Indoor Activities Westerwald

Letting Off Steam: Indoor Playground, Bouldering and Bowling

Some days no museum will do and what's needed is running around. For those days you'll find indoor centres in the region where you can run, climb and go down slides, and all of it in the dry. That goes for children and adults alike.

Flippolino Children's Play Paradise in Kirchen

With roughly 3,000 square metres of play space, Flippolino in Kirchen an der Sieg is the largest children's play paradise in the Altenkirchen district. Inside there's a climbing maze over 3 storeys with 3 slides, plus a children's rollercoaster, a Ferris wheel, a bungee trampoline and a go-kart track. That puts it pretty close to an indoor theme park, and the fun comfortably fills an entire afternoon. There's no shortage of action here.

The youngest have an area of their own across 400 square metres. The play and bouncing area is heated in winter and air-conditioned on hot days. So it's worth a trip on more than just rainy days, and the family stays dry all day long.

Bouldering and Bowling

In Wallmenroth, the Boulderlounge Linie 9 offers over 400 square metres of climbing surface with more than 150 routes across 5 difficulty levels. There's a separate beginners' area, over 16 metres of overhang climbing and a children's climbing zone with a built-in slide. If you're after a classic climbing wall, this climbing centre has routes for every grade and plenty of action. If you'd rather bowl than climb, Bad Marienberg has 5 American-style bowling lanes and Hachenburg has 8 stringless lanes, 4 of them with bumpers for children, plus pool tables. Bouldering and bowling are both indoor leisure options that work just as well with mates as on a family outing.

Museums and Exhibitions for Rainy Days

Museums are the obvious bad-weather standby, and the choice in the region is wider than it first appears. From ceramics to fossils to the history of the motor car, you'll find almost every interest covered.

Keramikmuseum and Kannenbäckerland

The Keramikmuseum Westerwald in Höhr-Grenzhausen covers almost 5 centuries of ceramics history across over 2,500 square metres and 4 bright exhibition levels. The building has step-free access throughout, with a museum shop, a museum restaurant and a workshop of its own.

All around lies the Kannenbäckerland with its potteries and ceramics workshops. If you like craftsmanship, pair the museum visit with a stop at one of the workshops and watch clay turn into art. Pottery is still a living craft here.

From Stöffel Park to the Nationales Automuseum

At Stöffel Park near Enspel, the Tertiärum is devoted to the fossils found here, among them the famous Stöffel mouse. The circuit takes you through some 25 million years of history. The Historic Workshop has the old forge laid out across around 325 square metres, and the switch house tells the story of basalt quarrying.

There are more museums besides: the Deutsches Raiffeisen-Museum in Hamm/Sieg, the Tonbergbaumuseum in Siershahn in its modern museum pavilion, the mining museum in Herdorf with a reconstructed show mine in the basement, and the Glockenwelt at Greifenstein Castle, where over 100 bells are on display and you're allowed to ring every single one. At the Nationales Automuseum in Ewersbach, around 150 cars fill the historic exhibition buildings, a journey through 135 years, and there's a cinema on site too. The Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald in Hachenburg has several historic buildings but is spread over large open grounds, so it's only half an answer to a day of steady rain.