Eppstein
Eppstein is a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany.
Eppstein is a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Eppstein lies west of Frankfurt am Main, around 12 km (7.5 mi) north east of the state capital Wiesbaden, and is at the edge of the Taunus mountains. The ruins of the Eppstein castle is a prominent landmark, and houses a museum.
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Worth seeing in and around Eppstein
4 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.
- 01Rossert
Rossert is a mountain of the Taunus, part of the Anterior Taunus, in Hesse, Germany. The mountain consists of a few hilltops, two of them giving the name the Naturschutzgebiet Rossert - Hainkopf - Dachsbau.
3.4 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Atzelberg
The Atzelberg is a mountain of the Taunus near Eppenhain, constituent community of Kelkheim, Hesse, Germany. Its silhouette is remarkable for a Typenturm radio tower.
4.7 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 03Atzelberg Tower
Atzelberg Tower, also known as Atzelberg Observation Tower for long, was a 30.39 m-high German wooden lattice observation tower that was located on the summit of the 506.7 m-high mountain of Atzelberg. The Atzelberg Tower had a floor count of 6 floors including both the ground floor and the top.
4.7 km · observation tower in Taunus · Wikipedia - 04Hofgut Retters in Kelkheim
Rettershof is a crown domain northeast of Fischbach, a district of Kelkheim in the Vordertaunus. It goes back to a former Premonstratensian monastery.
4.5 km · national heritage site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Eppstein
- Airports
- Frankfurt Main (FRA), 16 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 84 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 121 km
- Stations
- Kelkheim station, 3.4 km · Eppstein station, 1.1 km
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → EppsteinTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Köln (Cologne) → Eppstein134 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €16–22
- Rheinmünster → Eppstein157 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €20–28
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Eppstein
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 Eppstein. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor 2-5 people travelling together on a day trip from Frankfurt, the RMV group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) is more economical and more convenient that using single trip tickets.
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Next door to Eppstein
Eppstein is 20 km from Frankfurt am Main, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kelkheim (Taunus)town in Hesse, Germany3.8 km
- Fischbachmunicipal district of Kelkheim (Taunus), Germany2.6 km
- Langenhainvillage near Frankfurt, Germany3.1 km
- Main-Taunusfederal electoral district of Germany3.6 km