Eckfeld

Worth seeing in and around Eckfeld

3 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
   Castles of Manderscheid

   Near the Eifel town of Manderscheid are the ruins of two castles, the castles of Manderschied, whose history and location reflect the mediaeval conflict of interest between the Electorate of Trier and the Duchy of Luxembourg.

   2.7 km · castle ruin · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Maar Museum

   The Maar Museum in Manderscheid in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a museum whose focus is natural variety and international significance for science and the region of the volcanic maars that characterise parts of the Eifel mountains.

   3.4 km · museum in Manderscheid, Germany · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Eckfelder Maar

   The Eckfelder Maar is a former volcanic lake, that was formed during the Middle Eocene around 44.3 million years ago and is thus the oldest known maar. It lies in the southwestern Eifel mountains near Manderscheid in Germany.

   2 km · fossil site and oldest known maar, in the Eifel mountains in Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Eckfeld

Airports

Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 35 km · Luxembourg-Findel (LUX), 70 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 87 km

• Köln (Cologne) → Eckfeld

  89 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €12–16
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• Frankfurt am Main → Eckfeld

  131 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · €19–27
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• Düsseldorf → Eckfeld

  123 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €15–22
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