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Final report, VIA REGIA „European city- and culture tourism“ 3.3.4 Waterways The VIA REGIA is crossed by several rivers, which are partly accompanied by tourist routes. Thus it’s possible to undertake intensive water hiking on the Werra and Saale or to try out most different varieties of water sports, e.g. on the Saale dams Hohenwarte and Bleiloch. But also other rivers provide the opportunity for wataer hiking, like for instance the Unstrut, Ilm or Gera. River Intersection Settlement Structure Ilm Weimar Ilmtal-cycling trail, water-hiking Saale Jena Water-hiking,tourism infrastructure,Saalebike-hiking-trail Unstrut In parallel to VIA Regia Weiße Elster Tourism Development Destinations of cultural significance (selection) Water-hiking,Unstrutcycling-trail Gera Water-hiking,White water rafting tours,Elster-cycling-trail Gera Erfurt Water-hiking, Geracycling-trail Werra Eisenach Water-hiking, boat rental, Raft rides, Werratal-Cycling-Trail UNESCO World Heritage Sites Weimar,Church “St. Marien”, Stadtilm ,”Oberschloß und Niederburg” Kranichfeld,Bad Sulza (Weintor) “Deutsch-Deutsches Museum” Mödlareuth, Märchenwald Saalburg, Saalfelder Feengrotten, Schloß Heidecksburg, Dornburger Schlösser Wasserburg Heldrungen, Kyffhäuser (Barbarossa),Marienkirche Mühlhausen,Ruine Wendelstein,Arche Nebra Greizer Park und Sommerpalais, Oberes Schloss, unteres Schloss,Kloster Mildenfurth, Otto-Dix-Haus, Hofwiesenpark, Heinrich-Schütz-Haus, Erfurt: Mariendom, Severinkirche, Krämerbrücke, Zitadelle Cyriaksburg, Michaeliskirche UNESCO World Heritage Site Wartburg, Themar, Meiningen,Schloß Gerstungen,Märchenhöhle Walldorf, Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers Image 1: Waterway nearby the VIA REGIA and its tourist infrastructure provision Source: www.thueringen-tourismus.de 3.4 Mobility Thuringia was and is a transit country due to its central situation in Middle Europe and its geomorphologic condition and takes an important role within the entire culture-, economy- and trading area of the VIA REGIA. As well its situation as the relief contributed to the early development of the traffic related infrastructure in Thuringia. The incident succession of the cities Eisenach, Gotha and Erfurt over to Naumburg along the West-East traffic pulse allows for the conclusion that traffic roads have started to develop at a quite early time. This fact, combined with the flourishing trade made up the main reasons for the establishment of today’s cities constituting the Thuringian city cluster along that tie. Page 10 of 73
Final report, VIA REGIA „European city- and culture tourism“ Motorised individual traffic The most important arterial road of the Free State Thuringia and the VIA REGIA is the Bundesautobahn 4, crossing the Free State from West to East nearly parallel to the Thuringian city cluster and linking, as part of the Transeuropean Transportation Network (TEN) the VIA REGIA with the subordinated road axes towards East- and West Europe. Furthermore there are another two road axes crossing the Free State in North-South direction which are namely the Bundesautobahnen 9 and 71. Air traffic The Free State Thuringia offers with the airports Erfurt and Leipzig-Altenburg national and international flight connections. Owing to its cooperated airline Cirrus Airlines, the international airport Erfurt is in the position to offer daily scheduled flights to Munich (codeshare with Lufthansa). From Munich the worldwide Lufthansa flightconnections are available. Charter flights with prime destinations in the South of Europe are offered additionally by Air Berlin. Railway transport The reasons for the well development of the Free State Thuringia in general and the city cluster in particular lie primarily in the geographic situation of Thuringia in the middle of Germany and in the continuous expansion of the location Erfurt as railway junction point, which has been ongoing over the last years. Important long-distance routes, crossing Thuringia include: • ICE route Berlin – Munich with stop in Jena Paradies. The route is served every 2 hours • ICE route Frankfurt (Main) – Dresden with stops in Eisenach, Gotha, Erfurt and Weimar. The route is served every hour • ICE/IC route Düsseldorf – Stralsund with stops in Eisenach, Gotha, Erfurt and Weimar. The route is served every 2 hours. Another future milestone of the railway infrastructure and the connection of Thuringia to Europe will be the expansion and completion of the Trans-European high-speed connection Verona-Munich-Erfurt-Berlin. This will make possible a fast connection to South Europe. For train journeys across Thuringia the state provides, besides the well-developed east-west railway infrastructure (city cluster Thuringia), an adequate regional development based on this „main branch“. All cities of Thuringia with more than 10,000 inhabitants are connected to the railway network. The main axis is represented by the city cluster which is served at least hourly by the DB Regio from Eisenach to Gotha over Erfurt through to Weimar. In the East of Weimar, the capacity of the railway infrastructure is to be improved, as already mentioned in the previous section. Apart from that, it comes to a splitting of the main axis. While one track section forks off towards North in the direction of Apolda (connection possible without change from Eisenach to Apolda), another section connects the cities Jena, Gera and Altenburg. This connection leading from Eisenach to Altenburg requires at least one change in Weimar and Erfurt. Page 11 of 73
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