Plaue
Plaue is a town in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany.
Plaue is a town in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Gera, 11 km north of Ilmenau, and 8 km southwest of Arnstadt. The former municipality Neusiß was merged into Plaue in January 2019. Plaue station lies on the Neudietendorf–Ritschenhausen railway.
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Worth seeing in and around Plaue
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.
- 01Ehrenburg
The Ehrenburg is a castle overlooking the city of Plaue in Thuringia.
200 m · castle in Thuringia, Germany · Wikipedia - 02Heydaer Berg
The Heydaer Berg between Plaue and Ilmenau in the Thuringian county of Ilm-Kreis is a hill ridge of the Reinsberge which reaches its highest point at the Halskappe which is 605.4 m above sea level,, shortly before the better known Reinsburg.
4.1 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 03Liebenstein Castle
Liebenstein Castle is a castle in Liebenstein in the Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. It was originally built in the 12th century by the counts of Käfernburg; the castellans were the counts' ministeriales, the lords of Liebenstein.
3.4 km · castle in Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Plaue
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 23 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 117 km · Kassel (KSF), 127 km
- Stations
- Plaue (Thür) railway station, 700 m
- Schkeuditz → Plaue115 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €16–23
- Calden → Plaue126 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €16–22
- Nuremberg → Plaue148 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €19–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Plaue
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 Plaue. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIf you plan to do a day trip the "Thüringen-Ticket" might just be what you are looking for.
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Next door to Plaue
- Liebensteinmunicipality in Thuringia, Germany3.4 km
- Gosselmunicipality in Thuringia, Germany4.1 km