Köthen

Worth seeing in and around Köthen

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
   Bach House

   The Bach House is an historic house museum dedicated to composer Johann Sebastian Bach, in Köthen, Germany. Bach lived at two addresses during his stay in Köthen, while he was working for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.

   200 m · building in Köthen, Germany · Wikipedia
2. 02
   St. Jakob

   Church building in Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

   0 m · 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.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   St. Agnus (church), Stiftstraße
2. 02
   Schloss Köthen
3. 03
   Hallescher Turm
4. 04
   Magdeburger Turm
5. 05
   Rathaus

From Wikivoyage: Köthen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   Brauhaus Köthen

   Lachsfang 1, fax: +49 3496 309872, info@brauhauskoethen.de.

2. 02
   Caruso

   Marktplatz 5,.

3. 03
   Filou

   Ludwigstraße 53.

4. 04
   Restaurant Labyrinth

   Krähenbergstraße 5,.

5. 05
   Restaurant Leipziger Eck

   24, fax: +49 3496 303517, info@leipziger-eck.de.

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Getting to Köthen

Airports

Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 41 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 111 km · Berlin Brandenburg (BER), 125 km

Stations

Köthen railway station, 1 km

• Schkeuditz → Köthen

  43 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · €6–8
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• Erfurt → Köthen

  108 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €14–19
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• Berlin → Köthen

  131 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €16–22
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