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Urbar

Urbar is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Urbar
Urbar · Jörg Braukmann
The place

Urbar is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen. From 1974 to 1999, Urbar was a Stadtteil of Oberwesel; however, with effect from 13 June 1999, it once more became a self-administering municipality.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Urbar

4 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
    Rheinfels Castle

    Rheinfels Castle is a castle ruin located above the left bank of the Rhine in Sankt Goar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was started in 1245 by Count Diether V of Katzenelnbogen.

    2.8 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Katz Castle

    Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate. The castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at Sankt Goar.

    2.3 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Schönburg

    The Schönburg is a castle above the medieval town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

    3.4 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Freilichtbühne Loreley

    The Freilichtbühne Loreley is an amphitheatre located on top of the Lorelei rock in St. Goarshausen, Germany.

    1.5 km · open-air theatre in St. Goarshausen, 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.

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Getting to Urbar

Airports
Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 39 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 61 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 91 km
Stations
Oberwesel station, 3.1 km
  • Frankfurt am Main → Urbar
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €11–16
  • Köln (Cologne) → Urbar
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €10–14
  • Düsseldorf → Urbar
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Urbar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFährgemeinschaft Kaub Ferry across the Rhine from the B9, Bacharach / Oberwesel.

From Wikivoyage: Kaub, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    397 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    457 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    642 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    684 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    736 km

If you know how people move in Urbar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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