--- title: "Prüm – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Prüm, Germany: Prüm is a town in the Westeifel (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. Nearby: Prüm Abbey, Sandals of Christ, Basilica of the Transfiguration of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prum" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/prum.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Visitor_centre_in_Pruem_%282%29.jpg/1920px-Visitor_centre_in_Pruem_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Rheinland-Pfalz # Prüm Prüm is a town in the Westeifel (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. ![Prüm](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Visitor_centre_in_Pruem_%282%29.jpg/1920px-Visitor_centre_in_Pruem_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Prüm · Krzysztof Golik The place Prüm is a town in the Westeifel (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. Formerly a district capital, today it is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Prüm. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCm), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Prüm 5 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. Prüm Abbey Prüm Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Prüm, now in the diocese of Trier, founded by the Frankish widow Bertrada the elder and her son Charibert, Count of Laon, in 721. The first abbot was Angloardus. 200 m · abbey · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCm_Abbey) 2. Sandals of Christ The Sandals of Jesus Christ were among the most important relics of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. They were donated to Prüm Abbey by Pepin the Short who received them from Pope Stephen II. 200 m · shoes worn by Jesus, important relics of the Catholic Church · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandals_of_Jesus_Christ) 3. Basilica of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Prüm The Basilica of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is a Catholic church in the West Eifel, Germany, and a papal minor basilica dedicated to the Holy Savior and the Transfiguration of Christ. 200 m · church in Prüm, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Transfiguration_of_Our_Lord,_Pr%C3%BCm) 4. Hardtkopf (Eifel) The Hardtkopf is a high hill in the county of Bitburg-Prüm in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It rises in the South Eifel range and, at 601.5 m above sea level, is the highest point on the edge of the Prüm Limestone Basin. 4 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtkopf_(Eifel%29) 5. Schönecken Castle Schönecken Castle is a ruined hill castle at 467 m above sea level above the village of Schönecken in the Nims valley in the West Eifel mountains. It lies within the county of Bitburg-Prüm in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. 6 km · castle · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6necken_Castle) 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 Prüm **Airports:** Luxembourg-Findel (LUX), 66 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 66 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 89 km\ - Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Prüm Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-lautzenhausen-to-prum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main+%28Lautzenhausen%29&to=Pr%C3%BCm) - Köln (Cologne) → Prüm 90 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/koln-cologne-to-prum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=K%C3%B6ln+%28Cologne%29&to=Pr%C3%BCm) - Düsseldorf → Prüm 116 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · €14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dusseldorf-to-prum) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=D%C3%BCsseldorf&to=Pr%C3%BCm) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Pr%C3%BCm) 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 Prüm 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 Prüm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 355 km 2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 476 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 550 km 4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 720 km 5. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 772 km If you know how people move in Prüm – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cprum&title=Pr%C3%BCm&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fprum), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Prüm - [Fleringen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fleringen) municipality of Germany 5.4 km - [Rommersheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rommersheim) municipality of Germany 2.2 km - [Watzerath](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/watzerath) municipality of Germany 5.1 km - [Niederlauch](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/niederlauch) municipality of Germany 5.1 km - [Winringen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winringen) municipality of Germany 6 km - [Weinsheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/weinsheim) municipality in Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Germany 4.3 km [The place page for Prüm](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/prum) [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/prum, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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