Speyer

By road

Speyer is located just south of the Autobahn A61.

By train

The main station has frequent connections to Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Karlsruhe, although it is not directly connected to the high-speed ICE train network. Speyer has two train stations: Speyer main station, and Speyer North-West station.
There is a ticket office at the main station (closed on weekends and holidays).
Speyer has train connections to Germersheim and Karlsruhe (via Heidelberg) every 30 minutes and express trains to Karlsruhe and Mainz every 2 hours.

By bus

Speyer has a city bus system. You can buy tickets from the drivers. The city shuttle (Bus line 565) costs only €1 and is valid
for 1 day only in this bus line. Speyer has also regional bus connections to villages without a train connection.
If you want to go to the Technical Museum, IMAX Dome film theater or to the Sealife you can get a combination ticket. This ticket is valid for outward and return journey with train to Speyer, in the bus line 565 and admission to the Technical Museum or IMAX Dome film theater or Sealife. Ask at the ticket office at your train station. They have it for single persons, groups or families.
The same offer can you get for the technical museum Sinsheim and IMAX Dome film theater Sinsheim.

• Kaiser und MariendomThe romanesque imperial cathedral, with crypta of the Salian Emperors. A UNESCO World Heritage Site

• historic old townVery nice

• JudenbadOldest Mikvah north of the Alps

• AltpörtelA 55 m high gate, part of the former fortification wall

• Gedächtniskirche der ProtestationA protestant church with wooden interior from the 17th century

• Historisches Museum der PfalzHistory museum

• Technik MuseumHall full of old cars and outside a number of aircraft and a small submarine you can walk through. Space exhibition which includes the Russian shuttle.

• SealifeAn aquarium, not as large as the ones in the USA but interesting nether the less. Can however be one long line of people at peak times.

• IMAX Dome film theater

Forget the Kaisertafel. Avoid tourist traps in main street area.

• Maximilian

  address: Korngasse 15

• Zum Alten Engel

  phone: +49 6232 70914
  address: Mühlturmstraße 5

• Zum Goldenen Hirsch

  phone: +49 6232 8774855
  address: Maximilianstraße 90a

• DJH Jugendherberge Speyer

  phone: +49 6232 61597
  address: Geibstraße 5

• Hotel Am Wartturm

  phone: +49 6232 64330
  address: Landwehrstraße 28

• Hockenheim
• Neustadt an der Weinstraße
• Heidelberg