Schwäbisch Gmünd
Schwäbisch Gmünd is a city in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Schwäbisch Gmünd is a city in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. With a population of around 60,000, the city is the second largest in the Ostalb district and the whole East Württemberg region after Aalen. The city is a Große Kreisstadt since 1956, i.e. a chief city under district administration; it was the administrative capital of its own rural district until the local government reorganisation on 1 January 1973.
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Worth seeing in and around Schwäbisch Gmünd
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.
- 01Rechberg
The Rechberg is one of the three Imperial mountains near Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
4.9 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 02Hohenrechberg Castle
Hohenrechberg Castle is a ruined castle in Schwäbisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was built as a spur castle on the spur of the Hohenrechberg mountain, which forms together with the Hohenstaufen Mountain and Stuifen the Three Emperors Mountains, just a few kilometers next to the family seat Hohenstaufen castle of the Staufer dynasty.
5.1 km · Castle ruins in Germany · Wikipedia - 03St. Maria
The Church of St. Maria on the Hohenrechberg is a Catholic pilgrimage church on the Rechberg near Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.
4.8 km · church building in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Stuttgart Government Region, Bade-Württemberg, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Airports
- Stuttgart (STR), 44 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 96 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 121 km
- Stations
- Schwäbisch Gmünd station, 900 m
- Stuttgart → Schwäbisch Gmünd46 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · €5–8
- Memmingen → Schwäbisch Gmünd95 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €14–19
- Nuremberg → Schwäbisch Gmünd118 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · €16–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Schwäbisch Gmünd
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 Schwäbisch Gmünd. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Schwäbisch Gmünd
Schwäbisch Gmünd is 46 km from Stuttgart, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Waldstettenmunicipality in Germany, Baden-Württemberg4 km