--- title: "Bornhagen – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Bornhagen, Germany: Bornhagen is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, Germany, located at the foot of the ruins of Hanstein Castle.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bornhagen" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bornhagen.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Bornhagen_Gewerbe.jpg/1920px-Bornhagen_Gewerbe.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Bornhagen_Gewerbe.jpg/1920px-Bornhagen_Gewerbe.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Bornhagen · Westral 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornhagen), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanstein_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigstein_Castle) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-bornhagen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Bornhagen) - Büren → Bornhagen 99 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/buren-to-bornhagen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%BCren&to=Bornhagen) - Hannover → Bornhagen 116 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €15–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hannover-to-bornhagen) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hannover&to=Bornhagen) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Bornhagen) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 400 km 2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 553 km 3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 613 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 789 km 5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 803 km If you know how people move in Bornhagen – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbornhagen&title=Bornhagen&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbornhagen), and the note gets an entry. 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