--- title: "Effelder – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Effelder, Germany: Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria). Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/effelder" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/effelder.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/D%C3%B6hlau-Effelderbr%C3%BCcke-1891.jpg/3840px-D%C3%B6hlau-Effelderbr%C3%BCcke-1891.jpg" --- River in Germany · Thuringia # Effelder Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria). ![Effelder](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/D%C3%B6hlau-Effelderbr%C3%BCcke-1891.jpg/3840px-D%C3%B6hlau-Effelderbr%C3%BCcke-1891.jpg) Effelder · Wikimedia Commons The place Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria). It flows into the Froschgrundsee, which is drained by the Itz, near Schönstädt. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effelder_(river%29), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Effelder One place 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. Froschgrundsee Froschgrundsee, also known as Schönstädtspeicher, is a retention basin to protect the city of Coburg in Bavaria from the flooding of the Itz, Effelder, and the Grümpen. It lies in the municipality of Rödental in Upper Franconia. 200 m · reservoir · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froschgrundsee) 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 Effelder **Airports:** Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 70 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 95 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 135 km\ - Erfurt → Effelder 62 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-effelder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Effelder) - Nuremberg → Effelder 207 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €27–38 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-effelder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Effelder) - Schkeuditz → Effelder 138 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-effelder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Effelder) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Effelder) 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 Effelder 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 Effelder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next Bamberg and Nuremberg are both good destinations for a day trip from Coburg. From [Wikivoyage: Coburg](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Coburg), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 527 km 2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 539 km 3. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 643 km 4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 699 km 5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 872 km If you know how people move in Effelder – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ceffelder&title=Effelder&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Feffelder), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Effelder - [Frankenblick](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/frankenblick) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 3.1 km - [Korberoth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korberoth) human settlement 3.6 km [The place page for Effelder](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/effelder) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/effelder, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt