Alfeld (Leine) is in the southern part of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Understand
Get in
Local trains from Hanover, Uelzen and Göttingen call every hour. They take a little over half an hour from Hanover or 40 minutes from Göttingen, where you may connect from high-speed and intercity trains.
Alfeld is located on highway B 3 (Hanover–Göttingen).
Get around
See
- Fagus Factory, Hannoversche Straße 58 (500 m from the station (back exit)), 51.98391°, 9.81222°, +49 5181 790. Su 10:30 - 11:30. Shoelast production site that has been operative since the 1910s. Designed in 1911 by Walter Gropius who would later become a founder of the Bauhaus school and leading representative of modern architecture. The Fagus Factory is one of the first works of modernism in the world and has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011. Guided tour: €2
Do
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- Hotel am Schlehberg, Heinrich-Rinne-Straße 37, 51.97568°, 9.81754°, +49 5181 8531 0.
- Hotelrestaurant "Merlin".
Connect
Go next
- Bad Gandersheim, spa town, 23 km south (40 minutes by train, change in Kreiensen)
- Bad Salzdetfurth, spa town, 20 km northeast
- Einbeck, medieval old town, 25 km south (35–40 minutes by train and bus, change in Einbeck-Salzderhelden)
- Hildesheim, 30 km north (30 minutes by train, change in Elze)