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Low mountain range in Germany

Odenwald

The Odenwald is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Odenwald
Odenwald · Daniel Kraft
The place

The Odenwald is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Odenwald

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. 01
    Krähberg

    Krähberg is a hill in the Odenwald range in Hesse, Germany.

    300 m · Odenwald mountain 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 Odenwald

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 59 km · Stuttgart (STR), 100 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 112 km
  • Frankfurt am Main → Odenwald
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Stuttgart → Odenwald
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · €10–13
  • Rheinmünster → Odenwald
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €7–10
  • 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 Odenwald

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf 2-5 people are doing a day trip from Darmstadt, then a group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) will be much more economical than buying single trip tickets.

From Wikivoyage: Michelstadt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    407 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    497 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    609 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    745 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    760 km

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

Around it

Next door to Odenwald

Odenwald is 41 km from Mannheim, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Beerfeldentown and municipal district of Oberzent in Odenwaldkreis, Germany3.6 km