Kelkheim
Kelkheim, officially "Kelkheim (Taunus)", is a town in the Main-Taunus district in Hesse, Germany, close to Germany's financial center Frankfurt/Main.
Kelkheim, officially "Kelkheim (Taunus)", is a town in the Main-Taunus district in Hesse, Germany, close to Germany's financial center Frankfurt/Main.
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Worth seeing in and around Kelkheim
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.
- 01Opel-Zoo
The Opel Zoo is a zoo in Königstein im Taunus, Hesse in Germany. The Zoo was founded in 1956 by Georg von Opel, and covers 27 hectares.
5.7 km · zoo in Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Rossert
Rossert is a mountain of the Taunus, part of the Anterior Taunus, in Hesse, Germany. The mountain consists of a few hilltops, two of them giving the name the Naturschutzgebiet Rossert - Hainkopf - Dachsbau.
4.6 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 03Hofgut Retters in Kelkheim
Rettershof is a crown domain northeast of Fischbach, a district of Kelkheim in the Vordertaunus. It goes back to a former Premonstratensian monastery.
3.7 km · national heritage site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kelkheim
- Airports
- Frankfurt Main (FRA), 15 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 87 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 123 km
- Stations
- Bad Soden (Taunus) station, 3.9 km · Hofheim (Taunus) station, 5.9 km · Kelkheim station, 100 m · Eppstein station, 4.4 km
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Kelkheim17 km · quickest by road, 36 min · €2–3
- Köln (Cologne) → Kelkheim138 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €16–23
- Rheinmünster → Kelkheim157 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €19–27
- 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 Kelkheim
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 Kelkheim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor 2-5 people travelling together on a day trip from Frankfurt, the RMV group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) is more economical and more convenient that using single trip tickets.
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If you know how people move in Kelkheim – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kelkheim
Kelkheim is 17 km from Frankfurt am Main, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hofheim am Taunusseat of Main-Taunus-Kreis and town in Hesse, Germany5.6 km
- Königstein im Taunusspa town in Hochtaunuskreis district in Hesse, Germany5.1 km
- Eppsteintown in Hesse, Germany4.1 km
- Bad Soden am Taunustown in Main-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany3.6 km
- Schwalbach am Taunustown in Main-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany5.9 km
- Sulzbach (Taunus)municipality in the Main-Taunus district in Hesse, Germany5.7 km