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Westerburg

Westerburg is a small town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Westerburg
Westerburg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Westerburg is a small town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the medieval town centre

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Westerburg

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
    Wiesensee

    The Wiesensee was an artificial lake, dammed up in 1971, in the Westerwald low mountain range. The lake covered about 80 hectares and lied in the area of Stahlhofen am Wiesensee's various centres on the lake's west shore, and Pottum on the north shore in the Westerwaldkreis.

    3.3 km · lake in 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 Westerburg

Airports
Cologne Bonn (CGN), 67 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 73 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 85 km
Stations
Westerburg station, 800 m
  • Köln (Cologne) → Westerburg
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €12–16
  • Frankfurt am Main → Westerburg
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · €10–14
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Westerburg
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · €10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Westerburg

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 Westerburg. 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. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    365 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    506 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    654 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    685 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    728 km

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