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Ockenheim

Ockenheim

Ockenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Plan a trip to Ockenheim From Frankfurt am Main
How locals move

Getting around Ockenheim the local way

  • Get inFrom Bingen harbour you can take a car-ferry to Rüdesheim.
  • Get inBetween Wiesbaden and Koblenz there are no bridges across the Rhine although there are a number of ferries.
  • Get inFerry Rüdesheim – Bingen - You can also hop on a ferry across the river to Bingen and board there.
  • Get inThe Rheinsteig walking trail passes above Eibingen, Rüdesheim and through Assmannshausen.
  • Get aroundYou can travel to Assmannshausen by train or bus, or just walk along the Rhine (6-7 km), you can also take a cable car up to Niederwald and a chair lift back down to Assmannshausen.
  • Get aroundThe cable car runs from late March to early November and during the run-up to Christmas over the vineyards to the Niederwald monument.
  • Get aroundSingle: €5, return: €7, children 5-15 years: €2.50-3.50, including chairlift to Assmannshausen: €7, including return by boat: €13, including a tour on a larger boat and entrance to Rheinstein castle: €16.
  • Go nextAs Bingen is on the other bank of the Rhine, you would have to use the ferry.]] Assmannshausen Bingen Bacharach Loreley, the famous rock of Loreley near St.

From Wikivoyage: Rüdesheim, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Thomas Woodtli from Zürich, Switzerland (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.