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Bingen am Rhein

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Bingen am Rhein
Bingen am Rhein · Ingo Mehling
The place

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bingen am Rhein

10 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
    Niederwalddenkmal

    The Niederwald monument is a monument located in the Niederwald, near Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany, built between 1871 and 1883 to commemorate the Unification of Germany. The monument is located within the Rhine Gorge, a larger UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    1.6 km · monument commemorating the founding of Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rheinstein Castle

    Rheinstein Castle is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

    4.2 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Basilica of St. Martin, Bingen (Rhine)

    The Basilica of St. Martin also called Bingen am Rhein Basilica Is the main Catholic church of the city of Bingen am Rhein, in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

    600 m · minor basilica in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Eibingen Abbey

    Eibingen Abbey (German: Abtei St. Hildegard, full name: Benedictine Abbey St.

    3.5 km · monastery in Eibingen, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mouse Tower

    The Mouse Tower is a stone tower on a small island in the Rhine, outside Bingen am Rhein, Germany.

    1.5 km · tower on island in the Rhine, Bingen am Rhein, Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Klopp Castle

    Klopp Castle is a castle in the town of Bingen am Rhein in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. In the nineteenth century, the bergfried from the original medieval fortified castle was restored and a new building added which houses the town's administration.

    200 m · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Roch's Chapel, Bingen (Rhine)

    The Chapel of St. Roch is a German pilgrimage chapel, dedicated to Saint Roch, located on the Rochusberg southeast of Bingen am Rhein.

    1.9 km · church building in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Reichenstein Castle

    Reichenstein Castle, also known as Falkenburg, is a castle in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. It stands on a mountain spur on the eastern slope of the Bingen Forest, above the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Trechtingshausen in the Mainz-Bingen district in Germany.

    5.4 km · castle · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Rheingauer Dom

    Rheingauer Dom is the colloquial name for the Catholic parish church in Geisenheim, Germany. Officially Pfarrkirche Heilig Kreuz, the large church in the Rheingau region is called Dom although it was never a bishop's seat.

    5.1 km · Catholic parish church in Geisenheim, Germany · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bingen Forest

    The Bingen Forest is part of the Hunsrück, a low mountain range in the Central Uplands of Germany. It is up to 638.6 m above sea level and is located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

    4 km · mountain range · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Bingen am Rhein

Airports
Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 46 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 48 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 113 km
Stations
Bingen Central Station, 600 m · Rüdesheim (Rhein) station, 1.6 km · Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station, 500 m
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Bingen am Rhein
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Frankfurt am Main → Bingen am Rhein
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €7–10
  • Köln (Cologne) → Bingen am Rhein
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bingen am Rhein

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Hesse the car ferry from Rüdesheim is a recommended journey.
  • Get inThey also operate a foot passenger ferry from Rüdesheim.

From Wikivoyage: Bingen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    419 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    439 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    658 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    664 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    748 km

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Around it

Next door to Bingen am Rhein

Bingen am Rhein is 58 km from Frankfurt am Main, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.