Skip to content
Mixroutes
Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Rheinland-Pfalz

Betzdorf

Betzdorf is a town and municipality in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Betzdorf
Betzdorf · Cayambe
The place

Betzdorf is a town and municipality in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Betzdorf is part of the district of Altenkirchen. Betzdorf is located on the river Sieg, approx. 15 km (9.3 mi) south-west of Siegen. Betzdorf is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Betzdorf-Gebhardshain. Betzdorf (Sieg) station is a railway junction with closed marshalling yard on the Sieg Railway, the Betzdorf–Haiger railway and the Betzdorf–Daaden railway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Betzdorf

One place 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
    Freusburg

    Numerous castles are found in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. These buildings, some of which have a history of over 1000 years, were the setting of historical events and the domains of famous personalities; and many still are imposing edifices to this day.

    4.6 km · castle · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Betzdorf

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 52 km · Dortmund (DTM), 83 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 95 km
Stations
Betzdorf (Sieg) station, 500 m
  • Köln (Cologne) → Betzdorf
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · €10–14
  • Dortmund → Betzdorf
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €11–16
  • Düsseldorf → Betzdorf
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · €14–19
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Betzdorf

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 Betzdorf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address 50.707778 | long near Burbach | phone | hours | wikipedia Q685497 | content= Germany's second highest airport, but only approached by charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Siegen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    340 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    530 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    645 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    666 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    753 km

If you know how people move in Betzdorf – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Betzdorf

Betzdorf is 55 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kirchentown of Germany2.7 km
  • Herdorftown of Germany5.8 km
  • Kausenmunicipality of Germany4.8 km
  • Dickendorfmunicipality of Germany5.1 km
  • Katzwinkelmunicipality in Altenkirchen district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany4.9 km
  • Brachbachmunicipality of Germany5.5 km