Herborn
Herborn is a historic town on the Dill in the Lahn-Dill district of Hesse in Germany.
Herborn is a historic town on the Dill in the Lahn-Dill district of Hesse in Germany. Before World War I, it was granted its own title as Nassauisches Rothenburg. The symbol or mascot of this town is a bear. Scenic attractions include its half-timbered houses; Herborn is located on the German Timber-Frame Road. Herborn hosted the 26th Hessentag state festival in 1986, and the 56th Hessentag in 2016.
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Worth seeing in and around Herborn
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.
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- 02Villa Haas
Villa Haas is a historical villa in the small city of Sinn, Hesse located at the western edge of the Hörre in Germany. The villa, the park, the surrounding streets "Hansastrasse / Rudolfstrasse" are Renaissance Revival architecture cultural monuments.
3.1 km · manor house · Wikipedia - 03Herborn Castle
Herborn Castle is situated right above the city of Herborn, in the Lahn-Dill district of the state of Hesse, Germany.
300 m · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Herborn
- Airports
- Frankfurt Main (FRA), 75 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 84 km · Dortmund (DTM), 105 km
- Stations
- Dillenburg station, 5.9 km · Herborn station, 200 m
- Frankfurt am Main → Herborn68 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €9–13
- Köln (Cologne) → Herborn99 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €13–18
- Dortmund → Herborn110 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €14–19
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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 Herborn
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 Herborn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIn addition to this, many taxi and minivan services are also available (e.g.
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Next door to Herborn
- Dillenburgtown in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany5.9 km
- Mittenaarmunicipality in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany5.8 km
- Sinnmunicipality in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany4.1 km