Plothen: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The wider Plothen Ponds area can be reached from the A9 Berlin–Munich motorway via the Triptis, Dittersdorf or Schleiz exits. You can rent a holiday apartment in Plothen. The area is used for cycling tours, including a listed 96.5 km road cycling loop through the pond landscape.

Landscape

Plothen is the main town of the Plothen Ponds area.

Plothen is connected with the Thuringian Forest travel region and has a predominantly rural structure with extensive areas of vegetation and water.

The wider Plothen Ponds landscape covers approximately 75 km² on a plateau of the Thuringian Slate Mountains. The pond system comprises around 600 remaining ponds, which were originally created for fish farming.

Culture

Plothen is home to the Protestant parish of St. Trinitatis; it belongs to the Dittersdorf parish area in the Schleiz church district. This provides culturally interested travellers with a specific ecclesiastical connection to the town.

Plothen's landmark is a roughly 300-year-old pile house in the Hausteich, the largest of the Plothen Ponds.

In the wider regional surroundings of Plothen are Ebersdorf Castle, the New Castle of Lobenstein, the Old Castle of Lobenstein and Leuchtenburg Castle.

The surroundings of Plothen also include the parish church of St. Jodocus in Rödersdorf, as well as Kapfenberg, Amtsberg and Geislaberg.

Hiking

A signposted 1000 Ponds Circular Trail is listed as a hiking route for the Plothen area; the listed route is 8.3 km long.

Cuisine

Carp from the Plothen pond area and the Schleiz Uplands is traditionally prepared in a strongly seasoned root vegetable broth and served as a regional speciality.

More local pages: Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Langenorla, Neustadt an der Orla, Triptis, Peuschen, Dittersdorf, Lausnitz bei Neustadt an der Orla, Moßbach.

As a next step, you can check holiday apartments for your stay in Plothen.

To the higher-level travel overview: Saale-Orla.