Nister

Worth seeing in and around Nister

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
   Westerwald

   The Westerwald is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif.

   1.1 km · low mountain range in Germany · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Marienstatt Abbey

   Marienstatt Abbey is a Cistercian monastery and a pilgrimage site in Streithausen, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Nister valley near Hachenburg. The abbey has an early-Gothic Basilica with the largest organ in the Westerwald, a library, a brewery with restaurant, a shop for books and art, a guest house, and a privately supported secondary school, the Privates Gymnasium Marienstatt.

   2.7 km · Cistercian monastery · Wikipedia

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Getting to Nister

Airports

Cologne Bonn (CGN), 53 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 88 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 91 km

Stations

Hachenburg train station, 1.7 km

• Köln (Cologne) → Nister

  70 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €9–12
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• Frankfurt am Main → Nister

  86 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · €13–18
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• Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Nister

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