Skip to content
Mixroutes
Town in Saxony, Germany

Thum

Thum is a small town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, Germany.

Thum
Thum · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Thum is a small town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 5,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thum

2 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
    Drebach Observatory

    The Drebach Observatory is a planetarium and astronomical observatory owned and operated by the municipality of Drebach, Saxony, Germany. The planetarium uses a ZKP-3 Skymaster Zeiss projector.

    4.3 km · observatory in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Greifensteine

    The Greifensteine is a rock tower in the Ore Mountains, Germany, between the towns of Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Jahnsbach. The highest of the seven granite rocks reaches 731 m.

    2.9 km · mountain · Wikipedia

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 Thum

Airports
Karlovy Vary (KLV), 52 km · Dresden (DRS), 77 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 97 km
  • Dresden → Thum
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €10–14
  • Schkeuditz → Thum
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €12–16
  • Erfurt → Thum
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €16–23
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

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 Thum

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 Thum. 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
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    598 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    618 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    644 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    767 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    876 km

If you know how people move in Thum – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Thum

  • Ehrenfriedersdorfsmall city in Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany3.1 km
  • Geyermunicipality of Germany5.6 km
  • Drebachmunicipality of Germany4.7 km
  • Gelenaumunicipality of Germany4.6 km
  • Auerbachmunicipality in the Erzgebirgskreis of Germany3.2 km
  • Venusbergvillage in Saxony, Germany5.6 km