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# Zittau

Zittau is a city in the German state of Saxony, belonging to the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district.

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## Every way there

- Dresden → Zittau 77 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dresden-to-zittau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dresden&to=Zittau)
- Berlin → Zittau 205 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · €30–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/berlin-to-zittau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Berlin&to=Zittau)
- Schkeuditz → Zittau 189 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €25–34 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-zittau) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Zittau)

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 Zittau, 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 Zittau has

- Y Scheduled flights Dresden (DRS), 77 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.

50.896°, 14.807°

Get in

## Getting to Zittau

The nearest airport is in Dresden (DRS IATA). Take S-Bahn line 2 to Dresden-Klotzsche and continue by train. Deutsche Bahn RegionalExpress 2 from Dresden to Zittau via Bischofswerda takes approximately 1½ hours. The RegionalBahn 61 takes about 2. The Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn from Cottbus and Görlitz takes 2 hours to Zittau. The Vogtlandbahn from Liberec gets to Zittau station in half an hour.

See

## Worth seeing

In the old town centre the Marktplatz (market square) with its Rathaus (city hall) while in the Neustadt (new town) with Marstall (royal stables) there are three fountains on the square. The Marstall was built in 1511 as a salt-house.

1. Johanniskirche Church in the town centre designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1837, with 60-m tower.
2. Weberkirche

Do

## Things to do

1. Tierpark Zittau The zoo covers 7 hectares and houses 400 animals from 70 species.
2. Weinaupark A landscape park in English style; Tierpark Zittau is in the park.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Alte Böhmische Stube Innere Weberstraße 11, 02763 Zittau, jogastro@seznam.cz.
2. Wirtshaus zum alten Sack Neustadt 47, 02763 Zittau, info@zumaltensack.de.
3. Dornspachhaus Historisches Wirtshaus + Ritterkeller Bautzner Straße 2, 02763 Zittau, info@Dornspachhaus.de.
4. Galeriecafé Ambiente Dr.-Brinitzer-Straße 10, 02763 Zittau, info@galeriecafe-ambiente.de.
5. Restaurant Cavallino Innere Weberstraße 6, 02763 Zittau, info@cavallino-online.de.

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


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