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# Ilmenau

Ilmenau is a town in Thuringia, central Germany.

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## Every way there

- Schkeuditz → Ilmenau 121 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €17–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-ilmenau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Ilmenau)
- Nuremberg → Ilmenau 137 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-ilmenau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Ilmenau)
- Calden → Ilmenau 133 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-ilmenau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Ilmenau)

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 Ilmenau, 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 Ilmenau has

- Y Scheduled flights Erfurt (ERF), 33 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.

50.684°, 10.919°

It is the largest town within the Ilm district with a population of 38,600, while the district capital is Arnstadt. Ilmenau is located approximately 33 km south of Erfurt and 135 km north of Nuremberg within the Ilm valley at the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest at an elevation of 500 metres.

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


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