Town in Thuringia, Germany

Meiningen

Meiningen is a town in the southern part of the German state of Thuringia.

Every way there

Erfurt → Meiningen
63 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €9–12
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Calden → Meiningen
117 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · €15–21
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Nuremberg → Meiningen
133 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €18–25
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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 Meiningen, 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 Meiningen has

YScheduled flightsErfurt (ERF), 61 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.

50.550°, 10.417°

It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 26,000 (2024). Meiningen is the capital and the largest town of the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district. From 1680 to 1918, Meiningen was the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen and from 1918 to 1920 of the Free State of Saxe-Meiningen.

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