Hachenburg

Worth seeing in and around Hachenburg

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
   Westerwald

   The Westerwald is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif.

   1.1 km · low mountain range in Germany · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Marienstatt Abbey

   Marienstatt Abbey is a Cistercian monastery and a pilgrimage site in Streithausen, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Nister valley near Hachenburg. The abbey has an early-Gothic Basilica with the largest organ in the Westerwald, a library, a brewery with restaurant, a shop for books and art, a guest house, and a privately supported secondary school, the Privates Gymnasium Marienstatt.

   2.9 km · Cistercian monastery · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Gräbersberg

   The Gräbersberg, at 513.1 m above sea level, the highest point in the western Westerwald, a low mountain range in central Germany whose western region extends from the Nister river in the east to the Rhine in the west. On the slopes of the Gräbersberg lies the village of Alpenrod, part of the collective municipality of Hachenburg.

   4.6 km · mountain · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hachenburg

Airports

Cologne Bonn (CGN), 53 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 88 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 89 km

Stations

Hachenburg train station, 300 m

• Köln (Cologne) → Hachenburg

  68 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · €8–12
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• Frankfurt am Main → Hachenburg

  86 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · €12–17
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• Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Hachenburg

  86 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €12–17
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