Kaiserslautern main railway station is less
than a mile from the Fritz Walter Stadium. In fact, you can see the roof
of the stands and the floodlights from the station platforms (although by 2006
the floodlight pylons may have gone as new floodlights along the top of the
stands are being installed).
Local transport
Come into
town by train and you won't need to use any!
Location
Kaiserslautern
is not a large city. The population is only around 100,000. So, as
well as being near to the football ground the station is also near to pretty
much everything else. You can walk into the central pedestrian zone within
10 minutes, and another 10 minutes will bring you to any of the city centre
sights, like the town hall, Fruchthalle or
picturesque Spinnrädl.
Mainline
Services
With Kaiserslautern being near to the French border in the
south-west corner of Germany, rail links to most other areas of the country
require a number of changes, although to Frankfurt and Stuttgart, for instance,
there are a number of direct trains. Connections to or from the 11 other
World Cup venues are as shown on the right:
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| Kaiserslautern main station |
- Frankfurt am Main
(direct or via Mannheim), 1 hr 35 mins or c. 2 hrs
- Suttgart (direct
or via Mannheim), c. 1 hr 40 mins to 2 hrs 10 mins
- Cologne (via
Mannheim) c. 3 hrs 5 mins
- Hanover (direct or
via Mannheim), c. 4 hrs 20 mins
- Leipzig (via Mannheim
& Frankfurt), c. 5 hrs 10 mins
- Munich (via
Mannheim) 4 hrs
- Nuremberg, (via
Frankfurt), c. 4 hrs 10 mins
- Gelsenkirchen (via Mannheim & Essen), c. 3 hrs 50 mins
- Dortmund (via Mannheim), c. 4hrs
- Hamburg (via Mannheim), c. 5 hrs 35 mins
- Berlin Zoo (via Mannheim), c. 5 hrs 45 mins
Map
of station location |