--- title: "Erbach – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Erbach, Germany: Erbach is a town and the district seat of the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany. Nearby: German Ivory Museum Erbach, Erbach…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/erbach" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/erbach.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flug_Frankfurt_Sofia_048.JPG/3840px-Flug_Frankfurt_Sofia_048.JPG" --- Town in Hesse, Germany # Erbach Erbach is a town and the district seat of the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany. ![Erbach](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flug_Frankfurt_Sofia_048.JPG/3840px-Flug_Frankfurt_Sofia_048.JPG) Erbach · Wikimedia Commons 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbach%2C_Hesse), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Ivory_Museum_Erbach) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbach_Palace) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-to-erbach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main&to=Erbach) - Stuttgart → Erbach 73 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/stuttgart-to-erbach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Stuttgart&to=Erbach) - Rheinmünster → Erbach 124 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rheinmunster-to-erbach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rheinm%C3%BCnster&to=Erbach) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Erbach) 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 in If 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 415 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 489 km 3. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 617 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 742 km 5. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 752 km If you know how people move in Erbach – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cerbach&title=Erbach&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ferbach), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Erbach Erbach is 43 km from [Mannheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mannheim), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Michelstadt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/michelstadt) town in Hesse, Germany 2.3 km - [Odenwald](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/odenwald) district in Hesse, Germany 600 m - [Mossautal](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mossautal) municipality in Odenwaldkreis in Hesse, Germany 4.9 km - [Haisterbach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/haisterbach) municipal district of Erbach in Odenwaldkreis in Hesse, Germany 3.7 km - [Günterfürst](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gunterfurst) municipal district of Erbach in Odenwaldkreis, Germany 2.8 km [The place page for Erbach](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/erbach) [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/erbach, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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