--- title: "Ockenheim – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ockenheim, Germany: Ockenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ockenheim" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ockenheim.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg/1920px-Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Rheinland-Pfalz # Ockenheim Ockenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ![Ockenheim](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg/1920px-Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Ockenheim · Thomas Woodtli from Zürich, Switzerland The place Ockenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ockenheim), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Ockenheim 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. Jakobsberg Priory Jakobsberg Priory is a Benedictine monastery at Ockenheim, in the district of Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the missionary Ottilien Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation. 1.3 km · abbey · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsberg_Priory) 2. University of Applied Sciences Bingen The Bingen Technical University of Applied Sciences is a university located in Bingen am Rhein, Germany. It was founded in 1897. 3.7 km · university of applied sciences in Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingen_Technical_University_of_Applied_Sciences) 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 Ockenheim **Airports:** Frankfurt Main (FRA), 43 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 51 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 118 km\ - Frankfurt am Main → Ockenheim 54 km · quickest by road, 56 min · €7–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-to-ockenheim) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main&to=Ockenheim) - Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Ockenheim Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-lautzenhausen-to-ockenheim) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main+%28Lautzenhausen%29&to=Ockenheim) - Köln (Cologne) → Ockenheim 132 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €17–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/koln-cologne-to-ockenheim) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=K%C3%B6ln+%28Cologne%29&to=Ockenheim) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ockenheim) 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 Ockenheim 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 Ockenheim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in From Bingen harbour you can take a car-ferry to Rüdesheim. - Get in Between Wiesbaden and Koblenz there are no bridges across the Rhine although there are a number of ferries. - Get in Ferry Rüdesheim – Bingen - You can also hop on a ferry across the river to Bingen and board there. - Get in The Rheinsteig walking trail passes above Eibingen, Rüdesheim and through Assmannshausen. - Get around You can travel to Assmannshausen by train or bus, or just walk along the Rhine (6-7 km), you can also take a cable car up to Niederwald and a chair lift back down to Assmannshausen. From [Wikivoyage: Rüdesheim](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdesheim), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 424 km 2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 436 km 3. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 660 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 663 km 5. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 748 km If you know how people move in Ockenheim – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cockenheim&title=Ockenheim&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fockenheim), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ockenheim Ockenheim is 54 km from [Frankfurt am Main](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/frankfurt-am-main), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Gau-Algesheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gau-algesheim) municipality of Germany 3.3 km - [Aspisheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aspisheim) municipality of Germany 3.9 km [The place page for Ockenheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ockenheim) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ockenheim, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt