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Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt is an independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, Germany, with 142,308 inhabitants.

Plan a trip to Ingolstadt From Munich

Around half a million people live in the metropolitan area. Ingolstadt is the second largest city in Upper Bavaria after Munich and the fifth largest city in Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg and Regensburg. The city passed the mark of 100,000 inhabitants in 1989 and has since been one of the major cities in Germany. After Regensburg, Ingolstadt is the second largest German city on the Danube.

Get in

Getting to Ingolstadt

Munich Airport (MUC IATA) is 70 km (45 mi) south of the city and the closest international airport. By train Munich Central Station (München Hauptbahnhof) is about 35 min by ICE high-speed train or 60 min by local train away from Ingolstadt and the journey costs approximately €17. Since one has to go there first by suburban train (S-Bahn) line S1, which takes approx.

  1. 01
    Ingolstadt Manching Airport
  2. 02
    Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof
  3. 03
    Ingolstadt Nord

    This is a secondary station with mostly regional service.

See

Worth seeing

All the historic buildings are found in or near the historical city centre and are within walking distance of one another.

  1. 01
    Herzogskasten

    Literally translated "The Duke's Box" this old castle built in 1255 is the oldest secular building in the city.

  2. 02
    Kreuztor

    Kreuzstraße & Oberer Graben (City centre).

  3. 03
    Liebfrauenmünster

    Kreuzstraße & Konviktstraße (City centre), muenster-moritz.in@bistum-eichstaett.de.

  4. 04
    Maria de Victoria Church
  5. 05
    Old City Hall
  6. 06
    Reduit Tilly and Klenzepark

    Brückenkopf 2 (south shore of the river Danube).

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Frankenstein
  2. 02
    Guided

    Rathausplatz 2, info@ingolstadt-tourismus.de.

  3. 03
    Stadttheater Ingolstadt
  4. 04
    Beer

    Ingolstadt has two traditional Bavarian beer festivals (think Oktoberfest in small) lasting ten days each.

  5. 05
    Barthelmarkt

    Barthelmarktstraße 8, 85077 Manching (leave the city by car to the south via B13 or even better take the special bus line).

  6. 06
    Adventszauber

    At Christmas, the historic inner city transforms into a seasonal event.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Viktualienmarkt
  2. 02
    Wochemarkt
  3. 03
    Würstelstube
  4. 04
    Schanzer Rutschn

    Kanalstraße 1A (City centre), service@schanzer-rutschn.de.

  5. 05
    AVUS

    In the visitors area (Forum) of the car manufacturer Audi, the biggest employer in the city, is the AVUS restaurant.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Diego Delso (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.