Visitors information

From Frankfurt airport to Saarbruecken central station

Saarbruecken has its own airport, but for flights from outside of Germany, Frankfurt airport is recommended. If you arrive at Frankfurt airport, there are two different railway stations at the airport. You can either take a long-distance train (short: ICE or IC) from Frankfurt to Saarbruecken, departing from Fernbahnhof (short: Fernbf), or you take a regional train (short: RE) from Regionalbahnhof (short: Regionalbf). Check the homepage of the Deutsche Bahn for train connections from Frankfurt Flughafen to Saarbruecken Hbf (Hbf = central station). Regional trains are recommended since there are non-stop connections available, but you can take both kinds of trains. Tickets are available from the machines on the platforms or near the stations. 

From the central station to the university

If you want to go from the central station directly to the university, just take a bus from the bus station right at the exit of the train station. The busses 102, 112 and 124 connect the central station with the university without having to change. Another opportunity is to take the tram S1 (direction Brebach or Kleinblittersdorf) to the stop “Johanniskirche”, there please change to the bus stop “Rathaus”. From here the busses 102 and 111 (direction Dudweiler) go directly to the university.
 

From the central station to your hotel and to the university

Usually our visitors stay in hotels which are situated in or near the city center of Saarbruecken. All hotels are reachable within a walking distance from the central station (about 1 km) or with the tram S1 to the stops “Johanniskirche” or “Landwehrplatz”. The busses to the university start at the bus stop “Rathaus” (next to the city hall). The busses 102 and 111 (direction Dudweiler) go directly to the university.

Hotels around the stops “Johanniskirche” and “Rathaus” are Hotel Hamburg, Hotel Leidinger, Hotel Madeleine and Motel One. To make orientation easier, we have included a map of the city.

How to find bus connections and how to find us on the campus

One ride costs 2,90 Euro p.p. You can buy the tickets in the bus from the driver or at the blue ticket machines. The one way tickets are immediately valid, so do not buy several of them at once. There are also weekly and monthly tickets.

Here is a link to a web page (in German) where you can check some bus connections and here is another one (also available in a French version). But the best webpage to check the bus connections is still the one of the Deutsche Bahn (although it is in principal mainly for train connections). Search for connections from "Johanneskirche, Saarbruecken" to "Universitaet Mensa, Saarbruecken".

The bus stops three times on the campus. Once right before the main gate, then again on the main square of the university and the third time at the mensa. This is where you should get off the bus. Continue in the direction the bus goes and turn to the right after about 50m. The building on the right hand side is the math building, number E2 4. Most of our offices are on the first floor; Roland Speicher's office is 201; Moritz Weber's is 310.

Here is a link to an interactive map of the campus. And here is a link to a pdf version of it. The capital letter H stands for Haltestelle = bus stop.