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

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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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.
- 01Hanstein 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 - 02Castle 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 → Bornhagen85 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €14–19
- Büren → Bornhagen99 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €14–19
- Hannover → Bornhagen116 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €15–21
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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.
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- Gerbershausenmunicipality of Germany2.9 km
- Werleshausenhuman settlement in Germany2.7 km