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# Effelder

Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria).

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## Every way there

- Erfurt → Effelder 62 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-effelder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Effelder)
- Nuremberg → Effelder 207 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €27–38 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-effelder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Effelder)
- Schkeuditz → Effelder 138 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-effelder) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Effelder)

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

[Read the note on Effelder](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/effelder)

What Effelder has

- Y Scheduled flights Erfurt (ERF), 70 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Bamberg, 51 km.

50.352°, 11.029°

It flows into the Froschgrundsee, which is drained by the Itz, near Schönstädt.

How locals move

## Getting around Effelder the local way

- Go next Bamberg and Nuremberg are both good destinations for a day trip from Coburg.

From [Wikivoyage: Coburg](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Coburg), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effelder_(river%29), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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