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|state = Saxony
|pop = 512587.000857
|plate = L
|motorways = [[A9 (Germany){{Ade|A9]], [[A14 (Germany)9}} {{Ade|A14]]14}}
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'''Leipzig''' is a the biggest city in the [[Germany|German]] ''Bundesland'' [[Saxony]], and is famous for its alternative scene. Check out Plagwitz, Südvorstadt , the "Eisenbahnstraße" (most dangerous street in Germany according to some newspapers) and Connewitz if you're there.
== Hitching Out ===== North towards [[Berlin]], [[Magdeburg]], South towards [[München]] =Hitchhiking out ==
=== East towards [[Dresden]] = Option 3 ====[[File:Hitching You can take a train from the Main Station, Leipzig-Gohlis, Leipzig-Coppiplatz, Leipzig-Möckern or Leipzig-Leutzsch (Regional Express "RB") that goes to "Weißenfels". Get off at "Rückmarsdorf". From there you walk north straight up to the big street that leads to the {{Ade|9}}. It's about 300 m and the way is intuitive. You can either start from there or follow the street westwards for about 500 m where you find a car seller for Renault. There is plenty of space to stop and pick you up. If people only go to Dölzig take the lift. The spot leipzigat the Busstaion Südstraße (first option) is slightly better.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Spot The great advantage of this option is that you get to Rückmarsdorf very fast. Especially if you live close to one of the trainstops mentioned above you're ready to start hitkchhiking in Leipzig described some 10 minutes (vs. 27 minutes busride from the Main Station in Option 2 for hitchhiking North or South]]Bus #131). Remember that the train only goes once an hour (March 2015: From the Main Station at xx:47 h from track 6).
== Overnight == Option 1 ====Take a tram to "Permoser Str./ Torgauer Str." (3/3E direction "Taucha"; or Bus 90 direction "Paunsdorfcenter"; check here: www.lvb.de/timetable). You walk some 50 meters along "Permoser Straße" (the one without tram tracks) and start hitchhiking from there. Drivers already see you from the traffic light and can stop easily on the "white lines". While heading east you'll also find gas stations to ask people directly. ==== Option 2 ====Take a tram to the stop "Paunsdorfer Alle/Permoser Strasse". Show a sign saying "Dresden" and find a good spot on the street towards east which is close to the motorway junction already. There are several youth hostels in Leipzigmixed reports about this spot. There is one about a mile out of ==== Option 3 ====Take the Tram #15 or #2 from the city. Itcenter towards ''Meusdorf''s easily walkable, just head and get out left from at the train last station's main entrance, which is called Meusdorf. Go 250 Meters further to the next bus stop. This is the best spot to [[Dresden]] via {{Ade|38}} and follow {{Ade|14}}/{{Ade|4}}. === Option 4 ===Onramp to the road round to highway A14, at the rightcrossing of B6 and A14. Keep walking past a head shopThere is no sidestrip, and take a leftbut it is barely possible for cars to stop. [[File:Tzuiop9c onramp Leipzig A14xB6.jpg|thumb|Onramp to A14 at the crossing with B6, east-end of Permoserstraße]] ==== Option 5: service area Muldental ====In direction Dresden you then have a service area called "Muldental" since a lot of people turn of before Dresden so that you can use also the rather local traffic (to Grimma or further). === West towards [[Erfurt]], [[Cologne|Köln]], [[Belgium]] {{Ade|4}} ===[[File:CraigChristmasHitch.jpg|thumb|220px|right |Santa Claus [[User:Halt, Stop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]] hitching bus stop near ''Leipzig West'' ({{Ade|9}}).]]When heading to Belgium highway number 4 is a decent option. There are no comfortable ways (other than luck) to get on a street that runs parallelthe highway to Kassel {{Ade|38}}. Keep walking Though if there's somebody taking you to the end of {{Ade|38}} make sure you get a long lift. There is only one service station [[:de:Rohnetal Nord|Rohnetal Nord]] before reaching the road, then turn left over {{Ade|7}} near [[Göttingen]]/[[Kassel]]. You can take bus 131 from Main Station (Leipzig Hauptbahnhof) or Merseburgerstrasse that will take you all the bridge over way close to the train tracks{{Ade|9}} (alight at B181/Dölzig). After At the bus stop youcan easily get a lift in all directions. All day long heavy traffic yay ;-) [[User:Halt, Stop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]]'ve walked over s waiting times average at 15 mins for direction [[Cologne]] (West) or [[Nuremberg]] (South), 20 mins direction [[Berlin]] (North). First you have to go south on the train tracks{{Ade|9}}, use a sign "A9 Süd", there's an interesting a gas station on the highway 30 km south from Leipzig called "Osterfeld". There you can find a ride going West on the {{Ade|4}} . Ask for people going at least to Erfurt. The only service area with gas station on the {{Ade|4}} before Erfurt is called "Eichelborn" and is located BEYOND Jena.The on-ramp on the side away from Leipzig is slightly more spacious (but not spacious) and there was a little village made up of wendy housesmore traffic when [[User:Guaka|guaka]] was hitching from there on Thursday around noon. Right after getting onto the {{Ade|4}} there's a restaurant (but no gas station) called "Teufelstal" that's okay during the day ([[User:Guaka|guaka]] found a long ride to almost Giessen from there). Walk == Hitching In ==When coming through thisthe {{Ade|14}} it is fairly easy to get off at Leipzig Nord-Ost or Leipzig-Ost, heading where you have possibilities for the driver to turn around and the far cornertram is within 1 km reach. If coming from south-east, lot of drivers go in via {{Ade|38}}. In both cases you can use the directions given in the two optionjs for getting onto {{Ade|14}} direction Dresden. Turn rightOtherwise, and walk parallel with options are the airport where a train tracksis going regularly into the city. You should she an old pub in If traveling the middle of an HLM type housing estate{{Ade|9}}, you can best get off at Leipzig-West. The driver can go off to "Einkaufszentrum", then let you out at Nova Eventis. Make There you can easily get a car to the center just hitchhike anywhere near the exit for Leipzig at the parking with a note of itsign "LE". Hitchhiker [[User:Halt, because it does fantastic foodStop! Reudnitz kommt.|Craig]] would rather recommend to ask drivers going off to ''Leipzig''. Carry The road directions are not separated on that side anymore and there is a perfect spot (bus stop) for about another 200 yardshitching into the city plus drivers can easily make u-turn going back to the highway. [[Korn|Korn]] mentions, then hang that you can catch a leftride from here even in the night pretty easy. The youth hostel If you get off earlier and don´t want to walk that far, there is also a huge keeping area on the right side, after you left, just the highway and underpass the bridge. It is also the first possible point for cars to make a u-turn and get back on a small service roadthe highway.
== Public transport - Riding with and without a ticket ==
Getting caught without a ticket:
* fine is 40 60 EUR, payable by bank transfer in about 10 days
* I don't know if there are special rules if you possess a non-German ID
* If you've got an unstamped ticket, you can argue that you didn't know about validating it - the tourist act usually works
* After 8pm20:00, you usually need to get in buses at the front and show your ticktet ticket to the bus driver == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki =={{nomadwiki}}
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