I need help with information on trip to Rothenberg with Bayern Ticket - for my four teens and I. Can you please tell me which Rothenberg station to get off on? There are several choices and I do not know which lets me off nearest or in the town. Also, I am only coming up with expensive prices on the Bahnhof website - Are all the cheap Bayern ticket deals gone? :o( We would be going from Parsberg to Rothenberg - Both in Bayern.
Thank you, as always, for your tips and help!
Posted by
Berlin, Germany
337 posts
Rothen berg is actually in Hesse. And Rothen burg/Oberlausitz is in Saxony, only Rothen burg ob der Tauber is in Bavaria.
There is only one train station in RodT: "Rothenburg ob der Tauber Bahnhof." Bayern-Tickets (like all Länder-Tickets) never sell out.
Posted by
OP
Germany
116 posts
Thank you Mark - Know the stop is Rothen burg ob der Tauber helps a lot. Thanks again!
Posted by
Berlin, Germany
337 posts
Rothenburg and Rothenberg are of course written as one word, I somehow inserted that extra whitespace when I put in the tags for bold type. Sorry for that confusion.
Posted by
Myrtle Beach, USA
12315 posts
Bayern tickets don't sell out. You can pick them up at the station. They are limited to regional trains, the ones you need to stop at Rothenburg odt (ob der Tauber). They also start after morning rush hour, I think 9 am. It took about ten minutes to walk to the gate from the train stop, and maybe another five to the town hall, but wasn't difficult or confusing. You pay a little extra to buy your pass from a live person at the ticket window so use the machine (it's really easy).
Posted by
OP
Germany
116 posts
I just looked through the bahnhof website and the cheapest I can find is 59E each way and there are few available times left ... with 3 or 4 transfers :o( I am considering driving instead.
I looked forward a few months and can not find any of the cheaper rates (under 20E) that were there for the last few months. Rothenburg - one word - got it - THANK YOU! :o)
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19300 posts
Patty, I told you on another thread that you are not going to find regional fares from Parsberg to Rothenburg odT on the Bahn website. Both towns are in the same transit district (Verkehrsverbund Grossraum Nürnberg, VGN) and the Bahn does not sell tickets online or show fares for entirely regional travel within a single VV (that's V V, Verkehrsverbund, not W). For fares within the VV you have to go to VGN's website, www.vgn.de. The €59 fare shows up because it uses an IC, which is an express train run by the Bahn, so it's not entirely regional. And the €29 Bayern-Ticket will work, it just doesn't show up. BTW, the €59 fare you are talking about is for 5 people. The €19 fare (under 20E) was for a single person.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19300 posts
I know, it's confusing, where are the VV boundaries? There is a website, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Karte_der_Verkehrsverbünde_und_Tarifverbünde_in_Deutschland.png] (can't create a link, damn BBCode) that shows where in Germany all of these V V are. You can also get at any (most) DB ticket counters a map, "Übersichtkarte für den Personenverkehr". On the front is shows all of the rail lines in Germany. On the back is shows the same map with all of the VV superimposed. It also shows what cities are in each VV and major stations and rail lines.
