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Erfurt is the capital of the German state of Thuringia (Thüringen). It is also its largest city and a major transportation hub.

Erfurt Halal Travel Guide

Erfurt, Krämerbrücke (6342750117) - |Krämerbrücke, one of the few remaining bridges in the world that have inhabited buildings.

With over 200,000 inhabitants today, Erfurt was an important trading town during the Middle Ages, and has many beautiful old buildings and parks. Its university was one of the oldest in Germany, before it shut down early in the 19th century, but a refounded incarnation dating to just after reunification claims the old and august tradition.

• Erfurt Tourism Board - Touristeninformation | Benediktsplatz 1 ☎ +49 361 66400

Travel to Erfurt

Church complex - |View over Erfurt with Gothic Church and Serverichurch

By car

Erfurt lies on the intersection of two motorways (Autobahnen): A4 and A71.
Distances on the motorways to some cities: Berlin 300 km, Leipzig 150 km, Dresden 215 km, Kassel 150 - 200 kilometers depending on route, Frankfurt 260 km, Munich (München) 400 km, Hanover 220 km

Travel by train to Erfurt

• Erfurt Hauptbahnhof - main train station | While the station itself is a fairly run-of-the-mill affair for a city of its size with the usual shopping and fast food options, it is one of the central hubs of Germany's high-speed rail system. Here a high-speed line inaugurated in December 2015 linking Erfurt and Leipzig at a maximum speed of 300 km/h and thus slashing travel durations along the entire Frankfurt-Dresden corridor intersects with the main North-South spine in Eastern Germany with a new and upgraded line from Erfurt to Nürnberg similarly allowing 300 km/h at its heart. Starting with the schedule change 2017, Erfurt is one of only two or three intermediate stops of "ICE Sprinter" from Frankfurt or Munich to Berlin and most of Germany is accessible in journey times easily competitive with flying. Regional trains are timed to reach the long distance lines and some are explicitly set up to enable service to some secondary cities that lost ICE service with the rise of the Erfurt hub. Even if you connect through Erfurt, trains usually wait for one another in the case of small delays and most connections are same-platform. Even the "regular" ICE southward has not stops between Erlangen and Erfurt.

There are hourly ICE connections with Leipzig (45 minutes), Nürnberg (1:20 hrs), Berlin (1:45–2 hrs), Frankfurt (2:10 hrs), Munich (2.5 hrs), Stuttgart (3:40 hrs) and Hamburg (under 4 hrs), once in two hours with Dresden (2 hrs).

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• Erfurt-Weimar airport IATA Flight Code: ERF As of August 2022 operations are modest and mainly cater to people from Thuringia flying to Mediterranean tourist destinations, in part because fast train connections make domestic Flights from ERF rather pointless. Tram line number 4 offers a convenient connection to the downtown and the main station in about 25 minutes (at a 20-minutes interval).

The most useful alternative is Germany's most frequented airport at Frankfurt (IATA Flight Code: FRA), easily reachable by train within 2.5 to three hours. Other nearby airports are at Leipzig/Halle (LEJ; just over an hour by train), Nürnberg (1:45 hrs) and Berlin (TXL or SXF; 2.5 hrs). Munich Airport—Germany's second major airport—is about 3.5 hours from Erfurt by train.

Get Around

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The downtown is quite compact so walking is often the best way to explore the city.

Regular tram services cover much of the city; they are supplemented by buses. On most sections trams have service intervals of at least every 10 minutes during daytime, becoming less frequent in the evenings. Night buses are available throughout the night after midnight; these run once or twice every hour and meet at the very heart of the downtown (Anger) or depart from the main station (within walking distance from Anger).

What to see in Erfurt

Erfurt Anger 668-69-vfs - House in the street Anger Nr. 23: Papenbreerhaus

Much of Erfurt's charm is found in its narrow streets, many of which are pedestrianized, with their beautiful old houses, green areas and little bridges across the Gera river and the Stadtpark and the Nordpark on different sides of the downtown.

In the tourist office you can buy a small guidebook in one of several languages that leads you through the city along the main sights.

• Dom - Gothic Church

• Severikirche - Church | One of the most important gothic buildings in Germany.

