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Town in Hesse, Germany

Erbach

Erbach is a town and the district seat of the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany.

Erbach
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The place

Erbach is a town and the district seat of the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany. It has a population of around 14,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Erbach

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
    Erbach Palace

    Erbach Palace is a palace in Erbach im Odenwald and the seat of the Count of Erbach. It was originally built in the Middle Ages, but most of the buildings today date back to the early 18th century.

    300 m · a palace in Erbach im Odeneald · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    German Ivory Museum Erbach

    The German Ivory Museum Erbach is a museum in Erbach im Odenwald, Germany. It was founded in 1966, but the collection was started by Count Francis I in the late 18th century.

    600 m · museum in 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 Erbach

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 52 km · Stuttgart (STR), 109 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 118 km
  • Frankfurt am Main → Erbach
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · €7–10
  • Stuttgart → Erbach
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €10–14
  • Rheinmünster → Erbach
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €16–22
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Erbach

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 Erbach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf 2-5 people are doing a day trip from Darmstadt, then a group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) will be much more economical than buying single trip tickets.

From Wikivoyage: Michelstadt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    415 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    489 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    617 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    742 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    752 km

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

Around it

Next door to Erbach

Erbach is 43 km from Mannheim, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Michelstadttown in Hesse, Germany2.3 km
  • Odenwalddistrict in Hesse, Germany600 m
  • Mossautalmunicipality in Odenwaldkreis in Hesse, Germany4.9 km
  • Haisterbachmunicipal district of Erbach in Odenwaldkreis in Hesse, Germany3.7 km
  • Günterfürstmunicipal district of Erbach in Odenwaldkreis, Germany2.8 km