Alfeld (Leine)

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).

• Fagus Factory

  phone: +49 5181 790
  address: Hannoversche Straße 58
  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.

• Hotel am Schlehberg

  phone: +49 5181 8531 0
  address: Heinrich-Rinne-Straße 37

• Hotelrestaurant "Merlin"

• 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)