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Train Routes and Ferry Ports in Germany
Århus,
Fredericia
Westerland Copenhagen Ostseebad
(Sylt) Flensburg Stralsund Binz
Niebüll Puttgarden
0 km 75 Kiel Warnemünde Rostock Seebad
Neumünster Heringsdorf
0 miles 75
Lübeck
Schwerin Pasewalk
Norddeich Hamburg Neustrelitz Szczecin
Mole
Ludwigslust
Emden
Oldenburg Wittenberge
Emden
Außenhafen Bremen Uelzen Stendal Frankfurt
Berlin (Oder)
Potsdam
Amsterdam Wolfsburg Warsaw,
Schipol Bad Hanover Poznán
Bentheim Osnabrück Magdeburg
Brunswick Lutherstadt
Rheine Wittenberg Krakow
Amsterdam Münster Bielefeld Hildesheim
Recklinghausen Hamm Paderborn Halle (Saale) Cottbus
Gelsenkirchen Dortmund Göttingen Leipzig Riesa Görlitz
Oberhausen Bochum Nordhausen
Duisburg Hagen Kassel Weimar Dresden Wroclaw
Düsseldorf Flughafen Essen Wuppertal Eisenach
Düsseldorf Solingen Bebra Erfurt Jena
Cologne Prague,
Aachen Montabaur Saalfeld Brno,
Vienna,
Bonn Limburg Giessen Fulda Budapest
Lichtenfels
Brussels, Koblenz Frankfurt am
Paris Main
Wiesbaden Aschaffenburg Bamberg
Mainz Würzburg Erlangen
Luxembourg Ffm Flughafen Darmstadt
Trier Nuremberg
Mannheim
Kaiserslautern Heidelberg Ansbach Regensburg
Saarbrücken Plattling
Karlsruhe Treuchtlingen Vienna,
Paris Aalen Ingolstadt Passau Linz
Key Baden-Baden
Stuttgart
Main railway lines Paris, Offenburg Augsburg Vienna, Graz,
Strasbourg Tübingen Ulm Munich Budapest,
Ferry port Salzburg Klagenfurt,
Memmingen Zagreb,
Friedrichshafen Ljubljana
Freiburg Kufstein
Singen Lindau Kempten Berchtesgaden
Konstanz Garmisch-
Basel Oberstdorf Partenkirchen Innsbruck, Verona,
Milan, Venice
Zürich, Interlaken, Bregenz,
Brig, Chur Zürich Zürich, Innsbruck
are entitled to a reduced-rate Arriving by Ferry north. There are many links
card. Non-European residents Visitors travelling to Germany by between German ports and
can buy a Eurail global, regional car from the UK will have to other countries. The main ferry
or country pass. decide which crossing to use terminals are Kiel, Lübeck and
Train tickets can be bought (unless using the Channel Rostock on the Baltic Sea coast.
and reservations made online, Tunnel). The crossings from Color Line runs a service from
at travel agents or at the Reise­ Dover to Ostend, in Belgium, Oslo (Norway) to Kiel and
zentrum (travel centre) at railway or to Calais, in France, are the Scandlines operate between
stations. It is simple to plan your shortest, while the Harwich to Rostock and Puttgarten to
journey yourself using this Hook of Holland route is useful Denmark. Scandlines also
facility. Seat reservations cost €5 for those travelling from further run ferries from Denmark.
per person for a return trip if
paid online with a ticket purchase,
or €9 at a ticket counter.
Advance booking is necessary
for ICE Sprinter and Thalys trains
(between Cologne and Aachen).
The sleeper CityNightLine trains
also require reservations. On all
other trains, reservations are
advisable when travelling at
peak times or in a group. Ship taking passengers to Helgoland
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