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Ortsteil of Geratal in Thuringia, Germany

# Geschwenda

Geschwenda is a village and a former municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

![Geschwenda](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Hanftal_Geschwenda.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

Geschwenda · Michael Sander

The place

Geschwenda is a village and a former municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the municipality Geratal. The Olympian Bruno Bartholome was born here.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwenda), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Geschwenda

One place 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. 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. 900 m · arch bridge in Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirrbachtalbr%C3%BCcke)

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 Geschwenda

**Airports:** Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 29 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 125 km · Kassel (KSF), 126 km\

- Schkeuditz → Geschwenda 122 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-geschwenda) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Geschwenda)
- Calden → Geschwenda 125 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-geschwenda) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Geschwenda)
- Nuremberg → Geschwenda 143 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-geschwenda) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Geschwenda)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Geschwenda)

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Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Geschwenda

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 Geschwenda. 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. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 490 km
2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 571 km
3. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 604 km
4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 739 km
5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 853 km

If you know how people move in Geschwenda – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgeschwenda&title=Geschwenda&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgeschwenda), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Geschwenda

- [Elgersburg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/elgersburg) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 3.6 km
- [Frankenhain](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/frankenhain) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 3.9 km
- [Geraberg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/geraberg) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 2 km
- [Geratal](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/geratal) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 2.2 km

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