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Town in Hesse, Germany

Zwingenberg

Zwingenberg lies in the Bergstraße district in southern Hessen, Germany, south of Frankfurt and Darmstadt, and with the granting of town rights coming in 1274 it is the oldest town on the Hessen Bergstraße.

Zwingenberg
Zwingenberg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Zwingenberg lies in the Bergstraße district in southern Hessen, Germany, south of Frankfurt and Darmstadt, and with the granting of town rights coming in 1274 it is the oldest town on the Hessen Bergstraße.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zwingenberg

7 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
    Melibokus

    The Melibokus is at 517 metres, the highest hill in the Bergstraße region of southern Hesse, central Germany. It was also the name of a mountain range in Germania, described by classical sources.

    1.7 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Auerbach Castle

    Auerbach Castle is one of several fortresses along the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, Germany. The castle was originally built by King Charlemagne and rebuilt by Count Diether IV of the Katzenelnbogen dynasty in the second quarter of the 13th century.

    1.4 km · castle in Bensheim, Hesse · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hemsberg

    Hemsberg is a hill in Hesse, Germany.

    5.6 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Felsberg

    The Felsberg is a hill in the Odenwald range in Hesse, Germany.

    5.1 km · Odenwald mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Schloss Heiligenberg

    Schloss Heiligenberg is a castle to the east of Jugenheim, part of Seeheim-Jugenheim, about 12 kilometres to the south of Darmstadt, Germany. It is built on the Heiligenberg, with panoramic views of the Rhineland as far as the Palatinate.

    4.5 km · castle to the east of Jugenheim, part of Seeheim-Jugenheim · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kirchberg

    Kirchberg is a hill located near Bensheim in Hesse, Germany. It stands at an elevation of approximately 220.6 meters.

    3.3 km · mountain in Bergstraße, Hesse · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Niederwaldsee

    The Niederwaldsee is a lake in Bensheim. Bensheim is a town in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.

    1.9 km · lake in Germany · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Zwingenberg

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 35 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 100 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 111 km
Stations
Bensheim station, 3.8 km · Bensheim-Auerbach station, 1.7 km · Bickenbach (Bergstr) station, 4.9 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Zwingenberg
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Rheinmünster → Zwingenberg
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €14–19
  • Stuttgart → Zwingenberg
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Zwingenberg

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 Zwingenberg. 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
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    416 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    469 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    627 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    714 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    755 km

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Around it

Next door to Zwingenberg

Zwingenberg is 28 km from Mannheim, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bensheimtown in Kreis Bergstraße in Hesse, Germany4 km
  • Alsbach-Hähnleinmunicipality in Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse, Germany2.8 km
  • Bickenbachmunicipality in Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse, Germany4.2 km
  • LautertalOdenwald municipality in Kreis Bergstraße, Germany5.5 km
  • Balkhausentown in Germany3.6 km