Montabaur
Montabaur is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Montabaur is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the administrative centre of the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur – a kind of collective municipality – to which 24 other communities belong. The town is known throughout the country for its strikingly yellow castle and its InterCityExpress railway station on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.
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Worth seeing in and around Montabaur
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.
- 01Köppel
The Köppel, at 540.2 m above sea level, is the second highest point in the Montabaur Heights, an elongated hill ridge in the Lower Westerwald in Germany. It is second only to the nearby Alarmstange and lies on the boundary between Montabaur and Dernbach in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
5.3 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Westerwälder Dom
Westerwälder Dom is the common name of the church St. Bonifatius in Wirges in the Westerwald region, Germany.
4.3 km · church in Rhineland-Palatine, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Schloss Montabaur
From Wikivoyage: Montabaur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
The Montabaur Fighting Farmers play American Football in the second division GFL2 (2018) which they reached after a perfect season in the third tier Regionalliga in 2017, the biggest success in club history.
From Wikivoyage: Montabaur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Montabaur
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 68 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 68 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 69 km
- Stations
- Montabaur station, 800 m
- Köln (Cologne) → Montabaur83 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €10–14
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → MontabaurTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Frankfurt am Main → Montabaur71 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €10–14
- 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 Montabaur
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 Montabaur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Montabaur
- Wirgestown of Germany4.6 km
- Bodenmunicipality of Westerwaldkreis, Germany4.6 km
- Heilberscheidmunicipality of Germany5.5 km
- Bannberscheidmunicipality of Germany4.2 km
- Ebernhahnmunicipality of Germany5.6 km
- Heiligenrothmunicipality of Germany3.1 km