Kaub - municipality of Germany

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

SE10: Frankfurt - Koblenz

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.

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