Erfurt - Transport

Transport

Erfurt has an Airport and lies on two Bundesstraßen (federal motorways):

• Bundesstraße 4 from Ilmenau in south to Nordhausen in north and
• Bundesstraße 7 from Gotha in west to Weimar in east.

Also there are two Autobahnen crossing each other at Erfurter Kreuz nearby:

• Bundesautobahn 4 from Frankfurt am Main to Görlitz (via Dresden) and
• Bundesautobahn 71 from Würzburg to Sangerhausen (and Halle (Saale) via Bundesautobahn 38).

There have been trams in the city since 1883. There are six tram lines to most of the parts of Erfurt, supplemented by several bus lines. Trolleybuses were in service from 1948 until 1975.

Railways run from Erfurt main station to:

• Berlin via Weimar, Naumburg, Halle (Saale)/Leipzig and Wittenberg,
• Dresden via Weimar, Naumburg, Leipzig and Riesa,
• Chemnitz via Weimar, Jena and Gera,
• Frankfurt am Main via Gotha, Eisenach, Bebra, Fulda and Hanau,
• Würzburg via Arnstadt, Suhl, Meiningen, Bad Neustadt and Schweinfurt,
• Ilmenau via Arnstadt,
• Saalfeld (ICE-connections to Nuremberg and Munich) via Arnstadt,
• Nordhausen via Sondershausen,
• Magdeburg via Sömmerda, Sangerhausen, Staßfurt and Schönebeck and
• Kassel/Göttingen via Gotha, Bad Langensalza, Mühlhausen, Leinefelde-Worbis and Heiligenstadt.

Erfurt Airport offers several seasonal and charter services, but regular flights to major domestic and international destinations are currently missing.