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south Germany (South Germany) is a region in Germany.
Regions
- Baden-Wurttemberg
- Bavaria (Bayern)
Towns
- Augsburg
- Baden-Baden
- Freiburg
- Heidelberg
- Karlsruhe
- Munich (Munich)
- Nuremberg (Nuremberg)
- Regensburg
- Stuttgart
- Wurzburg
Other Destinations
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The Black Forest, the Alps, and the Oktoberfest. the Germany of the postcards.
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Aeroplane
There are a number of important airports in this region:
- Munich Franz Josef Strauss International Airport - The most important airport in Germany after Frankfurt and Düsseldorf
- Stuttgart Echterdingen - Mainly focused on charter flights, but also direct flights to Amsterdam.
- Euro Airport Basel-Freiburg-Mulhouse - Located on French territory, but has excellent access to the southwest corner of Germany and the Black Forest.
- Nuremberg Airport - Regional airport with flights to Amsterdam, among others.
For more information see the sites of KLM or Lufthansa
Train
A number of important railway lines run through southern Germany:
- Mannheim-Stuttgart-Munich: Partially (Mannheim-Stuttgart) as a high-speed line and is used, among other things, by the TGV trains Paris-Stuttgart.
- Munich-Rosenheim-Salzburg/Kufstein:Connection with Austria and the Balkans and Italy
- Frankfurt-Wurzburg-Nürnberg-Passau: The "Spessart-rampe" is the main connection from Germany to Vienna. Between Lohr and Würzburg the ICE trains use the high-speed line Hanover-Würzburg.
- Nuremberg-Munich: Operated as a high-speed line between Nürnberg and Ingolstadt and is part of the Berlin-Munich axis.
From the Netherlands you will usually travel with the ICE to Frankfurt and then transfer to trains to one of the above destinations. There is a direct ICE from Amsterdam to Munich once a day. For information about timetables and tickets, please visit the website of the Deutsche Bahn
Car
From the Netherlands it is best to drive via the German A3, which starts at the border crossing Elten (near Arnhem) and continues to the Austrian border at Passau and passes through Frankfurt, Würzburg and Nürnberg. For Southwest Germany, from Cologne take the A61 to Kreuz Hockenheim and from here follow the A6 via Karlsruhe and Freiburg to Basel. Alternative to this route is: at Kreuz Mutterstadt (A61/A65) follow the A65 towards Landau (Pfalz) then the B9 towards Strasbourg, this becomes a toll-free motorway from the French border via Strasbourg to Basel and you can reach many places from this road cross the Rhine on a provincial road to Baden-Württemberg.
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Regions of Germany |
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Baden-Wurttemberg · Bavaria · Berlin · Brandenburg · Bremen · Hamburg · Hesse · Mecklenburg-West Pomerania · Lower Saxony · North Rhine-Westphalia · Rhineland-Palatinate · Saarland · Saxony · Saxony-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringia |