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# Eisenach

Eisenach is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, 50 kilometres west of Erfurt, 70 km southeast of Kassel and 150 km northeast of Frankfurt.

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## Every way there

- Erfurt → Eisenach 50 km · quickest by road, 59 min · €7–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-eisenach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Eisenach)
- Calden → Eisenach 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-eisenach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Eisenach)
- Büren → Eisenach 138 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €17–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/buren-to-eisenach) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%BCren&to=Eisenach)

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 Eisenach, 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 Eisenach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eisenach)

What Eisenach has

- Y Scheduled flights Erfurt (ERF), 45 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
- 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.

50.976°, 10.321°

It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia, and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, is near the former Inner German border. A major attraction is Wartburg castle, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.

Get in

## Getting to Eisenach

1. Eisenach

See

## Worth seeing

1. Wartburg Castle Auf der Wartburg 1 (From stop 3A at Eisenach bus station take Bus #3),.
2. Bachhaus A museum dedicated to the life and works of the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
3. Lutherhaus One of the oldest surviving half-timbered houses in Thuringia.
4. Stadtschloss

Eat

## Where to eat

Ristorante Michelangelo, Karlsplatz 21 (city centre), michelangelo-eisenach@outlook.de. Cafe Toccata, fax: +49 3691 88 35 25. Burger King.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenach) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Eisenach), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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