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'''Germany''' is a great country for hitchhiking. Just make sure you get on the ''Autobahn'' (motorway)! There it is best to get to a ''Raststätte'' (service area) where drivers can legally stop and get from one to another. You will often find maps with the motorways and the service areas along them. On most on ramps you will get also reasonably fast a ride. Just make sure not to end up on a "schnellstrasseSchnellstrasse" (leading to the on ramp), where cars go fast and cannot stop.
In Germany there are no speed limits on many highways. So you might first want to try to get a ride with fast cars before asking truck drivers! Trucks are great during nighttime, but like in [[France]], there are restrictions to when they might drive. In Germany, most trucks aren't allowed to drive on sundays Sundays or public holidays until 22:00.
==License plates==
Very good maps for hitchhiking are '''Michelin Regional''', the orange ones with the numbers 541-546. There are six of them, each covering a different part of Germany.<br />
They are very detailed, on the motorway they show every single gas station, hotel, restaurant, or parking place and they also have town maps for any bigger town within the covered area.<br />
Ratio is 1:350000. You can usually get them in local bookstores for about 8€EUR 8.
==Eat==
* [http://deu.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Deutschland:Trampstellen Hitchhiking spots in Germany], in German, on a GFDL wiki
* [http://www.hitch-hiking.org www.hitch-hiking.org - Information all about hitchhiking (English and German language)]
* [http://www.liftershalte.info/?country=DE Worldmap world map with good places to hitch]
* [http://www.hitchbase.com/ Database with good places in Germany and other countries]
* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Autobahn_1-999.png Overview of highways in Germany]
