Tautenburg
Tautenburg is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany.

Tautenburg is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany. It is home to the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory.
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Worth seeing in and around Tautenburg
One place 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.
- 01Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
The Karl Schwarzschild Observatory is a German astronomical observatory in Tautenburg near Jena, Thuringia. It is owned and operated as under public law by the State of Thuringia.
1.2 km · observatory · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tautenburg
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 53 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 60 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 122 km
- Erfurt → Tautenburg48 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €6–9
- Schkeuditz → Tautenburg57 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · €7–10
- Dresden → Tautenburg142 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €17–24
- 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 Tautenburg
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 Tautenburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor day trips within the state, the Thüringen-Ticket (€35-€67) offers good value for groups, covering all regional transport in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.
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Next door to Tautenburg
Tautenburg is 60 km from Leipzig, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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