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Dortmund Warburg
Fulda Göttingen
Bad Arolsen
Diemel Werra
Korbach L A N D KASSEL Kaufungen
Meißner
754m
Eder-
W A L D E C K E R
Stausee Melsungen
FRITZLAR
Frankenberg Bad
Wildungen
Rotenburg
Fulda
Borken Eisenach
HESSEN Bebra
Bad Hersfeld
Lahn
Stadtallendorf
Siegen Fulda
MARBURG ALSFELD
Dillenburg
Altenburg
Herborn
Hünfeld
Lauterbach
The Messeturm in the Frankfurt fairgrounds, designed
by Helmut Jahn
WETZLAR GIESSEN Grünberg
Lahn Wetter V o g e l s b e r g FULDA Wasserkuppe
Taufstein
Koblenz WEILBURG 772m 950m Getting Around
Butzbach Nidda Neuhof The A7 motorway, cutting across Hesse in
LIMBURG Bad Kinzig a north–south direction, provides a fast
Nauheim transport link. Starting from Hanover, it
Schlüchtern runs through Göttingen, Kassel and Fulda
Schweinfurt to Würzburg in Bavaria. The A4 runs from
Großer Feldberg Dresden, via Weimar, to Bad Hersfeld. From
880m
Idstein BAD there visitors can take the A7 or the A5,
HOMBURG
T a u n u s Königstein towards Gießen, Bad Homburg, Frankfurt
Kelkheim
am Main and onwards to Darmstadt and
Hanau
Heidelberg. The fast ICE railway connects
KIEDRICH WIESBADEN FRANKFURT Main Kassel and Frankfurt am Main with Basel
Winkel ELTVILLE AM MAIN (in Switzerland), Stuttgart, Berlin and
Rüsselsheim Dreiech Munich. Frankfurt am Main has one of
Würzburg Europe’s largest airports, and there are
RÜDESHEIM also international flights from Kassel.
Gross-Gerau
DARMSTADT
0 kilometres 20
Pfungstadt 0 miles 20
Rhein
O d e n w a l d
MICHELSTADT
Worms Key
LORSCH Bensheim Motorway
Erbach
Motorway under construction
Major road
Viernheim
Minor road
Main railway
Heidelberg
Minor railway
Statue of the Brothers Grimm in Hanau Regional border
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