Excursions
within a radius of 80 km
- Jena: Zeiss-Planetarium (planetarium), botanical garden
- Weimar: Deutsches Nationaltheater (theatre and musical organisation), Schloss (Belvedere Palace) und Park Belvedere (Belvedere Park), Goethe-Nationalmuseum (museum), Bauhausmuseum (museum)
- Erfurt: cathedral, Altstadt mit Krämerbrücke (old town and Merchants' bridge)
- Dornburg: Dornburger Schlösser (palaces)
- Naumburg: cathedral
- Uhlstädt: rafting museum
- Rudolstadt: Heidecksburg (palace), Bauernhäuser (historical houses)
- Bad Blankenburg: Burg Greifenstein (castle)
- Saalfeld: Feengrotten (Fairy Grottoes) , town hall, castle
- Lehesten: Schiefermuseum (museum of slate)
- Wurzbach: Heinrichshütte (Look foundry)
- Blankenstein: starting point Rennsteig
- Plauen: Spitzenmuseum (museum), Weberhäuser (historical houses)
- Reichenbach: Göltzschtalbrücke (Göltzsch Viaduct, the largest brick-built bridge in the world)
- Zwickau: August Horch Museum (museum), Robert-Schumann-Haus (house of Robert Schumann)
- Altenburg: Schloss (palace), Skatbrunnen (fountain)
- Zeitz: Schloss Moritzburg (palace), Dom (cathetral)
- Leipzig: Zoo, Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas Church), main station, Messe (fair), Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument to the Battle of the Nations)