Bürgel
Bürgel is a town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany.

Bürgel is a town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 12 km east of Jena. It contains the Benedictine monastery of Bürgel Abbey.
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Worth seeing in and around Bürgel
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.
- 01Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
The Karl Schwarzschild Observatory is a German astronomical observatory in Tautenburg near Jena, Thuringia. It is owned and operated as under public law by the State of Thuringia.
5.2 km · observatory · Wikipedia - 02Bürgel Abbey
Bürgel Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in the village of Thalbürgel of the town of Bürgel in Saale-Holzland-Kreis district in Thuringia, Germany.
800 m · monastery in Bürgel, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bürgel
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 56 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 63 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 116 km
- Erfurt → Bürgel51 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €6–9
- Schkeuditz → Bürgel60 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · €7–10
- Dresden → Bürgel139 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €16–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bürgel
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 Bürgel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor day trips within the state, the Thüringen-Ticket (€35-€67) offers good value for groups, covering all regional transport in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.
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Next door to Bürgel
- Saale-Holzland-Kreisdistrict in Thuringia, Germany2.4 km
- Löberschützmunicipality of Germany4.6 km
- Rauschwitzmunicipality of Germany4.8 km
- Nausnitzmunicipality of Germany1.7 km
- Scheiditzmunicipality of Germany4 km
- Bobeckmunicipality of Germany5.1 km