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Lahr

Lahr is a city in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany, approximately 50 km north of Freiburg im Breisgau, 40 km southeast of Strasbourg, and 95 km southwest of Karlsruhe.

Lahr
Lahr · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lahr is a city in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany, approximately 50 km north of Freiburg im Breisgau, 40 km southeast of Strasbourg, and 95 km southwest of Karlsruhe. It is the second largest city in Ortenau (district) after Offenburg, and serves as an intermediate economic centre for the cities and towns of Ettenheim, Friesenheim, Kappel-Grafenhausen, Kippenheim, Mahlberg, Meißenheim, Ringsheim, Rust, Schuttertal, Schwanau and Seelbach.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lahr

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
    Schuttern Abbey

    Schuttern Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Schuttern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

    5.5 km · abbey in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stadtmuseum Lahr

    The Lahr City Museum in Lahr/Schwarzwald was established in a former brick oven factory of the Ofen- und Tonwarenfabrik C.H. Liermann. It was officially inaugurated in 2018.

    700 m · municipal historical museum of Lahr, 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 Lahr

Airports
Strasbourg (SXB), 29 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 52 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 85 km
Stations
Lahr Airport, 4.9 km · Lahr (Schwarzw) railway station, 2.5 km · Regio-Ring, 4.6 km
  • Rheinmünster → Lahr
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · €6–9
  • Stuttgart → Lahr
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €17–23
  • Friedrichshafen → Lahr
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · €18–26
  • 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 Lahr

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you have a private plane or charter, Lahr airport is also an option.

From Wikivoyage: Europa-Park Resort, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    257 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    489 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    586 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    711 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    882 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lahr

  • Lahr/Schwarzwaldcity in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany800 m
  • Ettenheimmunicipality in Germany9.5 km
  • Kippenheimtown in Germany5.4 km
  • Mahlbergmunicipality in Germany6.6 km
  • Friesenheimmunicipality in the Ortenau district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany4.6 km
  • Seelbachmunicipality in the Ortenau district, Germany5.9 km