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Municipality in Thuringia, Germany

Bornhagen

Bornhagen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany, located at the foot of the ruins of Hanstein Castle.

Bornhagen
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The place

Bornhagen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany, located at the foot of the ruins of Hanstein Castle. The town district Rimbach is positioned directly south of the castle citadel at an elevation of 370 m. Bornhagen is located 22 km south of Göttingen, 85 km northwest of the state capital Erfurt and 270 km southwest of Berlin. It is the westernmost settlement in Thuringia but does not contain the westernmost point which is 75 km south near Geisa.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bornhagen

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
    Hanstein Castle

    Hanstein Castle is a ruined castle in Central Germany near Bornhagen in the Eichsfeld, situated above the river Werra in Thuringia. The name of the nobles von Hansteins, most notable Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, derived from the castle.

    500 m · castle · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle of Ludwigstein

    Ludwigstein Castle is a 15th-century castle overlooking the river Werra and surrounded by woodland. It stands southwest of the town of Witzenhausen in North Hesse.

    3.4 km · castle in Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bornhagen

Airports
Kassel (KSF), 39 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 82 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 97 km
Stations
Eichenberg railway station, 3.8 km
  • Erfurt → Bornhagen
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €14–19
  • Büren → Bornhagen
    99 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €14–19
  • Hannover → Bornhagen
    116 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €15–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bornhagen

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 Bornhagen. 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

    400 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    553 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    613 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    789 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    803 km

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Around it

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