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Town in Bavaria, Germany

Wunsiedel

Wunsiedel is the seat of the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in northeast Bavaria, Germany.

Wunsiedel
Wunsiedel · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wunsiedel is the seat of the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in northeast Bavaria, Germany. The town is the birthplace of poet Jean Paul. It also became known for its annual Luisenburg Festival and the Rudolf Hess Memorial March held there by Neo-Nazis until 2005.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wunsiedel

4 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
    Kösseine

    The Kösseine is a massif in the High Fichtel mountains in Germany, lying in northeast Bavaria south of Wunsiedel. The highest elevation of this granite massif is the summit of the Große Kösseine, 939 m above sea level.

    4.2 km · mountain in Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Landschaftsgarten

    The Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth is a felsenmeer made of granite blocks several metres across and is part of the Großes Labyrinth Nature Reserve near Wunsiedel in Germany. For a long time its formation was believed to have been caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes.

    1.8 km · cultural heritage monument D-4-79-169-270 (0) in Wunsiedel, Bavaria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Katharinenberg bei Wunsiedel

    Katharinenberg bei Wunsiedel is a mountain close to the town of Wunsiedel in Bavaria, Germany.

    1.9 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fichtelgebirge Museum

    The Fichtelgebirge Museum is a regional museum in Wunsiedel, formerly the 'capital' of the Sechsämterland and the county town in the Fichtel Mountains of central Germany. Formerly important trades, such as those of the whitesmith and the potter, were superseded during the 19th century by new industries.

    2.7 km · museum in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wunsiedel

Airports
Karlovy Vary (KLV), 67 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 89 km · Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 130 km
Stations
Marktredwitz railway station, 4.9 km
  • Nuremberg → Wunsiedel
    93 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · €12–17
  • Erfurt → Wunsiedel
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €20–28
  • Schkeuditz → Wunsiedel
    152 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · €21–29
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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 Wunsiedel. 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

    546 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    605 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    672 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    678 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    835 km

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