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Municipality in Thuringia, Germany

Geratal

Geratal is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Geratal
Geratal · CTHOE
The place

Geratal is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of Frankenhain, Geraberg, Geschwenda, Gossel, Gräfenroda and Liebenstein. The name refers to the river Gera.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Geratal

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
    Liebenstein Castle

    Liebenstein Castle is a castle in Liebenstein in the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. It was originally built in the 12th century by the counts of Käfernburg; the castellans were the counts' ministeriales, the lords of Liebenstein.

    3.4 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wirrbachtalbrücke

    The Wirrbachtalbrücke is an arch bridge in Geschwenda, Thuringia, Germany. The bridge is located on the Bundesstraße 88, above the Wirrbach river of the Thuringian Forest.

    2 km · arch bridge 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 Geratal

Airports
Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 27 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 124 km · Kassel (KSF), 124 km
  • Schkeuditz → Geratal
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €18–25
  • Calden → Geratal
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · €16–22
  • Nuremberg → Geratal
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €19–26
  • 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 Geratal

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    488 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    573 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    602 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    741 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    852 km

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

Around it

Next door to Geratal