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Schwäbisch Gmünd

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

Schwäbisch Gmünd
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The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Rechberg

    The Rechberg is one of the three Imperial mountains near Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

    4.9 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hohenrechberg 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
  3. 03
    St. 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 Gmünd
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · €5–8
  • Memmingen → Schwäbisch Gmünd
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €14–19
  • Nuremberg → Schwäbisch Gmünd
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · €16–22
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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.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    345 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    520 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    601 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    812 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    824 km

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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.