Bad Schandau

Bad Schandau is a spa town in Saxony, Germany. It also has a heritage railway.

Understand

Bad Schandau town council website

Get in

Map of Bad Schandau

Bad Schandau is served by the Elbe valley rail line connecting Dresden and Prague and therefore the two hourly Eurocity train stops there. There are also hourly S-Bahn train services from Dresden, which are slower but more frequent and accept regional travel passes. The main Bad Schandau railway station is some distance from the historic town centre and on the opposite side of the Elbe, and is linked to it by a half-hourly ferry or less-frequent and less direct bus services. Krippen railway station is almost opposite the historic town centre and is also linked to it by a ferry, but has a less frequent rail service.

By train

Long-distance EuroCity trains between Berlin and Prague call here, with a few trains per day continuing to Bratislava and Budapest, at least for the foreseeable future until at new bypass tunnel is scheduled to be completed in the early 2030s. Additionally, regional line S1 from Meißen via Dresden runs at the least once every hour. Bad Schandau is three stations away from the line's terminus, Schöna. Czech regional trainss from Decin also call here.

50.91891714.1399461 Bad Schandau railway station, Am Bahnhof 5. (updated May 2020)

By plane

From Prague airport (PRG^IATA) take the bus to the main station and from there the Eurocity.

From Dresden airport (DRS^IATA) take the S-Bahn to the main station and from there either the Eurocity or S-Bahn.

From Leipzig/Halle airport (LEJ^IATA) take the S-Bahn to Leipzig then regional train or IC(E) to Dresden main station and from there the S-Bahn.

From Wroclaw airport (WRO^IATA) take the train to Dresden main station and from there the S-Bahn.

By boat

During the summer season there are tourist steam boats from Dresden and several other places along the Elbe. They take longer than the train ride and are more expensive, but the views of the river and the Elbe valley are spectacular

By car

By bus

Get around

All information about public transport is available at the homepage of the Public transport authority Upper Elbe (VVO).

See

50.92881114.24351 Lichtenhain Waterfall. A waterfall which can be "pushed"!

Do

Kirnitzsch Valley Railway (Kirnitzschtalbahn). A metre-gauge heritage tram to Lichtenhain Waterfall.
Bad Schandau Elevator (Personenaufzug). Germany's only public elevator. (updated Nov 2022)

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Go next

Königstein has a 16th-century mountain fortress, one of the biggest in Europe (7 km to the west, 3 minutes by train)
Rathen has a mountain theatre and the spectacular Bastei rock formation (8 km to the northeast, 9 minutes by train)
Děčín, Czech Republic (23 km to the south, 27 minutes by train)

Routes through Bad Schandau

Dresden ←

Hamburg

Prague

→ Děčín → Prague

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