Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, Meiningen

Name: Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works
Address: Meiningen, Germany

#3 among attractions in Meiningen

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Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, Meiningen

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The Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works is a railway repair shop in Meiningen, Germany. It is owned by Deutsche Bahn and has specialised in the maintenance of museum steam locomotives since 1990, having extensive experience in maintaining steam engines. Today, customers of the factory include railway museums and museum railways from all over Europe. The factory is responsible for the safety inspections of all operational German steam locomotives. ()

Local name: Dampflokwerk Meiningen Coordinates: 50°34'55"N, 10°25'14"E

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Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Meininger Staatstheater, Elisabethenburg Palace, Schloss Landsberg, Johanniterburg Kühndorf.

0.6 miS
Concerts and shows, Theater
Meininger Staatstheater, Meiningen
17 min walk • The Meiningen Theatre, now called the Meininger Staatstheater, is a four-division theater in the Thuringian town of Meiningen. The theatre offers music theatre, drama, concerts and puppet theatre.
0.9 miSW
Museum, History museum, Baroque architecture
Elisabethenburg Palace, Meiningen
23 min walk • Elisabethenburg Palace is a Baroque palace located on the northwestern edge of Meiningen in Germany. Until 1918 it was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen.
1.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Schloss Landsberg, Meiningen
44 min walk • Landsberg Castle in Meiningen is a former pleasure palace of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen and housed a romantic first-class hotel until December 2013.
3.7 miNE
Forts and castles, Historical place, Architecture
Johanniterburg Kühndorf
94 min walk • The Johanniterburg Kühndorf, later also called Kühndorf Castle, was built in 1315 by the Order of St. John on the remains of a predecessor castle as a fort consisting of broad towers and was expanded by the Counts of Henneberg to become their last...
3.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Dolmar
101 min walk • The Dolmar is a 739.6 m above sea level extinct volcano of the Werra Geuplatten about 2 km northwest of Kühndorf in the Thuringian district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen.
2.2 miSE
Memorial
Gedenkstein Fritz Scherer, Meiningen
58 min walk • Fritz Scherer was an anarchist migrant worker and bookbinder.
2.3 miSE
Hiking, Alpine hut
Bakuninhütte, Meiningen
58 min walk • The Bakunin Hut is a cultural monument of anarcho-syndicalism near Meiningen on the 498 meter high mountain Hohe Maas. Named after Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian revolutionary, anarchist and opponent of Karl Marx, the hut was built from 1926 by the...