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Town in Hesse, Germany

Oestrich-Winkel

Oestrich-Winkel is a town with roughly 12,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.

Oestrich-Winkel
Oestrich-Winkel · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Oestrich-Winkel is a town with roughly 12,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oestrich-Winkel

8 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
    Imperial Palace Ingelheim

    The Ingelheim Imperial Palace was an important imperial palace erected in the second half of the 8th century in Germany. It served kings of Francia and later Holy Roman Emperors and Kings as a residenz and place for governance until the 11th century.

    4.8 km · an important Imperial Palace erected in the second half of the 8th century in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

    EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, more commonly referred to as EBS Universität or simply EBS, is a state-recognized private research university specializing in the disciplines of business and law. The university is located in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.

    2.6 km · German private university · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rheingauer Dom

    Rheingauer Dom is the colloquial name for the Catholic parish church in Geisenheim, Germany. Officially Pfarrkirche Heilig Kreuz, the large church in the Rheingau region is called Dom although it was never a bishop's seat.

    4.2 km · Catholic parish church in Geisenheim, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hallgarter Zange

    The Hallgarter Zange is a hill in the Taunus mountains of Hesse, Germany.

    5.2 km · Taunus mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kalte Herberge

    Kalte Herberge is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

    5.9 km · Taunus mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute

    The Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute was founded in 1872 and is located in the town of Geisenheim, in Germany's Rheingau region. In 1876 Swiss-born professor Hermann Müller joined the institute, where he developed his namesake grape variety Müller-Thurgau, which became Germany's most-planted grape variety in the 1970s.

    4.5 km · German research institute · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Martin

    St. Martin is the name of a Catholic church and former parish in Oestrich, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Germany.

    1 km · church building in Oestrich-Winkel, Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Graues Haus

    Graues Haus is a Romanesque house in Winkel in the Rheingau, Germany. It is assumed that it was erected in the late tenth century and is therefore among the oldest stone houses in Germany.

    900 m · medieval quarry stone building of a two-story residential building facing the Rhine and cultural monument in Winkel, Hesse, Germany · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Schloss Vollrads

    13th century founded manor house and wine estate famous for its Riesling.

  2. 02
    Oestricher Kran

From Wikivoyage: Oestrich-Winkel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Grüner Baum

    Rheingaustraße 45,.

  2. 02
    Weingut Ankermühle

    Kapperweg,.

From Wikivoyage: Oestrich-Winkel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Oestrich-Winkel

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 39 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 54 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 114 km
Stations
Hattenheim station, 3.1 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Oestrich-Winkel
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Köln (Cologne) → Oestrich-Winkel
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €19–27
  • Rheinmünster → Oestrich-Winkel
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €21–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oestrich-Winkel

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRail station "Oestrich-Winkel" in Mittelheim by the line: Frankfurt – Wiesbaden – Rüdesheim – Koblenz – Neuwied Bus line 171 from Wiesbaden Hbf to Rüdesheim The Rheinsteig walking trail passes through Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Kiedrich, Kloster Eberbach near Eltville, Schloss Vollrads near Oestrich-Winkel, Monstera Marienthal near Geisenheim and Niederwalddenkmal near Rüdesheim.
  • Go nextIngelheim with the ferry Rüdesheim Geisenheim – Schloss Johannisberg Eltville – Kloster Eberbach Wiesbaden

From Wikivoyage: Oestrich-Winkel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    420 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    443 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    665 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    666 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    741 km

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Around it

Next door to Oestrich-Winkel

Oestrich-Winkel is 49 km from Frankfurt am Main, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ingelheim am Rheinseat of Landkreis Mainz-Bingen and city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany4.2 km
  • Geisenheimtown in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany4.3 km
  • Gau-Algesheimmunicipality of Germany5.8 km
  • Hallgartenmunicipal district of Oestrich-Winkel in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Germany2.9 km
  • Erbachmunicipal district of Eltville am Rhein, Germany5.9 km
  • Ohrenbrücker TorGate in the city wall of Ingelheim am Rhein in Germany5.6 km