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

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.
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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.
- 01Namedy 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 - 02Burg 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
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Getting to Hammerstein
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 46 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 59 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 99 km
- Köln (Cologne) → Hammerstein58 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · €7–9
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Hammerstein103 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €14–19
- Düsseldorf → Hammerstein92 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · €11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 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.
- 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.
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Next door to Hammerstein
Hammerstein is 34 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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