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# Ingolstadt

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

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## Every way there

- Munich → Ingolstadt 71 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · €8–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/munich-to-ingolstadt) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Munich&to=Ingolstadt)
- Nuremberg → Ingolstadt 81 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · €9–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nuremberg-to-ingolstadt) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nuremberg&to=Ingolstadt)
- Memmingen → Ingolstadt 126 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/memmingen-to-ingolstadt) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Memmingen&to=Ingolstadt)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Ingolstadt, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Ingolstadt has

- Y Scheduled flights Munich (MUC), 53 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

48.763°, 11.425°

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. Ingolstadt Manching Airport
2. Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof
3. 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. Herzogskasten Literally translated "The Duke's Box" this old castle built in 1255 is the oldest secular building in the city.
2. Kreuztor Kreuzstraße & Oberer Graben (City centre).
3. Liebfrauenmünster Kreuzstraße & Konviktstraße (City centre), muenster-moritz.in@bistum-eichstaett.de.
4. Maria de Victoria Church
5. Old City Hall
6. Reduit Tilly and Klenzepark Brückenkopf 2 (south shore of the river Danube).

Do

## Things to do

1. Frankenstein
2. Guided Rathausplatz 2, info@ingolstadt-tourismus.de.
3. Stadttheater Ingolstadt
4. Beer Ingolstadt has two traditional Bavarian beer festivals (think Oktoberfest in small) lasting ten days each.
5. Barthelmarkt Barthelmarktstraße 8, 85077 Manching (leave the city by car to the south via B13 or even better take the special bus line).
6. Adventszauber At Christmas, the historic inner city transforms into a seasonal event.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Viktualienmarkt
2. Wochemarkt
3. Würstelstube
4. Schanzer Rutschn Kanalstraße 1A (City centre), service@schanzer-rutschn.de.
5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingolstadt) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ingolstadt), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Diego Delso (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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