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Town · Germany · Thuringia

# Weimar

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Weimar

10 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. Duchess Anna Amalia Library Library in Germany 300 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Anna_Amalia_Library)
2. Classical Weimar UNESCO World Heritage Site in Weimar, Germany 900 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Weimar_(World_Heritage_Site%29)
3. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University 600 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus_University_of_Weimar)
4. Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar Theatre and orchestra in Weimar, Germany 300 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Nationaltheater_und_Staatskapelle_Weimar)
5. Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau Joint World Heritage Site, comprising six separate sites associated with Bauhaus art school, designated in 1996, extended 2017 600 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus_and_its_Sites_in_Weimar,_Dessau_and_Bernau)
6. Schloss Weimar Art museum and palace in Weimar, Germany 200 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Weimar)
7. Schloss Belvedere Palace and garden ensemble in Weimar, Germany 3.8 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Belvedere,_Weimar)
8. Goethe House Building in Weimar, Germany 300 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe_House_(Weimar%29)
9. St. Peter und Paul Church in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany 100 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter_und_Paul,_Weimar)
10. Nietzsche Archive Building in Weimar, Germany 1.2 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche_Archive)

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 Weimar

**Airports:** Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 26 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 80 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 141 km\
**Stations:** Weimar railway station, 1.3 km\

- Schkeuditz → Weimar 78 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · €12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-weimar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Weimar)
- Calden → Weimar 143 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-weimar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Weimar)
- Nuremberg → Weimar 171 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · €25–35 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-weimar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Weimar)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Weimar)

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 Weimar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in The nearest airport () is in Erfurt and has been dubbed "Erfurt - Weimar airport" for tourism purposes but so far it has attracted mostly outbound holiday charter services.

From [Wikivoyage: Weimar](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Weimar), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 503 km
2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 570 km
3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 611 km
4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 772 km
5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 887 km

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

Around it

## Next door to Weimar

- [Vollersroda](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vollersroda) municipality of Germany 4.8 km
- [Umpferstedt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/umpferstedt) municipality of Germany 5.9 km
- [Kleinobringen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kleinobringen) municipality of Germany 5.9 km
- [Kromsdorf](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kromsdorf) municipality of Germany 3.7 km
- [Großobringen](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gro-obringen) municipality of Germany 5.7 km

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