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Katzenelnbogen
Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Katzenelnbogen

Katzenelnbogen is the name of a castle and small town in the district of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Plan a trip to Katzenelnbogen→From Frankfurt am Main

Katzenelnbogen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Aar-Einrich.

Get in

Getting to Katzenelnbogen

The place is connected via the B 274 to St. Goarshausen and to the B 54 at Zollhaus im Aartal. The state road 318 leads via Diez to the B 54 to Limburg. Bus lines of the Rheingau-Taunus-Verkehrsgesellschaft or the Nassauische Verkehrs-GmbH connect Katzenelnbogen several times a day with Wiesbaden, St. Goarshausen and Limburg. There is no train service.

See

Worth seeing

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    Burg Katzenelnbogen

    The castle was built on a promontory over the river Lahn around 1095.

Do

Things to do

The Bartholomäusmarkt takes place on the penultimate weekend in August. It goes back to a market introduced after the city was founded in 1312, which over the years changed from a weekly market to a fair. The Katzenelnbogen Ritterspiele have been taking place on the first weekend in June since 2007, inspired by the historical ring prick that can be seen on an old view of Katzenelnbogen.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Kaminsky, Peter (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.