Gera

Gera
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Information
Country:	Germany
State:	Thuringia
Population:	102,733 (31 Dec 2006)
Licence plate:	G
Major roads:	A4
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Gera is a German city in Thuringia.

Hitchhiking out

A 4 East to Chemnitz, Dresden, West to Jena, Erfurt, Eisenach

Coordinates: 50.9092, 12.0665
From the city center of Gera at 'Heinrichstraße' take tram number 3 (indicating: 'Bieblach Ost') until the stop 'Berufsakademie'. Walk north over 'Tinzer Straße' and 'Siemensstraße' until you have reached Autobahn A4/E40. You will find an Aral petrol station as well as a Mc Donald's restaurant. From the city center it should not take longer than 15 minutes until you have reached the spot.

North to Berlin, Dessau, Leipzig, south to Munchen

Same spot as before. Make a cardboard sign indicating 'A4' or 'Kreuz Hermsdorf' and stand at the northern (westward) Autobahn entrance. Get off the car two interchanges later at 'Hermsdorf' and walk along the Autobahn and through a forest to Rastanlage Hermsdorf ( Coordinates: 50.8745, 11.8469) on A 9/E51. Alternatively, the driver might directly bring you there. You can conveniently change sides (north/south) through a foottunnel next to the motel and restaurant on the western side of the relais.

'Hermsdorfer Kreuz' is a very good spot to reach both Munich as well as Berlin on A9/E51. It is by car only ten minutes away from Gera.

Public transport

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