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Eppelheim

Eppelheim is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg bordering Heidelberg.

Eppelheim
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The place

Eppelheim is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg bordering Heidelberg. It belongs to the district Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Eppelheim

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
    Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university and one of the world's oldest surviving universities; it was the third university established in the Holy Roman Empire after Prague and Vienna.

    5.4 km · public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Schwetzingen Palace

    Schwetzingen Palace is a schloss in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Schwetzingen was the summer residence of the Electors Palatine Charles III Philip and Charles IV Theodore.

    4.9 km · palace in Schwetzingen, Germany, formerly the summer residence of the Electors Palatine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg

    The Church of the Holy Spirit is the largest church in Heidelberg, Germany. The church, located in the marketplace in the old town center, was constructed between 1398 and 1515 in the Romanesque and Gothic styles.

    5.7 km · church in Heidelberg · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old Bridge

    The Karl Theodor Bridge, commonly known as the Old Bridge, is an arch bridge in Heidelberg that crosses the Neckar river. It connects the Old City with the eastern part of the Neuenheim district of the city on the opposite bank.

    5.7 km · bridge over the Neckar in Heidelberg, Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

    The Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik is a research institute in Heidelberg, Germany. The institute is one of the 80 institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, an independent, non-profit research organization.

    5.7 km · research institute in Heidelberg, Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mosque Schwetzingen

    The Schwetzinger Garden Mosque, also known as the Red Mosque, is a mosque-like decorative building in the park of Schwetzingen Palace in the former Electoral Palatinate, now the northern tip of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Completed in 1796 CE, it is the oldest mosque-like building in Germany.

    5.4 km · building in Schwetzingen palace gardens, Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kurpfälzisches Museum

    The Kurpfälzisches Museum is a museum of art and archaeology in Heidelberg, Germany. It is located in the Palais Morass.

    5.2 km · museum in Heidelberg, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma

    The Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma was established in Heidelberg, Germany, in the early 1990s, as a memorial to Sinti and Roma people who were killed by the National Socialists Party. After several years of extension work collecting stories from the victims, conducting research, and conversion, the building complex was ceremonially opened to the public on 16 March 1997, and was supported by the attendance of many Roma and Sinti survivors.

    5.7 km · military museum · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Heiligenberg

    The Heiligenberg is a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It rises to around 440 metres NHN.

    6 km · mountain in Heidelberg, Germany · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Heidelberg Zoo

    Heidelberg Zoo is a zoo in Germany which was founded in 1933 and opened for the public on 20 November 1934. Since 1998, the zoo director has been Klaus Wünnemann.

    2.6 km · zoo 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 Eppelheim

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 70 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 80 km · Stuttgart (STR), 90 km
Stations
Heidelberg Central Station, 3.1 km · Heidelberg-Kirchheim/Rohrbach station, 3.8 km
  • Frankfurt am Main → Eppelheim
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · €9–13
  • Rheinmünster → Eppelheim
    84 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · €10–14
  • Stuttgart → Eppelheim
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Eppelheim

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe town Edingen-Neckarhausen is on the opposite side of the Neckar and can be reached either by ferry (travel times and prices) or via the wide footbridge along the side of the railway bridge.

From Wikivoyage: Ladenburg, 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
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    382 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    500 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    592 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    723 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    788 km

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

Around it

Next door to Eppelheim

Eppelheim is 16 km from Mannheim, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.