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Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, is located between Frankfurt/Main and Leipzig and can be reached by airplane, car and train.

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By air


Erfurt has an International Airport, just 5 km and a fifteen minute drive from the city centre. For more information about the airport and an overview on the daily flight connections please visit: Airport Erfurt. The airport connects the city with the following direct destinations:

Regular Scheduled Flights:
Berlin, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn, Munich, Nürnberg & London-Stansted.

It should be taken into consideration that rather small planes operate between Erfurt and the above mentioned domestic airports.

Holiday Charter Flights:
Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Barcelona, Burgas, Catania, Faro, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Lamezia Terme, La Palma, Larnaca, Korfu, Lanzarote, Madeira, Madrid, Malaga, Mallorca, Malta, Rhodos, Rom, Sevilla, Teneriffa, Thessaloniki, Varna, Valencia.

We recommend the teams to use the above flight possibilities or to organise their own charter flights to Erfurt. Leipzig will serve as additional airport if the capacities to Erfurt are not sufficient.
The distance from Leipzig to Erfurt is approximately 100 km.
We kindly ask you to note that transport arrangements for teams and media representatives to the official hotels can only be organised from Erfurt and Leipzig airports.

By rail


Erfurt is an important rail junction in the centre of Germany, located at one of the major rail tracks: Frankfurt/M. - Erfurt - Halle/Leipzig - Berlin - Warsaw - Moscow. All trains stop, respectively start/end at Erfurt Hauptbahnhof (main train station), located directly on the edge of the old city centre.

By road


Erfurt can easily be reached by car on the motorways A4 (Eisenach-Dresden) and A71 and via the north-south link on the motorway A9 (Berlin-Munich). The distances from Erfurt to other major German
cities are:

Frankfurt - Erfurt 260 km
Berlin - Erfurt 240 km
Leipzig - Erfurt 140 km
Munich - Erfurt 320 km

For organisational reasons all federations shall inform the LOC about their travel plans (means of transportation, airport of destination, arrival/departure date) already with their preliminary entries. Hotel transfers will not be provided from any other airport than Erfurt and Leipzig.