Town in Thuringia, Germany

Bürgel

Bürgel is a town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany.

Every way there

Erfurt → Bürgel
51 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €6–9
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Schkeuditz → Bürgel
60 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · €7–10
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Dresden → Bürgel
139 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €16–23
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Bürgel, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Bürgel has

YScheduled flightsErfurt (ERF), 56 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

50.941°, 11.754°

It is situated 12 km east of Jena. It contains the Benedictine monastery of Bürgel Abbey.

How locals move

Getting around Bürgel the local way

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.

From Wikivoyage: Jena, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: kaʁstn Disk/Cat (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.