Unkel
Unkel is a town in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Unkel is a town in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, near Remagen, about 20 km southeast of Bonn.
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Worth seeing in and around Unkel
3 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.
- 01Apollinaris Church
The Apollinariskirche is a church on the site of a Roman temple on the Apollinarisberg, a hill above the German town of Remagen. That hill was known as the Martinsberg in the 5th and 6th centuries, presumably after a Frankish chapel there dedicated to Saint Martin, patron of the Franks.
2.2 km · roman-catholic church in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Rodderberg
The Rodderberg is an extinct volcano in the east of the municipality of Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany. The last eruption was 250,000 years ago.
4.8 km · mountain in Wachtberg, Germany; geonames ID = 2846120 · Wikipedia - 03Burg Linz
The Castle of Linz is a castle in Linz am Rhein, Germany, built between 1364 and 1368 by Heinrich von Virneburg, who was the archbishop of Cologne at the time. The main function of the castle was to collect river tolls.
5.9 km · castle in Linz am Rhein, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Unkel
- Airports
- Cologne Bonn (CGN), 30 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 73 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 83 km
- Stations
- Remagen station, 2.9 km · Rolandseck station, 3.4 km · Unkel station, 400 m
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Unkel117 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €15–22
- Düsseldorf → Unkel76 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €9–12
- Dortmund → Unkel104 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €14–19
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Unkel
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 Unkel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSome local RB services stop here, but getting there requires a ride on a ferry.
- Get inRemagen - Erpel Ferry (Rheinfähre Nixe), Corner of Fährgasse / Rheinpromenade.
From Wikivoyage: Remagen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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Next door to Unkel
Unkel is 17 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Remagentown in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.7 km
- Bad Honneftown in Rhein-Sieg District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5 km
- Linz am Rheintown in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany6 km
- Bruchhausenmunicipality of Germany2.7 km
- Erpelmunicipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.5 km
- Rheinbreitbachmunicipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.4 km