Meiningen
Meiningen is a town in the southern part of the German state of Thuringia.
Meiningen is a town in the southern part of the German state of Thuringia. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 26,000 (2024). Meiningen is the capital and the largest town of the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district. From 1680 to 1918, Meiningen was the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen and from 1918 to 1920 of the Free State of Saxe-Meiningen.
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Worth seeing in and around Meiningen
3 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.
- 01Meiningen State Theatre
The Staatstheater Meiningen, also called the Meiningen Theatre, is a four-division theater in the Thuringian town of Meiningen, Germany. The theater was founded in 1831 and was called ″Meininger Hoftheater″ until 1920.
2.6 km · theater in Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Elisabethenburg Palace
Elisabethenburg Palace is a Baroque palace located on the northwestern edge of Meiningen in Germany. Until 1918 it was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen.
2.3 km · castle in city of Meiningen, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Goetz-Höhle
The Goetz Cave is a fissure cave in Thuringia, Germany. It is located on the western outskirts of Meiningen on the Dietrichsberg in the middle of the mountain slope towards the Werra.
1.8 km · cave in Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Meiningen
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 61 km · Kassel (KSF), 120 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 126 km
- Stations
- Meiningen railway station, 2.6 km · Ritschenhausen railway station, 4.2 km · Grimmenthal railway station, 3 km
- Erfurt → Meiningen63 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €9–12
- Calden → Meiningen117 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · €15–21
- Nuremberg → Meiningen133 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Meiningen
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 Meiningen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Meiningen
- Ellingshausenmunicipality of Germany4 km
- Untermaßfeldmunicipality of Germany2.1 km
- Ritschenhausenmunicipality of Germany4.5 km
- Sülzfelddistrict of Meiningen5.2 km
- Obermaßfeld-Grimmenthalmunicipality of Germany2.9 km
- Einhausenmunicipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany3.9 km