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# Plaue

Plaue is a town in the Ilm-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany.

[Plan a trip to Plaue](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Plaue) [From Schkeuditz](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Plaue)

## Every way there

- Schkeuditz → Plaue 115 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · €16–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-plaue) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Plaue)
- Calden → Plaue 126 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-plaue) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Plaue)
- Nuremberg → Plaue 148 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · €19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-plaue) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Plaue)

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 Plaue, 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 Plaue](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/plaue)

What Plaue has

- Y Scheduled flights Erfurt (ERF), 23 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: Erfurt, 24 km.

50.779°, 10.899°

It is situated on the river Gera, 11 km north of Ilmenau, and 8 km southwest of Arnstadt. The former municipality Neusiß was merged into Plaue in January 2019. Plaue station lies on the Neudietendorf–Ritschenhausen railway.

How locals move

## Getting around Plaue the local way

- Get around If you plan to do a day trip the "Thüringen-Ticket" might just be what you are looking for.

From [Wikivoyage: Thuringia](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Thuringia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-05.

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


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