Heidelberg
Worth seeing in and around Heidelberg
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.
- 01Heidelberg University
Public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1.2 km · Wikipedia - 02
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- 05Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Research institute in Heidelberg of the Max Planck Society
2.7 km · Wikipedia - 06
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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.
Getting to Heidelberg
- Airports
- Frankfurt Main (FRA), 69 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 83 km · Stuttgart (STR), 89 km
- Stations
- Heidelberg Central Station, 1.2 km · Heidelberg-Kirchheim/Rohrbach station, 3.3 km · Heidelberg-Altstadt station, 2.3 km
- Frankfurt am Main → Heidelberg79 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €10–13
- Rheinmünster → Heidelberg87 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · €10–14
- Stuttgart → Heidelberg78 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €12–17
- 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 Heidelberg
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 Heidelberg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Heidelberg
Heidelberg is 19 km from Mannheim, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Eppelheimmunicipality in Germany4.5 km
- Dossenheimmunicipality in Germany4.8 km
- Neuenheimer Feldneighborhood in Heidelberg, Germany1.8 km
- Heidelberger Bergbahntwo section funicular railway in the city of Heidelberg, Germany1.8 km