Gottingen
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By Air
The nearest airports are Hannover (105 km distance) and Paderborn (approx. 90 km distance). Smaller airports are found in Kassel-Calden (about 40 km distance), Hoxter / Holzminden (47 km distance) and Northeim (20 km distance).
By Train
Gottingen rail station lies west of the medieval town centre and provides links to several destinations in Germany.The station opened in 1991 in Gottingen is high-speed line Hannover-Wurzburg and has been a stop of the ICE. The curves for the Intercity Express lead over Kassel to Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart, and partly in Switzerland and Austria, and in the opposite direction to Hannover, Hamburg, Bremen and Wolfsburg, Braunschweig and Berlin. In the old network of Gottingen is located on the north-south main route from Hamburg to Hanover from the north and to Kassel, Frankfurt and Wurzburg in the south (railroad Bebra-Gottingen).The railway line Gottingen-ground field leads to the Weser river and in the Solling (with connections in the direction of Paderborn). Daily services in Goettingen 126 ICE, IC 53 and 236 commuter trains.
By Bus
The Gottingen bus system is run by the GOVB (Gottinger Verkehrsbetriebe).15 city bus lines (lines 1 to 10, 12 to 14 and night bus lines 28 and 29) of the Gottingen Transport Authority (GOVB) and plenty of taxis serving the public transport (LPT) Gottingen.
By Road
Through the western city of Goettingen runs from north to south, the Federal Highway 7 Hanover - Kassel. South of Gottingen was the "triangle Drammetal" the connection to the federal highway 38 in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig. Furthermore, the Federal Roads 3 and 27 lead through Gottingen.
By Bicycle
Often preferred transport in the university town is by bicycle. Due to its largely no hills location of the city core of Gottingen is ideally suited for bicycle traffic. There are numerous cycle paths and parking spaces, including a paid bike station at the station. In 2006, the city of Gottingen, has won the state competition, the bicycle-friendly community in Lower Saxony. Since 2008, one on behalf of the City of edited, "bicycle-flyer" available with traffic rules and street map of downtown bike parking. Through the city leads the line-Heath Cycle Route.
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Gottingen Literary Year
is an international literature Gottingen literary festival in Lower Saxony.It is held annually in Gottingen in ten days in October, following the Frankfurt Book Fair held.The festival was founded in 1992 by Christoph Reisner as a sole proprietorship and since 2006 a GmbH with an eponymous, non-profit booster club.The literary year is a stage for modern literature, from fiction to the international scientific nonfiction.Since its inception, the festival through the development and application of innovative methods for literature should be identified. In 1994 the literary year published the first literature festival in Germany, a live CD.
Stadtisches Museum Gottingen
The Municipal Museum has a collection of Gottingen with respect to the history and cultural history of the city and the region of Gottingen.The collection and the exhibits make the historical and cultural development of the city from the first settlement on the establishment of the Georg-August-University clearly to this day.2009 it was announced that the medieval complex of buildings from "Old Post" and "old coach house" is in danger of collapsing and redeveloped with million effort must be because the lattice structure of woodworm and dry rot has been infected.
The Gottingen chemistry Museum
The Museum preserves and promotes the Gottingen chemistry than 250 years the memory of chemistry at the University of Goettingen.The museum was founded in 1979 on the initiative of the longtime director of the Inorganic Chemistry Institute Oskar Glemser founded.That at the Faculty of Chemistry in Goettingen-Weende museum will be moved by a promotional Gottingen Chemical Society - Museum of chemical e. V. (1st Chairman Herbert W. Roesky supported).The basis of the museum is a collection of historic precision mechanical and optical equipment (for example analytical scales, refractometers, polarimeter ) from the period 1977 to 1900 from the demolished chemical laboratory in the Hospital Road.The museum participates in the awarding of the William Lewicki to promote historical research chemicals donated Liebig-Wöhler Friendship Award.
Junges Theater
In 1957, the young theater from the tangent-founded by Hans-Günther Klein as a small theater room and played on 4 November 1957 with 44 sold-out crowd as the first premiere Urfaust . 1960, drew theater in the Geismar Landstraße 19, which houses the Cinema Lumière is an alternative. Since 1976, the theater of the rooms of the builder uses Rohn built in 1836 and Otfried-Müller-house at hospital road.The young theater is funded by the city and county of Gottingen.Evelyn Hamann and Bruno Ganz began their careers here. The French singer Barbara gave a guest performance in 1964 at the young theater and sang for the first time their famous song Gottingen.
Deutsches Theater
is a drama theater in Goettingen.The DT provides the largest voice Göttinger an extensive repertory theater on four stages: Big house, DT basement studio and the first time since the start of this season on the side stage in the new series "Behind the Iron." The Great House, which seats about 500 spectators offers have, in every season at least ten new productions premiere supplement known and proven pieces, young drama and novel adaptations as well as a musical production into a colorful game plan that an unusually large ensemble of nearly 30 actor denies. Another first is the commitment of a DT-house author: the young prize-winning playwright Haratischwili Nino. She gets to know the city is talking to Gottingen and writes a play that put them in the coming spring and the ensemble on stage. Approx. 450 performances, the theater each season, up to twenty times per season, the DT also a guest at other theaters - in Aschaffenburg, Leverkusen, Fulda and Schweinfurt, the Gottingen ensemble is a regular guest. Almost 2,500 subscribers make up the core audience of the Great House, offered only on Saturdays in the performances exclusively on open sale.
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