Elterlein
Elterlein is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Elterlein is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, 10 km west of Annaberg-Buchholz. It consists of the divisions Elterlein, Hermannsdorf and Schwarzbach.
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Worth seeing in and around Elterlein
5 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.
- 01Spiegelwald
Spiegelwald is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany.
5.2 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Schatzenstein
Schatzenstein is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is located northwest of Elterlein at the municipal boundary to Zwönitz and Grünhain-Beierfeld on a local watershed which divides the drainage basins of Zwönitz river and Schwarzwasser.
2.4 km · mountain in Saxony, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Knochen
The Knochen is a monadnock between the village of Raschau-Markersbach and the town of Schwarzenberg in the Saxon part of the Ore Mountains in southeastern Germany. Its summit lies 551.4 metres above sea level.
5.4 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia - 04Markersbach viaduct
The Markersbach viaduct is an historic railway bridge located in Raschau-Markersbach, Germany. Also known as the 'Matchstick Bridge', it is 236.5 m in length and 36.5 m in height.
4.6 km · railway bridge in Saxony, Germany · Wikipedia - 05Grünhain Abbey
Grünhain Abbey in Grünhain in the Saxon Ore Mountains, which was built and run by Cistercians, existed from 1230 to 1536. Today only its ruins remain.
4 km · Cistercian monastery · Wikipedia
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Getting to Elterlein
- Airports
- Karlovy Vary (KLV), 42 km · Dresden (DRS), 89 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 104 km
- Dresden → Elterlein81 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €11–16
- Schkeuditz → Elterlein102 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €13–18
- Erfurt → Elterlein136 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €16–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Elterlein
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 Elterlein. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Elterlein
- Grünhain-Beierfeldtown in Saxony4.9 km
- Scheibenbergtown in Saxony5.1 km
- Raschau-Markersbachmunicipality of Germany5 km
- Raschauhuman settlement in Saxony, Germany5.4 km
- Markersbachhuman settlement in Germany4.8 km