Oberwesel

Oberwesel is in Middle Rhine Valley.

Understand

Get in

By car

The B9 runs along the riverside of the town and is about half way between Bingen and Koblenz. Alternatively 12 km from the A61 exit 44 Laudert.

• Fährgemeinschaft Kaub. Car and foot passenger ferry crosses the Rhine just south of Oberwesel from Kaub. 

By train

Train station is on the line Mainz – Koblenz.

By boat

• Bingen-Rüdesheimer cruise boat to/from Bingen and Rüdesheim.
• The Köln-Düsseldorfer Rheinschiffahrt, better known as KD, runs cruises and scheduled services up and down the river between Cologne and Mainz, stopping in Sankt Goar.

Get around

See

Oberwesel town wall

• 🌍 Oberwesel townwall (Oberwesel Stadtmauer). Excellent example of town wall with many defensive towers 
• 🌍 Schönburg. 12th century castle with expensive but impressive restaurant and hotel. 

Do

• Walk part of the Rheinburgenweg

Events

• Rhein in Flammen: 14 September 2019. The “Night of a Thousand Fires” has been traditionally staged at Oberwesel. For this spectacle, 50 illuminated ships convoy to the town of St. Goar to watch the illumination of the legendary Loreley rock rising 300 feet out of the river. The procession will go from there upstream to Oberwesel passing towns, castles, and churches bathed in Bengal lights. The musical brilliant firework display in front of the medieval backdrop of Oberwesel is the highlight of the boat parade.
• Mittelalterliches Spectaculum: 9–21 May 2018. Medieval festival (date needs updating)

Buy

Eat

• 🌍 Weinhaus Weiler, Marktplatz 4, ☎ [phone]. Also hotel rooms (updated May 2015)
• 🌍 Günderode Haus, Rheingoldstraße (am Siebenjungfrauenblick on the hill north of the town.), ☎ [phone]. German food with original flare. Building was located in this position with spectacular view of the Rhein for the film Heimat 3. (updated May 2015)

Drink

Sleep

• 🌍 DJH Jugendherberge Oberwesel, Auf dem Schönberg, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Hotel Augustins, Rathausstraße 2, ☎ [phone]. One of the few places in the area that serves food throughout the day in the week. (updated May 2015)

Connect

Go next

• Sankt Goar
• Bacharach