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Urmitz

Urmitz is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Urmitz
Urmitz · Rolf Kranz
The place

Urmitz is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

In the 4th millennium BC it contained one of the largest fortified settlements of the time. This archaeological site has since been destroyed by modern construction.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Urmitz

One place 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
    Schloss Engers

    Schloss Engers is a Baroque-style palace in Engers, near Koblenz, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Rhine river.

    1.9 km · German palace · 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 Urmitz

Airports
Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 55 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 57 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 86 km
Stations
Engers station, 2.3 km · Neuwied station, 3.8 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Urmitz
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Köln (Cologne) → Urmitz
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €11–15
  • Frankfurt am Main → Urmitz
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €13–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Urmitz

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundNote that there are no bridges between Wiesbaden and Koblenz crossing the river but there are a number of ferries that take car, bike and foot passengers.
  • Get around{{listing | type Bingen-Rüdesheim Auto-Ferry | alt http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rheinfaehren/index.html | email | lat | directions | tollfree | hours | content=From Bingen Harbour to just below Rüdesheim Bahnhof.
  • Get around}} {{listing | type Bingen-Rüdesheim Ferry | alt http://www.bingen-ruedesheimer.com/rheinfaehren/index.html | email | lat | directions | tollfree | hours | content=From Bingen Bridge 5 to just below Rüdesheim City.
  • Get aroundInterchanging between the two is possible at Koblenz; alternatively, if you are staying in a town linked by a ferry service to the other side of the river, you may use the ferry to reach the line from the other side (for example Sankt Goar/Sankt Goarshausen, or Bingen/Rüdesheim).
  • Get aroundThe Rheinsteig walking trail passes on the right Rhine side through (Wiesbaden), Rüdesheim, Lorch, Kaub, Braubach, Lahnstein, Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein, Neuwied, Linz am Rhein, Bad Honnef and (Bonn).

From Wikivoyage: Middle Rhine Valley, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    363 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    489 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    624 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    714 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    718 km

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

Around it

Next door to Urmitz

Urmitz is 47 km from Bonn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.