Eisenach
Eisenach is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, 50 kilometres west of Erfurt, 70 km southeast of Kassel and 150 km northeast of Frankfurt.
Eisenach is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, 50 kilometres west of Erfurt, 70 km southeast of Kassel and 150 km northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia, and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, is near the former Inner German border. A major attraction is Wartburg castle, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
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Worth seeing in and around Eisenach
6 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.
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- 02
- 03Lutherhaus Eisenach
Museum and historic domicile of Martin Luther in Thuringia, Germany
300 m · Wikipedia - 04
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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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Wartburg Castle
Auf der Wartburg 1 (From stop 3A at Eisenach bus station take Bus #3),.
- 02Bachhaus
A museum dedicated to the life and works of the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
- 03Lutherhaus
One of the oldest surviving half-timbered houses in Thuringia.
- 04Stadtschloss
From Wikivoyage: Eisenach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Ristorante Michelangelo, Karlsplatz 21 (city centre), michelangelo-eisenach@outlook.de. Cafe Toccata, fax: +49 3691 88 35 25. Burger King.
From Wikivoyage: Eisenach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Eisenach
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 45 km · Kassel (KSF), 81 km · Paderborn Lippstadt (PAD), 138 km
- Stations
- Eisenach Central Station, 800 m · Wutha railway station, 5.7 km
- Erfurt → Eisenach50 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €7–10
- Calden → EisenachTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Büren → Eisenach138 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €17–24
- 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 Eisenach
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 Eisenach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Eisenach
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- constituency for the Bundestag election Eisenach – Wartburgkreis – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreisfederal electoral district of Germany4.8 km