• Krämerbrücke - The name could be translated as "merchants' bridge" | A bridge with houses built on either side, mostly used for shops. Once this style of bridge was rather common in medieval European cities. However, in many cities such bridges were abandoned due to fire safety concerns or fell victim to the demands of vehicle culture. It is by far Erfurt's most iconic landmark.

• Fischmarkt with its Burgerhouses and town hall.

• Augustinerkloster - St. Augustine's Monastery | Monastery where Martin Luther lived. The main gate of the old university (third oldest German university, shut down in the 19th century and reopened in 1992)

• Anger Main square of the city. Full of stores with the old Post Office building.

• Petersberg Citadel - Zitadelle Petersberg | a historical defence system and a great lookout over the city

Top Muslim Travel Tips for Erfurt

Anger 1 Erfurt Kaufhaus Römischer Kaiser 686-vLh - Anger 1, Kaufhaus Römischer Kaiser

• Egapark A huge and beautiful botanical garden and accessible by the Straßenbahn. Garden lovers can find many things to do and see. Check out for any exhibitions or programms.

• Erfurt Theater Watch an opera or play.

• Stadtpark Take a walk around the town park and see the green side of the city

• City tour Join a historical city tour organised by the Erfurt Tourism Board to have better and entertaining insight into the long lasting history of the town.

• Relax Right at the Wenigemarkt or behind the Krämerbrücke beside the river you can obtain a beautiful look at the old houses standing on the 'bridge'.

Shopping in Erfurt

Erfurter Weihnachtsmarkt - Christmas Market in Erfurt

Shops on the Krämerbrücke offer unique crafts and souvenirs. Around the downtown, along the street Anger, Bahnhofstraße and all the way to the Fischmarkt and Domplatz along Schlösserstraße and Marktstraße you can find almost every apparel shop a European heart desires, from H&M over Mango to Zara, Esprit, C&A and many, many more!

There are also a few shopping malls and other shopping opportunities spread over the whole city:

• Anger 1 Shopping mall directly in the downtown. Offers the opportunity to shop for apparel, electronics, groceries and more on four floors.

• Thüringen-Park Shopping centre approx. 20 min outside the downtown. Shop for apparel, groceries, electronics and more. Post office, drug store and "Sparkasse" (a German bank)also inside. Special events happen around holidays or around special themes (e.g. fashion, sport etc.)

• TEC (Thüringer Einkaufszentrum) Shopping mall 10 minutes outside the downtown. Shop here for groceries or electronics.

Be aware: most shops (besides most grocery stores) are only open until 8pm. Sundays all shops and stores are closed! (Exemption: a few Sundays each year are open for sale)

Halal Restaurants

The Thüringer Bratwurst (famous grilled sausage) comes from Erfurt, and the city has numerous Muslim stalls selling this world-famous delicacy as Halal. Don't miss out to try one or more to sample on the differences.

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Muslim Friendly Hotels

Willy Brandt Erfurt - Willy Brandt ans Fenster

For budget travelers Erfurt offers a few hostels and low hotels or pensions.

• Dorint Hotel am Dom Erfurt - Grand Hotel Erfurt | Modern architecture and good atmosphere.

• Radisson Blu Hotel Erfurt ☎ +49 361 55 10 0
• Erfurter Hof - This hotel was the site of an important event in GDR-FRG relations, when Willy Brandt stayed here during a 1970 visit. The visit was the first meeting of East and West German heads of government, but besides the political deliberations (which provided few concrete results) there was a memorable scene when Erfurters broke through police and Stasi barricades demanding to see Willy Brandt with the words "Willy Brandt ans Fenster" until he ultimately did show himself in the window. Brandt reminisced about this moment as one of the most emotional in his life in his memoirs two decades later. A sign on the roof of the hotel reads "Willy Brandt ans Fenster" in commemoration of the event.

Travel Next

• By train, Weimar is only a quarter of an hour away.
• Jena is just half an hour by train.
• Leipzig is 45 minutes by high-speed train.
• Wander around on near-by Thuringian Forest, on which Thuringia called the "green heart of Germany".
• Halle about 35 minutes away and has some great things to see. The largest city in Saxony-Anhalt is the birthplace of Handel and has a few castles.

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