--- title: "Plaue – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Plaue, Germany: Plaue is a town in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. Nearby: Ehrenburg, Heydaer Berg, Liebenstein Castle. Every way there…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/plaue" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/plaue.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bahn%C3%BCbergang_Zollbr%C3%BCck_Holztransport-20230708-RM-172941.jpg/1920px-Bahn%C3%BCbergang_Zollbr%C3%BCck_Holztransport-20230708-RM-172941.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Thuringia, Germany # Plaue Plaue is a town in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. ![Plaue](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bahn%C3%BCbergang_Zollbr%C3%BCck_Holztransport-20230708-RM-172941.jpg/1920px-Bahn%C3%BCbergang_Zollbr%C3%BCck_Holztransport-20230708-RM-172941.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Plaue · Ermell The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaue), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Ehrenburg The Ehrenburg is a castle overlooking the city of Plaue in Thuringia. 200 m · castle in Thuringia, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenburg_(Plaue%29) 2. Heydaer 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heydauer_Berg) 3. Liebenstein 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebenstein_Castle_(Thuringia%29) 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 Plaue **Airports:** Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 23 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 117 km · Kassel (KSF), 127 km\ **Stations:** Plaue (Thür) railway station, 700 m\ - Schkeuditz → Plaue 115 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €16–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-plaue) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Plaue) - Calden → Plaue 126 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-plaue) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Plaue) - Nuremberg → Plaue 148 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-plaue) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Plaue) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Plaue) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around If you plan to do a day trip the "Thüringen-Ticket" might just be what you are looking for. From [Wikivoyage: Thuringia](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Thuringia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 491 km 2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 578 km 3. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 598 km 4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 745 km 5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 858 km If you know how people move in Plaue – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cplaue&title=Plaue&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fplaue), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Plaue - [Liebenstein](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/liebenstein) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 3.4 km - [Gossel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gossel) municipality in Thuringia, Germany 4.1 km [The place page for Plaue](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/plaue) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/plaue, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt