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Bad Arolsen

Bad Arolsen is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district.

Bad Arolsen
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The place

Bad Arolsen is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and then until 1929 as the capital of the Waldeck Free State. The International Tracing Service has its headquarters in Bad Arolsen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bad Arolsen

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Arolsen Castle

    Arolsen Castle is a baroque-style schloss in Bad Arolsen, Hesse, Germany. The castle is now a museum, and is still inhabited by Carl-Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and his family.

    1.6 km · museum in Bad Arolsen, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Twistesee

    The Twistesee is a reservoir on the Twiste in the county of Waldeck-Frankenberg in North Hesse, Germany.

    3.7 km · reservoir in Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bad Arolsen

Airports
Kassel (KSF), 27 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 39 km · Dortmund (DTM), 99 km
  • Dortmund → Bad Arolsen
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €13–18
  • Greven → Bad Arolsen
    263 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · €39–55
  • Hannover → Bad Arolsen
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · €20–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bad Arolsen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bad Arolsen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    347 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    574 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    602 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    725 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    807 km

If you know how people move in Bad Arolsen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bad Arolsen

  • Mengeringhausenquarter of Bad Arolsen, Waldeck-Frankenberg District, Hesse, Germany1.9 km