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Hammerstein

Hammerstein is a municipality on the river Rhine in the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

Hammerstein
Hammerstein · Colin
The place

Hammerstein is a municipality on the river Rhine in the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

Near the village, is the Hammerstein castle. The ancient German noble family Hammerstein, which have sponsored the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, comes from here.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hammerstein

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
    Namedy Castle

    Namedy Castle is located in the Rhine valley, close to the village of Namedy in Andernach, Germany. Late gothic, moated castle originally belonging to the Husmann Knights of Andernach.

    2.4 km · Rhine valley castle, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Burg Hammerstein

    Hammerstein Castle is the ruin of a 10th-century mountain castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, the oldest in this entire Middle Rhine Valley. The ruin of one of its watchtowers still overlooks the Rhine at an altitude of 195 m, near the village of Hammerstein.

    800 m · castle · 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.

Go there

Getting to Hammerstein

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 46 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 59 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 99 km
  • Köln (Cologne) → Hammerstein
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · €7–9
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Hammerstein
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €14–19
  • Düsseldorf → Hammerstein
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · €11–15
  • From anywhere
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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 Hammerstein

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSome local RB services stop here, but getting there requires a ride on a ferry.
  • Get inRemagen - Erpel Ferry (Rheinfähre Nixe), Corner of Fährgasse / Rheinpromenade.

From Wikivoyage: Remagen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    351 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    496 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    611 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    714 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    728 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hammerstein

Hammerstein is 34 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.