeast of the village of Veldenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

    4.2 km · castle ruin in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Grevenburg

    Grevenburg was a castle in Traben-Trarbach in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It was the residence of the Rear County of Sponheim and today is a ruin following its destruction by the French in 1734.

    4.7 km · castle ruin · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cusanusstift

    The Cusanusstift is a historic building in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany.

    100 m · library in Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Geisberg (Middle Moselle)

    The Geisberg is a 262 m high mountain at Mülheim on Moselle, in Germany. It is a remnant of a dry fallen meander of the river Moselle.

    5.2 km · mountain · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bernkastel-Kues

Airports
Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 14 km · Luxembourg-Findel (LUX), 69 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 106 km
  • Köln (Cologne) → Bernkastel-Kues
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €15–21
  • Frankfurt am Main → Bernkastel-Kues
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €15–20
  • Rheinmünster → Bernkastel-Kues
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €24–34
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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 Bernkastel-Kues. 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

    400 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    436 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    601 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    674 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    778 km

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