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Town in Hesse, Germany

Dillenburg

Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany.

Dillenburg
Dillenburg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dillenburg

2 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
    Volpertsberg

    Volpertsberg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

    3.8 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Herborn Castle

    Herborn Castle is situated right above the city of Herborn, in the Lahn-Dill district of the state of Hesse, Germany.

    5.9 km · castle in Germany · 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.

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Getting to Dillenburg

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 81 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 82 km · Dortmund (DTM), 99 km
Stations
Dillenburg station, 800 m · Haiger station, 4.5 km · Herborn station, 5.7 km
  • Frankfurt am Main → Dillenburg
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €10–14
  • Köln (Cologne) → Dillenburg
    98 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · €12–17
  • Dortmund → Dillenburg
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €13–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Dillenburg

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIn addition to this, many taxi and minivan services are also available (e.g.

From Wikivoyage: Herborn, 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

    362 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    526 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    659 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    675 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    742 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dillenburg

  • Herborntown in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany5.9 km
  • Haigertown in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany5.7 km