Kaub is a town in the Middle Rhine Valley, in the state Rhineland-Palatinate.
Understand
Get in
By Car
On the B42 north of Rüdesheim
Fährgemeinschaft Kaub Ferry across the Rhine from the B9, Bacharach / Oberwesel.
By cruise boat
KD (dead link: February 2023) (Köln Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG) and BRFS (dead link: August 2018) (Bingen-Rüdesheimer Fahrgastschiffahrt) boats cruise the Rhine stopping at Kaub.
By train
Get around
See
- Pfalzgrafenstein Castle (Burg Pfalzgrafenstein), 50.083148°, 7.765476°. Toll station on the Rhine island built in 1327.
- Blücherdenkmal (Monument to Blücher), 50.0864°, 7.7638°. On New Year's Night in 1813/1814 the Prussian General Blücher and his 60,000 soldiers with 20,000 horses crossed the Rhine with the aid of the pilots from Kaub and a pontoon bridge, to drive Napoleon out of Germany.
- Burg Gutenfels, 50.087905°, 7.766051°. 13th-century castle above the town. Visitors can walk round the exterior, but is in private hands.
Do
- Hike part of the Rheinsteig
Buy
Eat
- Beim Alten Zollhaus, Zollstraße 14, 50.08673°, 7.764279°, +49 6774918700.
- Bennos Truck Stop, Rheinuferstraße 1, 50.085429°, 7.765536°, +49 6774 1711. Very popular with bikers
Drink
Sleep
- Family and Youth hostel (Jugendherbergen), Zollstraße 46, 50.08673°, 7.764279°, +49 6774 9181890.
- Zum Turm, Zollstraße 50, 50.086928°, 7.763919°, +49 6774 92200.