--- title: "Hilgert – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Hilgert, Germany: Hilgert in the Kannenbäckerland is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hilgert" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hilgert.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Hilgert2.jpg" --- Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Rheinland-Pfalz # Hilgert Hilgert in the Kannenbäckerland is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ![Hilgert](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Hilgert2.jpg) Hilgert · Wikimedia Commons The place Hilgert in the Kannenbäckerland is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilgert), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Hilgert One place 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. Grenzau Castle Grenzau Castle is a ruined spur castle at 250 m above sea level near Höhr-Grenzhausen in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the only castle in Germany with a triangular bergfried. 2.5 km · castle · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenzau_Castle) 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 Hilgert **Airports:** Cologne Bonn (CGN), 60 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 64 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 78 km\ - Köln (Cologne) → Hilgert Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/koln-cologne-to-hilgert) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=K%C3%B6ln+%28Cologne%29&to=Hilgert) - Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Hilgert Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-lautzenhausen-to-hilgert) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main+%28Lautzenhausen%29&to=Hilgert) - Frankfurt am Main → Hilgert 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €11–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-to-hilgert) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main&to=Hilgert) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Hilgert) 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 Hilgert 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 Hilgert. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around Note that there are no bridges between Wiesbaden and Koblenz crossing the river but there are a number of ferries that take car, bike and foot passengers. - Get around {{listing | type Bingen-Rüdesheim Auto-Ferry | alt http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rheinfaehren/index.html | email | lat | directions | tollfree | hours | content=From Bingen Harbour to just below Rüdesheim Bahnhof. - Get around }} {{listing | type Bingen-Rüdesheim Ferry | alt http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rheinfaehren/index.html | email | lat | directions | tollfree | hours | content=From Bingen Bridge 5 to just below Rüdesheim City. - Get around Interchanging between the two is possible at Koblenz; alternatively, if you are staying in a town linked by a ferry service to the other side of the river, you may use the ferry to reach the line from the other side (for example Sankt Goar/Sankt Goarshausen, or Bingen/Rüdesheim). - Get around The Rheinsteig walking trail passes on the right Rhine side through (Wiesbaden), Rüdesheim, Lorch, Kaub, Braubach, Lahnstein, Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein, Neuwied, Linz am Rhein, Bad Honnef and (Bonn). From [Wikivoyage: Middle Rhine Valley](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Middle_Rhine_Valley), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 364 km 2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 493 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 635 km 4. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 705 km 5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 720 km If you know how people move in Hilgert – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Chilgert&title=Hilgert&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhilgert), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Hilgert Hilgert is 52 km from [Bonn](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bonn), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Höhr-Grenzhausen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hohr-grenzhausen) town in Germany 2.6 km - [Ransbach-Baumbach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ransbach-baumbach) town of Germany 2.8 km - [Alsbach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alsbach) municipality of Germany 2.2 km - [Hundsdorf](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hundsdorf) municipality of Germany 2.1 km - [Wirscheid](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wirscheid) municipality of Germany 2.9 km - [Sessenbach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sessenbach) municipality of Germany 3.9 km [The place page for Hilgert](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/hilgert) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hilgert, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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