Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 450 3450;
www.augsburger-puppenkiste.de
; Spitalgasse 15)
The celebrated puppet
theatre holds performances of modern and classic fairy tales that even non-German
speakers will enjoy. Advance bookings essential.
Information
Post Office
(Halderstrasse 29)
At the Hauptbahnhof.
Tourist Office
( 502 070;
www.augsburg-tourismus.de
; Rathausplatz; 9am-6pm
Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm Sat, 10am-3pm Sun)
Getting There & Away
Bus
The Romantic Road Europabus stops at the Hauptbahnhof and the Rathaus.
Car & Motorcycle
Augsburg is just off the A8 northwest of Munich.
Train
Augsburg rail connections:
Füssen
€19.20, two hours, every two hours
Munich
€12.20 to €20, 30 to 45 minutes, three hourly
Nuremberg
€34, one hour, hourly
Ulm
€16.40 to €23, 45 minutes to one hour, three hourly
Landsberg am Lech
08191 / POP 28,100
Lovely Landsberg am Lech is often overlooked by Romantic Road trippers on their town-
hopping way between Füssen to the south and Augsburg to the north. But it's for this very
absence of tourists and a less commercial ambience that this walled town on the River
Lech is worth a halt, if only a brief one.
Landsberg can claim to be the town where one of the German language's best-selling
books was written. Was it a work by Goethe, Remarque, Brecht? No, unfortunately, it was
Hitler. It was during his 264 days of incarceration in a Landsberg jail, following the 1923
beer-hall putsch, that Adolf penned his hate-filled
Mein Kampf
, a book that sold an estim-
ated seven million copies when published. The jail later held Nazi war criminals and is
still in use; the rights to the text of
Mein Kampf
are owned by the Free State of Bavaria,
but these run out in 2015, 70 years after the author's demise.
