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Village · Germany · Thuringia

# Schönbrunn

Schönbrunn is a village in the heart of the Fichtel Mountains in Bavaria, Germany.

![Schönbrunn](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Gloriette_Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_Wien.jpg/1920px-Gloriette_Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_Wien.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Schönbrunn · Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de

The place

Schönbrunn is a village in the heart of the Fichtel Mountains in Bavaria, Germany. Since 1975 it is part of the town Wunsiedel. It has about 1,400 inhabitants, including the village Furthammer. It was founded around 1200 as a small settlement near a castle. The oldest surviving building is the church, built around 1200. Schönbrunn has a number of small businesses and less than 10 farms.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nbrunn_(Fichtelgebirge%29), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Schönbrunn

4 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. Fichtelgebirge Nature Park The Fichtel Mountain Nature Park lies in the tri-border area of Saxony, the Czech Republic and Bavaria and has an area of 1,020 km2. It is maintained by the Naturpark Fichtelgebirge e. 3.8 km · nature park in Bavaria, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichtel_Mountain_Nature_Park)
2. Landschaftsgarten The Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth is a felsenmeer made of granite blocks several metres across and is part of the Großes Labyrinth Nature Reserve near Wunsiedel in Germany. For a long time its formation was believed to have been caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes. 2.6 km · cultural heritage monument D-4-79-169-270 (0) in Wunsiedel, Bavaria · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisenburg_Rock_Labyrinth)
3. Katharinenberg bei Wunsiedel Katharinenberg bei Wunsiedel is a mountain close to the town of Wunsiedel in Bavaria, Germany. 3 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharinenberg_bei_Wunsiedel)
4. Fichtelgebirge Museum The Fichtelgebirge Museum is a regional museum in Wunsiedel, formerly the 'capital' of the Sechsämterland and the county town in the Fichtel Mountains of central Germany. Formerly important trades, such as those of the whitesmith and the potter, were superseded during the 19th century by new industries. 2.7 km · museum in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichtelgebirge_Museum)

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 Schönbrunn

**Airports:** Karlovy Vary (KLV), 70 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 87 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 128 km\

- Nuremberg → Schönbrunn 121 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · €16–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-schonbrunn) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Sch%C3%B6nbrunn)
- Erfurt → Schönbrunn 71 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-schonbrunn) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Sch%C3%B6nbrunn)
- Schkeuditz → Schönbrunn 110 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-schonbrunn) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Sch%C3%B6nbrunn)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sch%C3%B6nbrunn)

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Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Schönbrunn

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

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 545 km
2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 602 km
3. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 671 km
4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 678 km
5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 837 km

If you know how people move in Schönbrunn – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cschonbrunn&title=Sch%C3%B6nbrunn&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fschonbrunn), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Schönbrunn

- [Wunsiedel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wunsiedel) municipality of Germany 2.3 km
- [Bad Alexandersbad](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bad-alexandersbad) municipality of Germany 3.6 km
- [Tröstau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/trostau) municipality of Germany 1.9 km
- [Leupoldsdorf](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leupoldsdorf) human settlement in Germany 2.4 km

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