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

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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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.
- 01Veldenz 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 - 02Grevenburg
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 - 03Cusanusstift
The Cusanusstift is a historic building in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany.
100 m · library in Germany · Wikipedia - 04Geisberg (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-Kues113 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €15–21
- Frankfurt am Main → Bernkastel-Kues117 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €15–20
- Rheinmünster → Bernkastel-Kues147 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €24–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bernkastel-Kues
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.
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Next door to Bernkastel-Kues
- Traben-Trarbachtown in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany5.2 km
- Longkampmunicipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany4.5 km
- Kommenmunicipality of Germany5.9 km
- Maring-Noviandmunicipality of Germany5.3 km
- Veldenzmunicipality of Germany4.2 km
- Mülheim an der Moselmunicipality of Germany4.3 km