Gefell: Vacation Apartments and Holiday Homes

You can rent a vacation apartment in Gefell.

The municipality highlights the Mödlareuth Border Museum as a cultural heritage attraction that commemorates the division of Germany. This particularly appeals to travelers interested in contemporary German history.

Location

Gefell is located in the Thuringian Vogtland and in the Southeastern Thuringian Slate Mountains.

Culture

The municipality also highlights the Drei-Freistaaten-Stein as a landmark associated with the meeting point of Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia.

Ebersdorf Castle and Wolfstein are located in the area around Gefell.

In the wider regional surroundings of Gefell are the New Lobenstein Castle, the Old Lobenstein Castle, the Erika Fuchs House Museum of Comic Art and Language, the Dragon Cave, and the Sieglitzberg.

Landscape

The area around Gefell combines wooded areas with plateau-like ridges, gently undulating plains, shallow slopes, stream valleys, and grassland hollows.

The municipality is located at the tripoint of Thuringia, Saxony, and Bavaria; its territory extends westward toward the area around the Bleiloch Reservoir.

The Brandberg is also located in the immediate surroundings of Gefell.

Hiking

One variant of the approximately 326-kilometer-long Saale-Orla circular hiking route runs via Hirschberg, Gefell, and Tanna to Schleiz. This is particularly interesting for travelers who consider hiking a focus of their trip.

The Saale-Orla hiking route uses minor roads, predominantly forest and field paths, as well as paved paths.

Getting Around

Further along its route, federal highway B90 reaches the B2 near Gefell after running through Bad Lobenstein and the southern Saale-Orla district.

More local pages to compare: Moßbach, Ranis, Burgk, Langenorla, Bad Lobenstein, Gahma, Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Altengesees.

To the broader travel overview: Saale-Orla.