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=== Northward on {{Autobahn|A7}}/{{E|45}} [[Kassel]], [[Göttingen]], [[Hannover]], [[Hamburg]] and Southward on {{Autobahn|A5}}/{{E|40}} [[Frankfurt]], [[Darmstadt]], [[Basel]] ===
==== City center ====
There are two spots in the city center which can be anything between extremely rewarding and driving no nowhere except to desperation.
* One of them is the '''on-ramp at the central railway station''' (''Hauptbahnhof'' or ''Bahnhof''), which has the advantages of offering a lot of traffic and a shelter from rain (it is underneath a brdge) and the disadvantages of you being somewhat in the dark (due to that same bridge) and relying on rather courageous drivers since there is no hard shoulder for the cars to stop to stop. Drivers can see you for while as they are stopping at the red light not far from you. [[User:Wherever|Andi]] got easy rides from here twice but gave up after more than two hours on another occasion (early morning, though).
* Aother option is the '''on-ramp next to REWE''' at Erlenring. It is similar to the above except that you don't have the benefits and drawback of standing under a bridge. You're quite exposed to the whether (hot in summer, cold in winter), but you have a supermarket nearby. Here, [[User:Wherever|Andi]] also has a 2 in 3 success rate.
==== Rasthof und Hotel Pfefferhöhe ====
A good place to travel in northern or southern direction on A5/E 40 is [http://www.pfefferhoehe.de/ Rasthof Pfefferhöhe] near [[Alsfeld]] on ''Grünberger Straße''. According to googlemaps there is a McD's restaurant at this place as well. If you have a 'Semesterticket' of the University of season ticket (e. g. by being a university student in Marburg), you might want to consider taking the train or bus to Alsfeld, although it should also be possible to get to Alsfeld hitchhiking along the B62 within one hour. According to googlemaps there is a McD's restaurant at [[User:Wherever|Andi]] tried this place as wellseveral times without success except once and highly recommends taking the southern route instead; even if heading North.
==== Aral service station ("Aral-Tankstelle") ====
An easy way to hitchhike hitch-hike out of Marburg in southern direction is the ''Aral - Petrol '' petrol station near ''Südbahnhof '' (the train station in ''Frauenbergstraße''). It doesn't have a lot of traffic but if you are persistent and/or good at talking to people, you will eventually get a ride. To go there, you can either walk (about 30-45 minutes from the city center), or take a bus (lines 1, 4, 6, (7), ...[may not be up to date anymore!]). Get off the bus at "Südbahnhof". Cross the railway and motorway (B3) using the pedestrian bridge, then turn left (South, out of town) and follow the road named "Am Krekel" along the motorway. After about 3 minutes, you can see the blue sign of a petrol station (Aral) on your left. Usually the door in the fence around the service station is open, if not, just climb across it.
This spot is good for heading South (Gießen, Frankfurt, Switzerland, etc.) and West (Cologne, etc) but it is also worth considering when heading East and even North, since the other options for these directions are really poor. In this case, you need to change direction somewhere around Gießen, which is a little tricky but doable.
