Vallendar

Vallendar is a small town in Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) region of Germany, with about 5.000 inhabitants.

Understand

The town sits on the right bank of the Rhine with hills of the Westerwald rising to the east.

In the town is the WHU-Otto Beisheim, a private business school which only has about 500 students; the PTHV theological college; and is the location of the catholic Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt.

Get in

On the B42 between Koblenz and Bendorf

The rail station is on the East Rhine Railway with connections to Cologne and Wiesbaden/Frankfurt

Get around

See

• The town as a pedestrianised shopping area containing a number of timber framed houses.
• 🌍 Kaiser-Friedrich-Turm. A 25m high steel observation tower built in 1899 

Do

• The Rheinsteig goes through the town.

Buy

Eat

• 🌍 Die Traube, Rathausplatz 12, ☎ [phone]. 
• 🌍 Wüstenhof (Above the town along narrow road towards Weitersburg.), ☎ [phone]. Excellent food and drink with a view into the Rhine valley. 

Drink

• 🌍 Korova-Bar, Hellenstraße 43. is the traditional meeting point of Germany's elite business students. 

Sleep

• 🌍 Alexander Von Humboldt, Rheinstraße 31, ☎ [phone]. 

Go next

• At the river front is the bridge to Niederwerth, the only river island village in Germany.
• Koblenz
• Bendorf
• Neuwied