Königswinterer Drachenfels

Königswinterer Drachenfels is a locality in Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia. Königswinterer Drachenfels is situated nearby to the locality Auf der Steingasse, as well as near Rüdenet.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Drachenfels and Schloss Drachenburg.

Drachenfels

Peak

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The Drachenfels is a hill in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath.

Schloss Drachenburg

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Schloss Drachenburg or Drachenburg Castle is a private villa styled as a palace and constructed in the late 19th century. It was completed in only two years on the Drachenfels hill in Königswinter, a German town on the east bank of the Rhine, south of the city of Bonn.

Rhöndorf station

Railway station

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Rhöndorf is a station on the East Rhine Railway in Rhöndorf, a district of the town of Bad Honnef in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened on 11 July 1870 in the course of the extension of the East Rhine Railway from Neuwied to Oberkassel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bad Honnef and Niederbachem.

Bad Honnef

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Bad Honnef is a spa town in the end of the Middle Rhine Valley in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia state between Königswinter and Linz an Rhein. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels mountain, part of the Siebengebirge.