Sankt Augustin
Sankt Augustin is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Sankt Augustin is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the patron saint of the Steyler missionaries, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The missionaries established the "Saint Augustine Monastery" near the current town centre in 1913. The municipality of Sankt Augustin was established in 1969, and on September 6, 1977, Sankt Augustin acquired town privileges. Sankt Augustin is situated about 8 km northeast of Bonn and 8 km southwest of Siegburg. Sankt Augustin belongs to the economic region of Bonn/Rhein-Sieg as well as the scientific region of Bonn. With over 59,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest town in the Rhein-Sieg district.
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Worth seeing in and around Sankt Augustin
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.
- 01St Maria and Clemens Church
The Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf is a Romanesque church in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
5.5 km · church in Bonn · Wikipedia - 02Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
The Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance is a German institute located in Sankt Augustin near Bonn and is a main department of the German Social Accident Insurance. Belonging to the Statutory Accident Insurance means that IFA is a non-profit institution.
800 m · German research institute near Bonn · Wikipedia - 03Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences is a public German University of Applied Sciences with approximately 9,000 students and 150 professors Its campus comprises three distinct locations, situated in Sankt Augustin, Rheinbach and Hennef/Sieg. Since 1 January 2009, it bears the name Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and the abbreviation H-BRS, which is also used internationally.
1.2 km · university of applied sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Studiobühne Siegburg
Studiobühne Siegburg is a privately owned theatre in the city of Siegburg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
3.6 km · theater · Wikipedia - 05Nobel Metamorphoses
Nobel Metamorphoses is a 1984 public sculpture by Hans-Jürgen Breuste in Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located in Alfred-Nobel Platz, at the centre of the pedestrianised main street of the city, the sculpture is a critical comparison of the work and inventions Alfred Nobel, and the eponymous peace prize.
5.5 km · sculpture in Troisdorf, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Siegaue. The Siegaue follows the river Sieg north of the town. Here you can go by bike or just have a walk. Schloß Birlinghoven. the castle in Birlinghoven's forest is a nice one. It today belongs to the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft for aritmethics, so you normally just can see it from outside. But if you have the chance to get in it, do it! Steyler Mission.
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Where to eat
Grillspezialitäten (Persian/Iranian), Bonner Str. 77
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Getting to Sankt Augustin
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 11 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 65 km · Dortmund (DTM), 88 km
- Stations
- Siegburg/Bonn station, 2.9 km · Bonn-Beuel station, 5.5 km · Troisdorf station, 5.5 km · Limperich Nord, 5.8 km · Küdinghoven, 5.7 km
- Düsseldorf → Sankt Augustin58 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €7–10
- Dortmund → Sankt Augustin84 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · €12–17
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Sankt AugustinTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sankt Augustin
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 Sankt Augustin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy boat, you can reach Königswinter with the tourist boats on the Rhine and by ferry from Bonn Mehlem, but this is not useful only if you live in Bonn.
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Next door to Sankt Augustin
Sankt Augustin is 8 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Siegburgcity in the district of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany3.7 km
- Troisdorftown in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.6 km
- Rhein-Sieg Districtdistrict in Cologne Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5 km