Kaub
Kaub is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis.
Kaub is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. It is part of the municipality (Verbandsgemeinde) Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 50 km west from Wiesbaden. It is connected to Wiesbaden and Koblenz by railway. It has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, and a statue of General Blücher. Historically, trade mainly consisted of the wines of the district.
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Worth seeing in and around Kaub
8 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.
- 01Pfalzgrafenstein Castle
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, also known as the Pfalz, is a toll castle situated on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, adjacent to Kaub, Germany. First established in 1326/27 by King Ludwig IV the Bavarian, the castle served to collect river tolls from passing traffic.
600 m · castle in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Stahleck Castle
Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It stands on a crag approximately 160 metres above sea level on the left bank of the river at the mouth of the Steeg valley, approximately 50 kilometres south of Koblenz, and offers a commanding view of the Lorelei valley.
3.3 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia - 03Gutenfels Castle
Gutenfels Castle, historically known as Caub Castle or Kaub Castle, is a castle located 110m above the town of Kaub in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
200 m · castle in Germany · Wikipedia - 04Schönburg
The Schönburg is a castle above the medieval town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
2.6 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia - 05St. Martin, Lorch
St. Martin is a Gothic church and the associated Catholic parish in Lorch am Rhein, Hesse, Germany.
5.7 km · church building in Lorch, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Ruine Nollig
Nollig Castle is a ruin above the village of Lorch in Hesse, Germany.
5.2 km · Castle Ruine in Germany · Wikipedia - 07St. Bonifatius
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic church in Lorchhausen, part of Lorch, Hesse, Germany.
4.2 km · church in Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia - 08Pegel Kaub
The Kaub gauging station is a stream gauge located on the Rhine river in the German city of Kaub. It is a "decisive" water level measurement site for the Rhine, as Kaub is located at the shallowest part of the Middle Rhine and ships with freight from North Sea ports have to pass Kaub on their way to the industrial southwest of Germany.
300 m · Water measurement site in Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Pfalzgrafenstein Castle
Toll station on the Rhine island built in 1327.
- 02Blücherdenkmal
- 03Burg Gutenfels
Visitors can walk round the exterior, but is in private hands.
From Wikivoyage: Kaub, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Hike part of the Rheinsteig
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Where to eat
- 01Beim Alten Zollhaus
Zollstraße 14,.
- 02Bennos Truck Stop
Rheinuferstraße 1,.
From Wikivoyage: Kaub, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Kaub
- Airports
- Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 39 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 57 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 97 km
- Stations
- Oberwesel station, 2.8 km
- Frankfurt am Main → Kaub66 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €8–12
- Köln (Cologne) → Kaub109 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · €14–20
- Rheinmünster → Kaub150 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · €19–26
- 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 Kaub
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 Kaub. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFährgemeinschaft Kaub Ferry across the Rhine from the B9, Bacharach / Oberwesel.
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