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Municipality in Saxony, Germany

Bockau

Bockau is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

Bockau
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The place

Bockau is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in the Free State of Saxony in Germany. The community is known for growing and researching herbs. Owing to its centuries-old cultivation of angelica, whose roots are used in making liqueurs, Bockau is also known locally by the nickname Wurzelbucke.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bockau

4 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
    Gemauerter Stein

    Gemauerter Stein is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.

    2.9 km · Mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Morgenleithe

    Morgenleithe is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.

    3.5 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Heidelsberg

    Heidelsberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.

    3.4 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Nicholas' Church, Aue

    The Evangelical-Lutheran parish church of St. Nicholas (German: Pfarrkirche St.

    3.9 km · church building in Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony, Germany · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bockau

Airports
Karlovy Vary (KLV), 41 km · Dresden (DRS), 99 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 102 km
  • Dresden → Bockau
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €12–17
  • Schkeuditz → Bockau
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €14–19
  • Erfurt → Bockau
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · €16–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bockau

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 Bockau. 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

    610 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    611 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    623 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    749 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    870 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bockau

  • Auequarter of Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony, Germany, formerly an independent municipality3.9 km
  • Lauterhuman settlement in Saxony3 km
  • Lauter-Bernsbachmunicipality of Germany4 km