165
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
|motorways = [[A5 (Germany)|A5]]
}}
'''Freiburg im Breisgau''' is a student-city in the South of [[Germany]]. It is very close to the French border, and not far away from [[Switzerland]] as well. (It's the biggest Freiburg in [[Germany]], there is also [[Freiburg/Elbe]] and [[Freiburg im Üechtland]] in [[Switzerland]].)
Freiburg might be a good stopover for a longer trip in [[Europe]] because its quite central and wasy easy to exit and to leave. Another advantage is that it's easy to find free [[http://www.bewelcome.org free accomodation] ] via [[hospitality exchange network]]s in Freiburg.
Freiburg is a nice student town with around 220.000 inhabitants - – 40.000 of them are students. So you definitely gonna find someone to drink a beer with.
In September 2007, the German hitchhiking club [[abgefahren e.V.]] hold his first gathering near '''Freiburg''' and also published the first (un)official German hitchhiking-spot in '''Freiburg'''.
== Hitching Out ==
=== North, South towards [[A5 (Germany)|A5]], [[France]], [[Basel]] ([[Switzerland]]), [[Karlsruhe]] ===
<map lat='47.9909987154148' lng='7.84449577331543' zoom='15' view='03' float='right' />
Take a tram till "Holzmarkt". Line 2,3 or 5 are heading there. Walk from the stop outside of the city towards direction of the river ''Dreisam''. There you are turning right and at the traffic light you can ask the cars for your destination.
* For heading north the next gas station is "Mahlberg" right before [[Offenburg]]. For heading south there is no gas station before the highway leads to [[France]] ([[Muhlhouse]], [[Besancon]], [[Lyon]]) but there is one before [[Basel]] ([[Switzerland]]).
* If you want to go to France it might be better to get to the ramp ''Freiburg Nord''. You can get there with tram line 2 towards ''Zähringen'', get out at the last station. From there it's a 400m 400 meters walking to the spot. Try to get a ride from there to the [[A5 (Germany)|A5]] direction south. This way you pass by the service station "Schauinsland" which is the last one before [[France]].
You can as well wait after the crossroad with a sign. (I don't recommend that, but if you don t speak German make sign "A5 -> KA ([[Karlsruhe]]) or BS ([[Basel]]".)
== Hitching In ==
It's not recomended, if you are coming from north to get off at "Schauninsland" gas station. But if you get stuck there you can walk in the next village(Hochdorf) and take the bus 25 or 36 to freiburg will take about 40 min to center. Try to find someone in [[Mahlberg]], [[Baden Baden]] or [[Bruchsal]] who is going straight there. The highway doesn't go directly through the city so driver are unlikely to go 15 km extra just to drop you off in the city if they want to continue their trip. If you are coming from the south you can get off at the "Breisgau" service station. There shouldn't be a problem with finding someone who is going into town.
Another, though not the best solution, is to get off at exit 61 "Freiburg Nord" on the A5. The driver can make U-Turn and get back on the motorway (well, if it's not a truck). There's no really much room to stop, so you'll have to ask people stopping on the red light, most of them will be going to the city. Better don't go there if you're not alone, as you'll have to hop in very quickly.
