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Pinzberg

Pinzberg is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.

Pinzberg
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The place

Pinzberg is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pinzberg

6 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
    Wiesenthau Castle

    Schloss Wiesenthau stands on the northeastern edge of the eponymous municipality at the foot of the Ehrenbürg in northern Bavaria. The Renaissance building is a three-winged country house with 4 mid-16th century corner towers and the remains of an enceinte.

    2.9 km · cultural heritage monument D-4-74-175-7 (0) in Wiesenthau, Bavaria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stadtbefestigung

    Forchheim Fortress was laid out after the occupation of the town of Forchheim during the Second Margrave War by the Bishopric of Bamberg. Today about one third of the fortification works have survived and have been incorporated into the municipal parks.

    3.9 km · cultural heritage monument D-4-74-126-3 (0) in Forchheim, Bavaria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kellerberg

    Kellerberg is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany.

    3.8 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Schloss

    Schloss Kunreuth is situated on the northwestern edge of the eponymous village of Kunreuth which is part of the collective municipality of Gosberg in the county of Forchheim, in the province of Upper Franconia in the south German state of Bavaria.

    3.5 km · cultural heritage monument D-4-74-145-2 (0) in Kunreuth, Bavaria · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Q1011735

    The castle in Forchheim, also referred to as a royal palace or Kaiserpfalz, was an important urban castle under the bishops of Bamberg in the town of Forchheim in the south German state of Bavaria. The castle was built in the late 14th century.

    3.9 km · late medieval town castle in Forchheim, Bavaria, Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kersbach Castle

    Kersbach Castle is a levelled medieval motte castle in the area of Pfarrgartenstraße 1 in the village of Kersbach, in the borough of Forchheim in the eponymous county in the south German state of Bavaria. Nothing of the old motte castle has survived above ground.

    3.1 km · building in Forchheim, Upper Franconia, 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.

Go there

Getting to Pinzberg

Airports
Nuremberg (NUE), 22 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 141 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 142 km
Stations
Forchheim (Oberfr), 2.9 km
  • Erfurt → Pinzberg
    143 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · €20–28
  • Munich → Pinzberg
    176 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · €21–29
  • Stuttgart → Pinzberg
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · €24–33
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pinzberg

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIf you stay longer a car or bike might be a good idea, especially for day trips that can't be done by train.
  • Go nextForchheim is the perfect entry point for (though not located inside of) Franconian Switzerland If you enjoy old towns Bamberg makes for a fascinating, and easy, day trip, as there is a direct train connection

From Wikivoyage: Forchheim, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    479 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    581 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    629 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    714 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    836 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pinzberg

Pinzberg is 27 km from Nuremberg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Forchheimcity in the Forchheim District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany3.7 km
  • Kunreuthmunicipality in the district of Forchheim, Bavaria, Germany3.7 km
  • Wiesenthaumunicipality in the district of Forchheim, Bavaria, Germany3 km
  • AnnafestFranconian folk festival held yearly in the town of Forchheim.3.8 km