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Exploring Hesse

Eltville, situated in the Rheingau, one of Germany’s most
important wine-producing regions, is famous for its Riesling DortmundDortmund Warburg
Warburg
wine. Frankfurt am Main, known around the world as a great Göttingen
Göttingen
Fulda
financial and commercial centre, also has fantastic museums, Bad Arolsen Fulda
Bad Arolsen
drawing visitors with their outstanding art collections, while Werra
Diemel
the International Book Fair is a true paradise for readers and Diemel
Werra
bookworms. In the 19th century, wealthy socialites chose Bad KorbachKorbach KASSELKASSEL Kaufungen
Kaufungen
Homburg as their favourite spa, while the romantic town of L A N D
Marburg still has the lively atmosphere of a university town. Meißner
Meißner
L A N D
754m
754m
Eder-
Eder-
W A L D E C K E R
W A L D E C K E R
Stausee Melsungen
Stausee
Melsungen
FRITZLAR
FRITZLAR
Bad
FrankenbergFrankenberg Bad
Wildungen
Wildungen
Rotenburg
Rotenburg
Fulda
Fulda
Borken Eisenach
Borken
Eisenach
Bebra
HESSENHESSEN Bebra
Bad Hersfeld
Bad Hersfeld
Lahn
Lahn
StadtallendorfStadtallendorf
Fulda
Siegen
Siegen Fulda
ALSFELD
MARBURG ALSFELD
MARBURG
DillenburgDillenburg
Altenburg
Altenburg
The Dom in Limburg, overlooking the Lahn river Herborn
Herborn
Hünfeld
Hünfeld
Lauterbach
Lauterbach
The Messeturm in the Frankfurt fairgrounds, designed
by Helmut Jahn
V o g e l s b e r g
WETZLARWETZLAR GIESSENGIESSEN GrünbergGrünberg
Lahn
Lahn Wetter V o g e l s b e r g FULDA WasserkuppeWasserkuppe
FULDA
Wetter
Taufstein
Taufstein
772m
Koblenz
Koblenz WEILBURGWEILBURG 772m 950m950m Getting Around
Nidda
Neuhof
Butzbach
Butzbach Nidda Neuhof The A7 motorway, cutting across Hesse in
LIMBURGLIMBURG Bad Kinzig Kinzig a north–south direction, provides a fast
Bad
Nauheim
Nauheim transport link. Starting from Hanover, it
SchlüchternSchlüchtern runs through Göttingen, Kassel and Fulda
Schweinfurt to Würzburg in Bavaria. The A4 runs from
Schweinfurt
Großer Feldberg
Großer Feldberg Dresden, via Weimar, to Bad Hersfeld. From
880m
880m
Idstein
Idstein BAD BAD there visitors can take the A7 or the A5,
HOMBURGHOMBURG
T a u n u s s KönigsteinKönigstein towards Gießen, Bad Homburg, Frankfurt
T a u n u
am Main and onwards to Darmstadt and
KelkheimKelkheim
HanauHanau
Heidelberg. The fast ICE railway connects
FRANKFURT
KIEDRICHKIEDRICH WIESBADEN WIESBADEN FRANKFURT Main Kassel and Frankfurt am Main with Basel
AM MAIN
Main
ELTVILLE
Winkel
Winkel ELTVILLE AM MAIN (in Switzerland), Stuttgart, Berlin and
RüsselsheimRüsselsheim DreiechDreiech Munich. Frankfurt am Main has one of
Würzburg Europe’s largest airports, and there are
Würzburg
RÜDESHEIMRÜDESHEIM
The giant Niederwalddenkmal near Rüdesheim also international flights from Kassel.
Gross-Gerau
Gross-Gerau
DARMSTADTDARMSTADT
0 kilometres 20
Sights at a Glance Rhein PfungstadtPfungstadt 0 miles 20
Rhein
1 Kassel pp368–9 e Wiesbaden O d e n w a l d
O d e n w a l d
2 Fritzlar r Kiedrich MICHELSTADT
MICHELSTADT
4 Fulda t Rüdesheim Worms Bensheim Key
Worms
Bensheim
5 Alsfeld y Frankfurt am Main pp378–83 LORSCHLORSCH Motorway
Erbach
6 Marburg u Darmstadt Erbach Motorway under construction
7 Gießen i Lorsch Major road
8 Wetzlar o Michelstadt Viernheim Minor road
Viernheim
9 Weilburg
0 Limburg Excursions Heidelberg Main railway
Heidelberg
q Bad Homburg 3 Waldecker Land Minor railway
w Eltville Statue of the Brothers Grimm in Hanau Regional border
Summit
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