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Town in Thuringia, Germany

Bürgel

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

Bürgel
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Karl 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
  2. 02
    Bürgel 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

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.

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Getting to Bürgel

Airports
Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 56 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 63 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 116 km
  • Erfurt → Bürgel
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €6–9
  • Schkeuditz → Bürgel
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · €7–10
  • Dresden → Bürgel
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €16–23
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Jena, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    530 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    571 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    622 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    773 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    917 km

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

Around it

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