Planning a trip to Berchtesgaden

Getting There

By Air -- The nearest airport is Salzburg Airport (tel. 0662/85800; www.salzburg-airport.com). It has regularly scheduled air service to Frankfurt, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London, and Zürich. Major airlines serving the Salzburg airport are Air Berlin (tel. 0820/737800; www.airberlin.com), Austrian Airlines (tel. 0517/661000; www.aua.com), British Airways (tel. 0179/567567; www.ba.com), and Lufthansa (tel. 0180/5838426; www.lufthansa.com). From Salzburg you can take a 1-hour train ride to Berchtesgaden, changing trains at Freilassing.

By Train -- The Berchtesgaden Bahnhof lies on the Munich-Freilassing line. Fourteen trains a day arrive from Munich with a connection in Freilassing (trip time: 1 1/2 hr.). For information, call tel. 01805/996633 (www.bahn.de). Berchtesgaden has three mountain rail lines -- Obersalzbergbahn, Jennerbahn, and Hirscheckbahn -- going to mountain plateaus around the resorts. For information, contact Berchtesgadener Bergbahn AG (tel. 08652/95810; www.jennerbahn.de) and Obersalzbergbahn AG (tel. 08652/2561; www.obersalzbergbahn.de).

By Bus -- Regional bus service to Alpine villages and towns around Berchtesgaden is offered by RVO Regionalverkehr Oberbayern at Berchtesgaden (tel. 08652/94480; www.rvo-bus.de).

By Car -- Access by car is via the A8 Autobahn from Munich in the north or Rte. 20 from the south. The drive from Munich takes about 2 hours.

Visitor Information

Contact the Kurdirektion, Königsseerstrasse 2 (tel. 08652/9670; www.berchtesgadener-land.info). It's open mid-June to mid-October Monday through Friday 8:30am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 5pm, and Sunday 9am to 3pm; mid-October to mid-June Monday through Friday 8:30am to 5pm, and Saturday 9am to noon.