Journey to the Sauerland

As the No. 1 recreational region in NRW, the Sauerland is easy to reach from almost anywhere thanks to its good connections to the bus and rail network and numerous highways. So that you don't lose a minute of your precious vacation time, we have described the shortest routes here:

Arriving by by car:

• from the north: highway A1/A45 Hamburg >> direction Frankfurt
• from the south: Autobahn 5 Frankfurt/Stuttgart or Autobahn 45 Frankfurt/Würzburg >> direction Gießen
• from the east: highway 44 Kassel/Dortmund
• from the west: Autobahn 44 Dortmund/Kassel, then take the Autobahn A46
  Note: Autobahn 45 (Sauerlandlinie) remains closed at Lüdenscheid until further notice due to bridge damage

Arrival by by train:

• the "Ruhrtal-Bahn", Hagen-Kassel line
• the "Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn" line Hagen - Altena - Werdohl - Finnentrop - Altenhundem - Siegen
• ICE and IC/EC connecting stations for the Sauerland region are Dortmund and Hagen in the west, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe in the east and Frankfurt in the south.

For information on rail connections, please contact:
Regionalverkehr Ruhr-Lippe GMBH: rlg.de
Zweckverband Personennahverkehr Westfalen-Süd: zws.de
Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft GmbH: mvg.de

Onward travel by bus is of course possible - you can get information on this by calling 01806 504030 (20 cents/connection from landlines and a maximum of 60 cents/connection from mobile networks).

With the FlixBus to the Sauerlandand:

In combination with the FlixBus and FlixTrain offer, you can also travel from larger cities such as Berlin or Kassel to the Sauerland in a cheap and relaxed way. It is also often possible to take your bicycles with you. Once you arrive in the Sauerland, the FlixBus stops at numerous vacation resorts.

Timetable and travel times:

FlixBus runs twice daily on the Berlin - Sauerland route. To Braunschweig and Göttingen there are up to 3 daily services. The journey time from Berlin to Braunschweig is 2 ½ hours, Göttingen can be reached in around 4 hours. To Kassel, the green FlixBus takes 5 ¾ hours, Marsberg and thus the first stop in Sauerland is reached in 6 ¾ hours. The total journey time to the last stop in Neheim is around 8 ¼ hours. All information about the timetable for line 035 Berlin - Sauerland can be found at: www.flixbus.de