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Leipzig by road
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Mar 17, 2005, 17:05

Leipzig's location in Germany

The road into old East Germany

Since time immemorial Leipzig has had good road connections.  It was the crossing point of two major Roman roads: the Via Imperii, which ran from Venice to the Baltic coast, and the Via Regia, which led from the Rhine to Silesia.

More recently, as the second largest city of the former East Germany, it was somewhat cut off from the west.  Now, however, it is well connected, with the A9 Autobahn in particular, running past Leipzig en route from Berlin to Munich. 

Nevertheless being the only ground in the old East Germany (the stadium in Berlin is in what was West Berlin), Leipzig's Zentralstadion is indeed somewhat isolated from the other World Cup grounds, with only 3 of the other venues less than 200 miles away.  

However, despite some of the distances involved, the German autobahn network provides good links to the other venues.

From Leipzig to other World Cup venues:

World Cup City	Distance in km	Distance in miles	Main motorways en route
Berlin	182	114	A9
Cologne	496	310	A9, A4, A7, A5, A45
Dortmund	477	298	A9, A14, A2, A1, A45
Frankfurt	390	244	A9, A5, A7, A5, A3
Gelsenkirchen	490	306	A9, A14, A2
Hamburg	398	249	A9, A14, A2, A7
Hanover	261	163	A9, A14, A2
Kaiserslautern	488	305	A9, A4, A5, A60, A63
Munich	408	255	A9
Nuremberg	269	168	A9
Stuttgart	466	291	A45, A5, A6, A81

See also Expedia.co.uk for Leipzig hotels, flights and rental cars.