Hannover

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Hannover
Information
Country:
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Germany
State:
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Lower Saxony
Population: 516.166
Licence plate: H
Major roads: A2, A7, A37, A352
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Hannover is the capital of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in Germany. It's a good place for hitchhiking, because two major motorways are crossing each other here: In east-west-direction, there is the A2 going from the Ruhr Area to Berlin, and in north-south-direction, the A7 connecting Hamburg with the south of Germany. On both motorways, there is a big service area, that are easily reachable by tram.

It's also a nice place to stay, for a day or two, with a beautiful old town center, many parks, lakes and forests, and a lot of pubs and nightclubs.

Public transport is very good and tickets are checked very rarely.

Hitching out

West towards Dortmund, Amsterdam

Take a tram to Königsworther Platz. There is a wide road called Bremer Damm, which leads to the motorway. There is only little space to pull over and most of the traffic is local, but at least during rush hours this works fine. At other times, it's probably faster to take the tram to Garbsen, see below. It helps a lot to use a sign saying "A2 - WEST". Try to get a ride at least to Garbsen, just outside of Hannover. There is a huge service area.

East towards Berlin or West towards Dortmund, Amsterdam

<map lat='52.37850717742566' lng='9.721591472625732' zoom='13' view='3' float='right' /> From the town center, take the tram #4 to Garbsen (the last station). Then switch over to bus #126 towards Waldschänke. The last bus station is directly in front of a very big service area. From the central station, the ticket is EUR 2,70 and it will take about 30 to 40 minutes. There is a lot of traffic, you won't have to wait long. If you need to go westwards, just walk left, walk under the bridge and you'll see the service station at the other side.

North towards Hamburg, Bremen or South towards Göttingen, Kassel, Frankfurt

Take the tram #6 direction Messe/Ost and get off at Kronsberg. Turn left into Wülferoder Straße. After ~100 m, the road will head right, but there will be a little path straight on. Follow this path for ca. 1 km. It leads directly to the service area Wülferode on the A7. The tram ticket is EUR 2,10 .

Hitching In

Coming via A2

  • Option 1: Get off at Hannover-Herrenhausen. There is a tram station close to the motorway, where you can get into the town center in 15 minutes for ca. EUR 2.
  • Option 2: Get off at Hannover/Langenhagen. Here you can find a tram station directly next to the ramp towards the highway. Drivers can drop you out directly in front of the tram station, where they also find traffic lights, a small petrol station and the possibility to turn around towards the highway. Detour for the driver: Maybe 500m. Here tram #1 brings you all the way to the Hauptbahnhof in ~ 10 minutes.

Coming via A7

You can ask the driver, if he wants to take little detour over the A37. This will be 12 km more and he will lose about 10 minutes. If he doesn't want that, tell him to drop you at the service area Wülferode. There is a little street leading to a tram station, but you will have to walk for 30 minutes.

Sleep

There are two hostels in Hannover: An independent one for EUR 15/night and one of hostelling international for EUR 25/night.