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Kemmenau

Kemmenau is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Kemmenau
Kemmenau · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kemmenau is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. It belongs to the association community of Bad Ems-Nassau.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kemmenau

2 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.

  1. 01
    Sporkenburg

    The Sporkenburg is a late medieval castle ruin about one kilometre south of Eitelborn in the district of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

    2.6 km · castle ruin · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bismarck Tower (Bad Ems)

    The Bismarck Tower of Bad Ems on the Lahn in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis of Rhineland-Palatinate was built in honour of the first German Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck. Designed by architect Wilhelm Kreis, the tower stands east of the city centre on the Bismarckhöhe, is twelve and a half meters high, and was inaugurated in 1901.

    2.5 km · Tower in honor of Otto von Bismarck · Wikipedia

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 Kemmenau

Airports
Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 57 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 68 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 72 km
Stations
Bad Ems station, 2.7 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Kemmenau
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · €11–15
  • Frankfurt am Main → Kemmenau
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €11–15
  • Köln (Cologne) → Kemmenau
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €11–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kemmenau

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 Kemmenau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundYou can reach Festung Ehrenbreitstein by taxi, bus, or by taking a ferry across the Rhine River and walking up the walled access road to the fortress.
  • Get aroundYou can also ride a chairlift (Sesselbahn) to the top of the fortress.

From Wikivoyage: Koblenz, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    377 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    481 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    641 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    707 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    714 km

If you know how people move in Kemmenau – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kemmenau

  • Bad Emsseat of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis and town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany3.1 km
  • Hömbergmunicipality in the Bad Ems-Nassau municipal association, Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.6 km
  • Eitelbornmunicipality of Germany3.9 km
  • Arzbachmunicipality of Germany3.6 km
  • Dausenaumunicipality of Germany1.7 km
  • Zimmerschiedmunicipality of Germany2.3 km